Doppler Analysis Based Fall Detection Using Array Antenna

Abstract

The number of elderly people who live alone is increasing in many countries. Furthermore, many of their accidents occur at home. Hence, it is an urgent demand for a system monitoring their activities to detect accidents indoor such as falling. In conventional systems of fall detection using array antennas, falling after standing still can be detected with high accuracy by leveraging the features indicating the change of radio wave propagation. However, it is difficult to detect falling after walking correctly. In this paper, to improve fall detection accuracy including falling after walking, we propose an accurate fall detection system by leveraging the features indicating the change of Doppler signals during human activities in detail. Analyzing Doppler signals is useful to detect falling since they are observed when a radio wave reflects by moving objects. We conducted experiments in actual rooms to demonstrate that the proposed method can detect falling after both standing and walking with high accuracy.