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To minimize consequences through a short reaction time, the motion sensor \u201cAIDE-MOI\u201d was developed. \u201cAIDE-MOI\u201d senses acceleration data and analyzes if an event is a fall. The threshold-based fall detection algorithm was developed using motion data of young subjects collected in a lab setup. The aim of this study was to improve and validate the existing fall detection algorithm. In the two-phase study, twenty subjects (age 86.25 \u00b1 6.66 years) with a high risk of fall (Morse &gt; 65 points) were recruited to record motion data in real-time using the AIDE-MOI sensor. The data collected in the first phase (59 days) was used to optimize the existing algorithm. The optimized second-generation algorithm was evaluated in a second phase (66 days). The data collected in the two phases, which recorded 31 real falls, was split-up into one-minute chunks for labelling as \u201cfall\u201d or \u201cnon-fall\u201d. 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