Detecting abnormal events on binary sensors in smart home environments
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Abstract
With a rising ageing population, smart home technologies have been demonstrated as a promising paradigm to enable technology-driven healthcare delivery. Smart home technologies, composed of advanced sensing, computing, and communication technologies, offer an unprecedented opportunity to keep track of behaviours and activities of the elderly and provide context-aware services that enable the elderly to remain active and independent in their own homes. However, experiments in developed prototypes demonstrate that abnormal sensor events hamper the correct identification of critical (and potentially life-threatening) situations, and that existing learning, estimation, and time-based approaches to situation recognition are inaccurate and inflexible when applied to multiple people sharing a living space. We propose a novel technique, called CLEAN, that integrates the semantics of sensor readings with statistical outlier detection. We evaluate the technique against four real-world datasets across different environments including the datasets with multiple residents. The results have shown that CLEAN can successfully detect sensor anomaly and improve activity recognition accuracies.
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Ye , J , Stevenson , G & Dobson , S 2016 , ' Detecting abnormal events on binary sensors in smart home environments ' , Pervasive and Mobile Computing , vol. 33 , pp. 32-49 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2016.06.012
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Pervasive and Mobile Computing
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Peer reviewed
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1574-1192Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2016.06.012
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