CNN-LSTM Combined Network for IoT Enabled Fall Detection Applications

An accidental fall could do a great damage to the health of elderly. Failure to provide timely assistance after a fall may cause injury or even death. In this paper, a fall detection algorithm based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) combined network is proposed, which makes full use of the powerful feature extraction ability of CNN and the excellent time series processing ability of LSTM. Data required by the algorithm is only the resultant acceleration from a low cost three-axis acceleration sensor. The experimental results show that compared with the algorithms based on Support Vector Machine (SVM) and CNN, the proposed algorithm has higher detection accuracy with a small data volume, which is very suitable for Internet of Things (IoT) enabled fall detection applications.

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