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This is why remote monitoring systems are currently on the rise, and several commercial solutions can be found. However, current solutions use devices attached to the waist or wrist, causing discomfort in the people who wear them. The users also tend to forget to wear the devices carried in these positions. Therefore, in order to prevent these problems, the main objective of this work is designing and recollecting a new dataset about falls, falling risks and activities of daily living using an ankle-placed device obtaining a good balance between the different activity types. This dataset will be a useful tool for researchers who want to integrate the fall detector in the footwear. Thus, in this work we design the fall-detection device, study the suitable activities to be collected, collect the dataset from 21 users performing the studied activities and evaluate the quality of the collected dataset. As an additional and secondary study, we implement a simple Deep Learning classifier based on this data to prove the system\u2019s feasibility.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s21051889","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,8]],"date-time":"2021-03-08T12:12:18Z","timestamp":1615205538000},"page":"1889","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":22,"title":["AnkFall\u2014Falls, Falling Risks and Daily-Life Activities Dataset with an Ankle-Placed Accelerometer and Training Using Recurrent Neural Networks"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4352-8759","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francisco","family":"Luna-Perej\u00f3n","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Architecture and Computer Technology Department, ETSII-EPS, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"},{"name":"Robotics and Technology of Computers Laboratory, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4368-3791","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luis","family":"Mu\u00f1oz-Saavedra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Architecture and Computer Technology Department, ETSII-EPS, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"},{"name":"Robotics and Technology of Computers Laboratory, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3306-3537","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Javier","family":"Civit-Masot","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Architecture and Computer Technology Department, ETSII-EPS, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"},{"name":"Robotics and Technology of Computers Laboratory, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8733-1811","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anton","family":"Civit","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Architecture and Computer Technology Department, ETSII-EPS, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"},{"name":"Robotics and Technology of Computers Laboratory, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"},{"name":"Research Institute of Computer Engineering (I3US), University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5669-9111","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Manuel","family":"Dom\u00ednguez-Morales","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Architecture and Computer Technology Department, ETSII-EPS, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"},{"name":"Robotics and Technology of Computers Laboratory, University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"},{"name":"Research Institute of Computer Engineering (I3US), University of Seville, 41004 Sevilla, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"World Health Organization: Ageing and Life Course Unit (2008). 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