Autonomous fall monitor using an altimeter with opposed sensing ports
First Claim
1. A communicator for autonomous monitoring, detecting and tracking of movement and orientation of a wearer'"'"'s body or portion of a wearer'"'"'s body, comprising:
- a device configured to monitor at least one of a translational movement and a rotational movement of the wearer'"'"'s body; and
an altimeter including at least one pair of high sensitivity sensors having opposed sensing ports configured to measure changes in elevation of the wearer'"'"'s body, the altimeter is further configured with the opposed sensing ports to cancel inertial forces sensed by the opposed sensing portsto reduce an effect of sensor noise,a storage configured to collect and store data for synchronous communication to a transceiver, the data comprising at least one of;
date data, time data, location data, biometric measurement data and alert condition data, andwherein the alert condition is determined based on at least one of the translational movement of the wearer'"'"'s body, the rotational movement of the wearer'"'"'s body, and changes in elevation of the wearer'"'"'s body or portion of the wearer'"'"'s body, the alert condition comprising at least one of;
a hard fall event, a soft fall event, a susceptibility to a fall, and a near fall event.
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Abstract
A system, a method and an apparatus for autonomous monitoring, detecting and tracking of at least one of movement and orientation of a body or portion of a body. The apparatus comprises a device configured to monitor the translational movement and/or rotational movement of the body; and an altimeter including at least one pair of opposed high sensitivity sensors configured to measure changes in height of the body. An alert condition is determined based on the translational and/or rotational movement of the body and changes in height of the body or portion of the body. The alert condition may comprise a hard fall event, a soft fall event, a susceptibility to a fall, or a near fall event.
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17 Claims
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1. A communicator for autonomous monitoring, detecting and tracking of movement and orientation of a wearer'"'"'s body or portion of a wearer'"'"'s body, comprising:
a device configured to monitor at least one of a translational movement and a rotational movement of the wearer'"'"'s body; and an altimeter including at least one pair of high sensitivity sensors having opposed sensing ports configured to measure changes in elevation of the wearer'"'"'s body, the altimeter is further configured with the opposed sensing ports to cancel inertial forces sensed by the opposed sensing ports to reduce an effect of sensor noise, a storage configured to collect and store data for synchronous communication to a transceiver, the data comprising at least one of;
date data, time data, location data, biometric measurement data and alert condition data, andwherein the alert condition is determined based on at least one of the translational movement of the wearer'"'"'s body, the rotational movement of the wearer'"'"'s body, and changes in elevation of the wearer'"'"'s body or portion of the wearer'"'"'s body, the alert condition comprising at least one of;
a hard fall event, a soft fall event, a susceptibility to a fall, and a near fall event.- View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A device including a transceiver unit for autonomous monitoring, detecting and tracking of at least one of orientation movement, translational movement and rotational movement of a wearer'"'"'s body, comprising:
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a pair of high sensitivity sensors having opposed sensing ports configured to measure changes in elevation of the wearer'"'"'s body, the pair of high sensitivity sensors further configured to cancel out an inertial force effect of a measurement; the transceiver unit configured to receive alert status data from a communicator, the alert status data based, at least in part, on the measurement; a first storage configured to collect and store data for synchronous communication to the transceiver unit, the data comprising at least one of;
date data, time data, location data, biometric measurement data and alert condition data, anda second storage configured to hold recipient information associated with the communicator, wherein the pair of high sensitivity sensors are further arranged and configured to reduce an effect of sensor noise, and wherein the transceiver unit is further configured to notify one or more recipients based on the alert status data, the alert status data comprising at least one of;
a hard fall event, a soft fall event, a susceptibility to a fall, and a near fall event. - View Dependent Claims (11)
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12. A method for autonomously monitoring, detecting and tracking movements of a wearer'"'"'s body, comprising:
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monitoring at least one of a translational movement and a rotational movement of the wearer'"'"'s body or portion of it; arranging at least one pair of high sensitivity sensors having opposed sensor ports configured to measure changes in elevation of the wearer'"'"'s body; averaging out sensed data recorded by the opposed sensor ports to cancel inertial forces sensed by the opposed sensing ports; measuring a change in elevation of the wearer'"'"'s body or a portion of the wearer'"'"'s body using the averaged out sensed data recorded by opposed sensor ports; storing other data for synchronous communication to a transceiver, the other data comprising at least one of;
date data, time data, location data, biometric measurement data and alert condition data, anddetermining an alert event based on the at least one of the translational movement of the wearer'"'"'s body, the rotational movement of the wearer'"'"'s body, and the change in the elevation of the wearer'"'"'s body or portion of it, the alert event comprising at least one of;
a hard fall event, a soft fall event, a susceptibility to a fall, and a near fall event. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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