System for detecting falls and discriminating the severity of falls

A system for detecting and discriminating a severity of a fall, the system comprising:

• a server;
• a notification module;
• a smart watch configured to communicate with the server, the smart watch including, so as to operate as background tasks, a fall monitor and an activity log resident on the smart watch, where the fall monitor is configured to record detected movement, from accelerometer data at a sampling rate, on the activity log;
• wherein, the notification module is configured to effect a setting of a predetermined rate of communications between the notification module and the activity log running in the background on smart watch based on, at least one of, at least part of a predetermined pattern of a fall discriminator within the activity log and setting adjustment in the sampling frequency of the accelerometer data,
• where the setting defines a predetermined communication periodicity having the set communication rate between the notification module and the activity log, which the predetermined communication periodicity having the set communication rate, so defined, is independent from a determination of the fall discriminator;
• wherein, the fall discriminator further is configured to determine occurrence of a notable fall event based, at least in part, on adjustment in the sampling rate of the accelerometer data, and wherein at least one of the server and the smart watch is configured to send a message related to the notable fall event based on the adjustment of the sampling rate of the accelerometer data registered by the smart watch.