Fall Tracker

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“Fall Tracker” is a modern and unique phone application that was designed to help hospitals and nursing houses personnel to monitor and control senior and with specific medical needs people.

This program monitors body movements and immediately reports of a rapid fall down which is extremely helpful in observation over charges, whose movements are hampered or those who require a regular medical routine each day.

Tracking system can be easily installed into your mobile phone with Operational System Android. It includes two sensory devices that accurately control and report person's movements, they are:

  • gyroscope – a device that measures and maintains orientation by output, input and spin axes
  • accelerometer – a device that measures proper acceleration.

Application sends out alert immediately after the fall down and if an alert signal isn't turned off in 5 seconds it will send an alert message to the recipient (e.g. doctor or nurse's phone).

This excellent software provides assistance to facilitate daily functions and improve quality of life.

Toolchain:
Source Code Managers: Git

Integrated Development: Eclipse

Programming Languages: Java

Issue and Bug Tracking systems: Redmine

Unit testing Frameworks: JUnit

Operating System: Android 2.1.

Methodologies: Test Driven Development