Detecting Patterns for Assisted Living Using Sensor Networks: A Case Study

  • Authors:
  • Dimitrios Lymberopoulos;Thiago Teixeira;Andreas Savvides

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SENSORCOMM '07 Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we demonstrate the application of a prob- abilistic grammar-based formulation to detect complex ac- tivities from simple sensor measurements. In particular, we present a grammar hierarchy for identifying "cooking ac- tivity" from low-level location measurements in an assisted living application. Using real data from a pilot network de- ployment, we show that our system can recognize complex behaviors in a manner that is invariant across multiple dif- ferent instances of the same activity. Our experiments also demonstrate that substantial data interpretation can take place at the node level, allowing the network to operate on compact symbolic representations.