# AI-Driven Internet of Things (IoT) dataset for remote health monitoring and fall detection in elderly people

**Authors:** Md. Reazul Islam, Md. Owafeeuzzaman Patwary, S M Ashiqul Islam

PMC · DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2026.112641 · Data in Brief · 2026-03-03

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a simulated IoT dataset for monitoring elderly health and detecting falls, useful for training machine learning models.

## Contribution

The paper presents a novel multimodal IoT dataset for remote health monitoring and fall detection in elderly individuals.

## Key findings

- The dataset includes physiological and motion data labeled for health conditions and fall events.
- It supports benchmarking machine learning methods like SVM and random forests for health classification.
- The dataset includes 2D and 3D human skeletons and timestamps for sensor data.

## Abstract

Many older adults live with one or more chronic conditions that require ongoing monitoring. At the same time, the aging population continues to grow, increasing interest in remote health management solutions, particularly for seniors who live alone and may face delayed assistance during medical emergencies. In this data article, we present a comprehensive simulated dataset designed to represent IoT-based remote health monitoring and fall detection scenarios in older adults. The dataset incorporates multimodal sensor data capturing physiological signals (heart rate, blood oxygen saturation (SpO₂), and body temperature) and motion-related measurements (three-axis acceleration and rotation). The dataset consists of raw inertial data, derived magnitudes, heart rate, and heart rate variability values, along with their timestamps from the sensors. It contains 2D and 3D human skeletons, and each record is labeled by a health condition (Normal, Hypertension, Hypotension, Fever, Hypoxia, Fall) with binary feature variables representing a label for fall detection and a label for health risk, respectively. This dataset serves as a promising benchmark for training and testing machine learning methods, including support vector machines (SVM), random forests, gradient boosting, and logistic regression, to automatically classify health status and critical event detection. The dataset is intended to support benchmarking and comparative evaluation of machine learning methods for health status and critical event classification.

## Linked entities

- **Diseases:** Hypotension (MONDO:0005468)

## Full-text entities

- **Diseases:** Fever (MESH:D005334), Hypertension (MESH:D006973), Hypoxia (MESH:D000860), Fall (MESH:C537863), Hypotension (MESH:D007022)
- **Chemicals:** oxygen (MESH:D010100)
- **Species:** Homo sapiens (human, species) [taxon 9606]

## Full text

_Full body text omitted from this summary view._ Fetch the complete paper as Markdown: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC12996983/full.md

## Figures

4 figures with captions in the complete paper: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC12996983/full.md

## References

12 references — full list in the complete paper: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC12996983/full.md

---
Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/PMC12996983