Review Article

Challenges and Issues in Multisensor Fusion Approach for Fall Detection: Review Paper

Table 4

Wearable/ambient sensor fusion.

Article Year Basis Deployed sensors Deployed algorithm Evaluation Performance

Aguilar et al. [49] 2014 Sensor fusion via evidential network for fall detection RFPAT [49], GARDIEN [49]Evidential network Dempster-Shafer Theory formalism Data recorded at Telecom SudParis SE: 94%

Cavalcante et al. [50] 2012 Evidential network for medical data fusion in remote monitoring Wearable sensor, infrared sensors, sound analyzer Dempster-Shafer Theory Data recorded at Telecom SudParis SE: 93.94%

Della Toffola et al. [51] 2011 Combine sensor networks and home robot to improve fall detection Body-worn sensors, ambient sensors, home robot Future work, flooding time synchronization protocol for nodes Packet transmission delays power consumption Built system suitable for fall detection

McIlwraith et al. [52] 2010 Wearable and ambient sensor fusion for human motion detection Accelerometer (e-AR), video sensors, gyroscope Spatial/temporal HMM 5 activities performed by volunteers in a constrained manner Accuracy increase: Over vision system: 6.4%
Over gyroscope: 17.2%

Kepski et al. [53] 2012 Fall detection using Kinect and accelerometer Kinect, accelerometer, gyroscope Fuzzy inference system Intentional falls and ADLs performed by 3 volunteers Fused sensors proved sufficiency to implement reliable fall detection system

Leone and Diraco [41] 2008 Multisensor approach for fall detection in home environment 3D camera, wearable acc-ter, microphone Multithreading approach with fuzzy logic technique under development 13 volunteers perform 450 events including 210 falls 3D vision alarm: 81.3%
Acc-ter alarm: 98%
Audio alarm: 83%

Alemdar et al. [54] 2010 Multimodal fall detection within WeCare framework Accelerometer, embedded cameras, RFID tags Decision fusion mechanism Volunteer performing ADL Falls are successfully distinguished from ADL

Cagnoni et al. [55] 2009 Fall detection for assisted technologies applications Accelerometer, video camera PSO for visual data HTM for acceleration fusion algorithms multiple classifier sets fuzzy logic decision trees Accelerometer: continuous flow of real-life events simulation
Video sensor: limited set of image sequences
Joint system is guaranteed to provide a good level of fault-tolerance

Doukas and Maglogiannis [56] 2011 Fall detection utilizing motion, sound, and visual perceptual componentsTracking camera, accelerometer, microphones Semantic rules based on semantic web rule language (SWRL) 2 male volunteers performing experimental protocol Utilization of rules-based evaluation minimizes false positives to zero