Cam_Fall
TECHLAUNCHER 2024
Introduction
According to the US CDC, falls are the leading cause of injury for adults ages 65 years and older. Over 14 million, or 1 in 4 older adults report falling every year. Each year about $50 billion is spent on medical costs related to older adult falls.
A fall may cause Traumatic Brain Injury, which is fatal for older people. After falling, the time becomes more important to save lives.So it is necessary to save precious time for the professional aids.
Falls among adults aged 65 and older are common, costly, and preventable. How to make efforts to make falling unfatal and less expensive, which gives us motivation to find out.
The activities in this project are divided into two parts based on semesters.
> During the first semester, the team will conduct software requirement analysis, design, architecture, documents, and research reports on audio processing and action classification.
> In the second semester, the team continues to complete the full development of the final product, perform software testing.
Sound Detection
The camera catches the sharp sound around it
Image Caputure
The camera moves to get the image where the sound is
AI Image Analysis
Using AI to analyse the picture
Notify Caregivers
The camera will alert caregivers if someone falls
Development Tools
