Philips North America LLC

Joe Edwards

Richard John Heaton

Vikram Devdas

Dan Erichsen

One variation of a method for detecting and responding to falls by residents within a facility includes: at a wearable device worn by a resident, writing sensor data from a sensor integrated into the wearable device to a buffer, inputting sensor data into a compressed fall detection model&#x2014;defining a compressed form of a complete fall detection model and stored locally on the wearable device&#x2014;to detect a fall event at a first time, and transmitting a corpus of sensor data from the buffer and a cue for confirmation of the fall event to a local wireless hub in response to detecting the fall event; and, remotely from the wearable device, inputting the corpus of sensor data into the complete fall detection model&#x2014;stored remotely from the wearable device&#x2014;to confirm the fall event and dispatching a care provider to assist the resident in response to confirming the fall event.

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