Information and Communications Technology and Policy

Information and Communications Technology and Policy

Information and Communications Technology and Policy ›› 2023, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (9): 67-73.doi: 10.12267/j.issn.2096-5931.2023.09.010

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Fall detection based on wireless channel state information

CHEN Tingwei1, LI Yang2, HAN Kaifeng2, LI Xiaoyang1, LI Hang1, ZHU Guangxu1   

  1. 1. Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Shenzhen 518055, China
    2. China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Beijing 100191, China
  • Received:2023-07-21 Online:2023-09-25 Published:2023-09-27

Abstract:

As China officially enters into an aging society, falls of the elderly have been concerned in recent years. To deal with this problem, wireless sensing (such as Wi-Fi sensing) is used to detect and alarm falls in time. The realization of wireless sensing technology is based on the reflection characteristics of electromagnetic waves. The signals generated by the transmitter are reflected by various objects in the indoor environment to produce different propagation paths, and finally superimpose together at the receiving end. Those signals carry information such as the orientations and activity states of the objects. By establishing a connection between the received signals and the states of the actual objects, the objects can be positioned and their actions can be identified. This paper studies the fall detection based on wireless channel state information, and verifies the feasibility of the scheme by constructing practical experimental environments.

Key words: fall detection, wireless sensing, channel state information

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