Anti-fall: A non-intrusive and real-time fall detector leveraging CSI from commodity WIFI devices

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Abstract

Fall is one of the major health threats and obstacles to independent living for elders, timely and reliable fall detection is crucial for mitigating the effects of falls. In this paper, leveraging the fine-grained Channel State Information (CSI) and multi-antenna setting in commodity WiFi devices, we design and implement a real-time, non-intrusive, and low-cost indoor fall detector, called Anti-Fall. For the first time, the CSI phase difference over two antennas is identified as the salient feature to reliably segment the fall and fall-like activities, both phase and amplitude information of CSI is then exploited to accurately separate the fall from other fall-like activities. Experimental results in two indoor scenarios demonstrate that Anti-Fall consistently outperforms the stateof- the-art approach WiFall, with 10% higher detection rate and 10% less false alarm rate on average.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInclusive Smart Cities and e-Health - 13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015, Proceedings
EditorsJacques Demongeot, Antoine Geissbuhler, Bessam Abdulrazak, Mounir Mokhtari, Hamdi Aloulou
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages181-193
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319193113
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015 - Geneva, Switzerland
Duration: 10 Jun 201512 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9102
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2015
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityGeneva
Period10/06/1512/06/15

Keywords

  • Activity recognition
  • CSI
  • Fall detection
  • Wifi

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