Monitoring health in smart homes using simple sensors.

Massie, Stewart; Forbes, Glenn; Craw, Susan; Fraser, Lucy; Hamilton, Graeme

Abstract

We consider use of an ambient sensor network, installed in Smart Homes, to identify low level events taking place which can then be analysed to generate a resident's profile of activities of daily living (ADLs). These ADL profiles are compared to both the resident's typical profile and to known "risky" profiles to support evidence-based interventions. Human activity recognition to identify ADLs from sensor data is a key challenge, a window-based representation is compared on four existing datasets. We find that windowing works well, giving consistent performance. We also introduce FITsense, which is building a Smart Home environment to specifically identify increased risk of falls to allow interventions before falls occurs.

Citation

MASSIE, S., FORBES, G., CRAW, S., FRASER, L. and HAMILTON, G. 2018. Monitoring health in smart homes using simple sensors. In Bach, K., Bunescu, R., Farri, O., Guo, A., Hasan, S., Ibrahim, Z.M., Marling, C., Raffa, J., Rubin, J. and Wu, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International workshop on knowledge discovery in healthcare data (KDH), co-located with the 27th International joint conference on artificial intelligence and the 23rd European conference on artificial intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018), 13 July 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. CEUR workshop proceedings, 2148. Aachen: CEUR-WS [online], pages 33-37. Available from: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2148/paper05.pdf

• Conference Name: 3rd International workshop on knowledge discovery in healthcare data (KDH)
• Conference Location: Stockholm, Sweden
• Start Date: Jul 13, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Apr 16, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jul 13, 2018
• Publication Date: Jul 25, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jul 6, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 13, 2018
• Print ISSN: 1613-0073
• Publisher: CEUR Workshop Proceedings
• Pages: 33-37
• Series Title: CEUR workshop proceedings
• Series Number: 2148
• Series ISSN: 1613-0073
• Keywords: Smart homes; ADL; FITsense; Smart home environment
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/2993
• Publisher URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2148/paper05.pdf