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Real-time monitoring of the movement of elderly people can provide information about an individual's physical movement, degree of functional ability, and general level of activity. This paper describes the real-time monitoring of fall detection in elderly persons using acceleration data. We used a necklace tag device consisting of a Ultra high frequency (UHF) low-power RF system-on-chip and a triaxial...