Method and system for the derivation of human gait characteristics and detecting falls passively from floor vibrations

摘要: The gait monitor system and method provides various basic parameters including step count, cadence, duration, in addition to its ability distinguish between normal, limping shuffling modes, as well determine falls. Moreover, this may be provided with additional sensors, e.g. beam break at the beginning end of a corridor estimate average walking velocity (with distance beams known or determined); enables calculation characteristics such length stride length. These can additionally used detect anomalies other diagnostic information.