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Autonomous fall monitor using an altimeter with opposed sensing ports

  • US 9,704,369 B2
  • Filed: 06/18/2014
  • Issued: 07/11/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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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 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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