Fade: fall detector

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ITER S.A. Health & Fitness

PEGI 3

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Fade is a mobile application designed and developed by ITER, S.A. able to detect falls using the information collected by some of your mobile sensors such as the accelerometer. Fade has been designed for people might be under risks of falling in an isolated environment without any supervision. This makes the application ideal for bikers, motorcyclist, working at heights, hikers or elders.

Fade can be configured to issue an alert message to a predefined contact after a fall detection, reporting the time and place where the accident occurred, using the device's geolocation tools. This information, which may be sent to the selected contact via SMS and email, can be vital in emergencies as indicated for numerous studies by the leading authorities in the field of emergency services. Fade also allows for a phone call to that contact with automatic activation of the device's speaker.

Fade has been tested in Pabellón Municipal de Deportes Miguel A. Díaz Molina, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife with Master Saha C. Afonso, International Coach of Kung Fu with over 20 years of experience. With the knowledge of the Master Saha on different falling techniques and his experience as a stunt specialist, a complete and effective application has been produced. The following video summarizes the testing process that the application was subject to with the collaboration of Master Saha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIN5SaXL36Q&feature=youtu.be.

Fade is an application being currenly tested. Although it has been thoroughly tested, a 100% success rate in detecting falls or accidents is not guaranteed. ITER S.A. will not take responsibility on any bad use of the application by the user.

Reviews

4.0

103 total

5 62

4 16

3 8

2 2

1 15

Risk Rarius

This is brilliant However, using Samsung Galaxy Note 3 there is a couple of issues. False activations trying to get phone out of bags pockets etc is a pain. Can you get this to work with galaxy gear watch. Then even whilst phone is charging or drug induced somnambulance is covered?

Wouter Horselenberg

Help! needs more automatism I love the app.. but I can't really use it yet. I want to use it for my grandmother, but she does not really know how a smartphone works and she forgets/does not know how to startup this app and activate it. I need this app to have a option to auto start when the smartphone starts up and to activate/arm itself automaticly. My grandmother should only need know how to charge it and how to turn the smartphone on. Who can I contact about this?

Bill Hines

So far ok. Just can't tell it I am ok. Have to kill the app. Also no way to control detect tone sound level. I will give it a 5 when these are corrected. I am disabled and hard of hearing.

Jim Morris

Generally, very good; but it fails to make phone call or send email. It sends a text correctly and attempts the phone call, but a robo-female voice says "Could not complete your call. Please try again" This is on an Android/Google Nexus 5.

Doron B

It has good potential. But it has few drawbacks that makes it not ready for emergency. At least not for elderly. 1. It does not restart on system restart. 2. It stops detecting after one detection. 3. It send message to only one person.

David Cooper

Uninstalling Either overly sensitive or not sensitive enough. Tried it on both my S3 and my S5. After a few hours of experimenting I'm afraid I have to uninstall from both.

User reviews

Risk Rarius January 6, 2014

Wouter Horselenberg December 1, 2014

Bill Hines December 22, 2015

So far ok. Just can't tell it I am ok. Have to kill the app. Also no way to control detect tone sound level. I will give it a 5 when these are corrected. I am disabled and hard of hearing.

Jim Morris March 22, 2015

ITER S.A. November 12, 2015

Please, check your telephone coverage, this could be the reason.

Doron B February 13, 2016

David Cooper August 21, 2015

Uninstalling Either overly sensitive or not sensitive enough. Tried it on both my S3 and my S5. After a few hours of experimenting I'm afraid I have to uninstall from both.

ITER S.A. November 12, 2015

Three sensitivity modes were developed to simplify the configuration of all parameters that are implicit in the fall detection. Unfortunatly none of the modes fits your needs, we are sorry.

Cassie Marvin October 8, 2015

Very good! I have a spinal injury and this so far as I've tested works. I feel safer trying to walk without an assistant

Dale Sharp February 25, 2014

Missing Setting You need the ability to set the recovery sensitivity, I only have to rock my phone slightly to deactivate it and being a motorcyclist this could easily be falsely disabled by writhing in pain.

ITER S.A. November 12, 2015

Recovery capacity is automatically calculated based on the selected sensitivity and how the fall occurred.

Beatrice Gatta June 11, 2015

Lacks autostart function and more costomization I've thrown it on the couch to test it while in "motorcycle" mode and it detected an accident. I wish I could edit the messages it will send.

ITER S.A. November 12, 2015

FADE has a widget to activate the fall detector service easily. The length of messages is designed to avoid sending more than one sms, we appreciate your suggestion, we will think about how to implement it.

John Harrold April 28, 2015

Nice 1 Well all i can say is every time iv had a fall since i installed this it has actually sent a text to my carer!!! So it does work!!!

Ray Braun October 22, 2014

AMAZING I'm sharing with all my friends and doctors The green squiggly line is fascinating My new security blanket Thanking the developer Wish I had it a week earlier. Very sensitive, even on low setting.

Poppy Puppy July 23, 2016

Doesn't work Despite restarting the phone and reinstalling the app, all I get is a message in the top right saying 'Service stopped'. No hint as to what.

Steve Fidler August 4, 2016

Not working The app registers the fall but doesn't trigger the alarm.. Shame, this is exactly what I was looking for

Chew PhEon January 20, 2016

may i know what thershold you set? hi, this is a great apps..i m currently doing a almost same apps with this apps, but i dont know how many threshold i should set on the apps..

Andrew Wiczling January 20, 2015

Doesn't work when phone locked. Same showstopper... I agree with Aaron. Good idea though...

ITER S.A. November 12, 2015

FADE is prepared for working when phone is locked. Perhaps your mobile model does not allow it. Please send us more information in order to solve it.

Shivaraj Patil February 14, 2016

Calibration fails

Narciso Zorzi May 6, 2016

Good App Works well

Jayant Arora August 22, 2016

Good job people

Aaron Kuhn January 18, 2015

Doesn't work when phone locked, relies on unknown mail server Practically speaking this failed even basic tests. Did NOT detect falls when device was locked (which it pretty much always would be!). Took two minutes for a sms from my phone back to my own phone to come through. Release notes mention email services moved to an internal server of authors. Why would you want that?! Send email from configured provider on phone. If you trust the health and life of your relative to some free email server of unknown reliability and no SLA you can literally get someone killed..

ITER S.A. November 12, 2015

FADE is prepared for working when phone is locked. Perhaps your mobile model does not allow it. Please send us more information in order to solve it. The mail server is implicit in FADE to prevent the introduction of user email.

ZORT FC February 23, 2016

No communications. Broke my Samsung Galaxy S4 mini trying to get this to work. From smacking it on my hand, the dining room table to throwing it across the room. Graph shows movement, but no call or sms. Won't be installing on my new phone. Will look for a program that works.