Privacy-aware IoT Fall Detection Services For Aging in Place
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| author | Lakhdari, Abdallah Li, Jiajie Abusafia, Amani Bouguettaya, Athman |
| author_facet | Lakhdari, Abdallah Li, Jiajie Abusafia, Amani Bouguettaya, Athman |
| contents | Fall detection is critical to support the growing elderly population, projected to reach 2.1 billion by 2050. However, existing methods often face data scarcity challenges or compromise privacy. We propose a novel IoT-based Fall Detection as a Service (FDaaS) framework to assist the elderly in living independently and safely by accurately detecting falls. We design a service-oriented architecture that leverages Ultra-wideband (UWB) radar sensors as an IoT health-sensing service, ensuring privacy and minimal intrusion. We address the challenges of data scarcity by utilizing a Fall Detection Generative Pre-trained Transformer (FD-GPT) that uses augmentation techniques. We developed a protocol to collect a comprehensive dataset of the elderly daily activities and fall events. This resulted in a real dataset that carefully mimics the elderly's routine. We rigorously evaluate and compare various models using this dataset. Experimental results show our approach achieves 90.72% accuracy and 89.33% precision in distinguishing between fall events and regular activities of daily living. |
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| spellingShingle | Privacy-aware IoT Fall Detection Services For Aging in Place Lakhdari, Abdallah Li, Jiajie Abusafia, Amani Bouguettaya, Athman Signal Processing Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Human-Computer Interaction Fall detection is critical to support the growing elderly population, projected to reach 2.1 billion by 2050. However, existing methods often face data scarcity challenges or compromise privacy. We propose a novel IoT-based Fall Detection as a Service (FDaaS) framework to assist the elderly in living independently and safely by accurately detecting falls. We design a service-oriented architecture that leverages Ultra-wideband (UWB) radar sensors as an IoT health-sensing service, ensuring privacy and minimal intrusion. We address the challenges of data scarcity by utilizing a Fall Detection Generative Pre-trained Transformer (FD-GPT) that uses augmentation techniques. We developed a protocol to collect a comprehensive dataset of the elderly daily activities and fall events. This resulted in a real dataset that carefully mimics the elderly's routine. We rigorously evaluate and compare various models using this dataset. Experimental results show our approach achieves 90.72% accuracy and 89.33% precision in distinguishing between fall events and regular activities of daily living. |
| title | Privacy-aware IoT Fall Detection Services For Aging in Place |
| topic | Signal Processing Artificial Intelligence Computers and Society Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22462 |