How can I use the accelerometer to detect a user falling?

[justin15j]

I would like to monitor the accelorometer of a user fitbit with my mobile device to detect something like a person falling.

[SunsetRunner]

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Web-API/Get-the-raw-accelerometer-data/m-p/388498

[curtine]

I developed a Fall Monitor App as part of my final year project that did exactly this, it got eventually pulled from the play store because I didn't continue to maintain, I had thousands of users and 4/5 stars from a hundred ratings.

And I have umpteen emails from users from new features, I open sourced it since I could not commit to completing and was hoping somebody might find the code useful. There is still traces of it around if you search for "Fall Monitor"

Source:

https://github.com/ericcurtin/Fall-Monitor

My algorithms were fairly simple and accurate, just using the phone's accelerometer alone, with the extra sensors such as the altimeter in fitbit, we could make even more accurate algorithms.

I'd love to team up with fitbit to implement this extra functionality, hopefully they contact me on ericcurtin17@gmail.com if they see this.