myHalo – Fall detection device for senior citizens

When elderly people lose balance and fall, it causes serious damage to their bodies. Unlike younger bodies that recuperate, elderly bodies find it difficult to do so. After a fall, most elderly people who have attained old age lie there distraught and unable to find their feet again. Numerous cases as these are being reported from all across the world on a consistent basis.

tel tron and halo advanced fall detection gadget

The myHalo system is a product that sends an automatic alert to concerned people when old people fall. Without needing to push a button to send an alert, old people can manage to get help in quick time. Tel-Tron technologies, which is the senior citizen market has partnered with Halo Monitoring has manufactured this fall-detection product based on their CompanionOne® wireless platform technology.

The myHalo device has tiny sensors designed to detect a fall. It measures the gait movement and ground level orientation of a wearer. myHalo constantly monitors for a potential danger of a fall while searching for data coming from the physical movements of the person.

Halo Monitoring invested years into finding these path-breaking algorithms that define how the product works. By observing old people and how they fall, they built a database of such movements, and the triggers that came along with it.

Recent tests have returned positive results for the device. Almost 99 percent accuracy was reported. This device is a welcome product for elderly citizens who suffer from imbalance and falls.

U.S. Department of Health has found that almost three-fourth of accidental deaths in elderly people are the result of a fall. It was also found that if they were rescued and given medical attention within an hour, such fatalities would have been reversed.

myHalo sure seems a unique product. Based on sound research driven studies, the product is absolutely needed for every living old person in the world.

Via: PRWeb