A Low Cost Hardware Based Fall Detection and Call for Help System for Elderly Person

Context: Aging is common for a Human being. Especially an old aged person needs attention due to weakening in their physical capability. Fall is one of the major problems faced by elderly persons during their daily day activities. Falls are caused due to accident, loss of consciousness. Fall poses a serious impact on health issues of an elderly person. Fall detection is one of the necessary actions to be taken. So the fall detection system is needed. Thereby here the development of the system includes methodology based on sensor-video integration technology. The event of fall occurrence can be detected using the sensor as well as the camera and the acquired information is sent as messages and live video feed to the user in case of emergency through making use of Wi-Fi technology.