Smart Fall Detection and Protection for Elderly People

Abstract

The elderly people require attention because of their health conditions and in many cases falls lead to many critical consequences. When an elderly person falls results in physical injury and is not possible for them to request for help at that condition. The main intention of this project is to prepare a fall detection and protection system for the elderly people at an affordable cost. In that process a wearable airbag is developed which inflates when the fall occurs. MEMS Accelerometer is used for the fall detection. The processing of data is done by the Microcontroller based on the input given by accelerometer sensor. When the fall is detected Microcontroller triggers the air pump which inflates the airbag. The Microcontroller (NODE MCU) consists of a built in Wi-Fi module by which the entire data were presented to cloud platform.