SVM based context awareness using body area sensor network for pervasive healthcare monitoring

  • Authors:
  • Sonali Agarwal; Divya;G. N. Pandey

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India;Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India;Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In the present growing era advancement of computer processing power, data communication capabilities, low power micro electronics devices and micro sensors increases the popularity of wireless sensor network in real life. Body area sensor network is a group of sensor nodes inside and outside the human body for continuous monitoring of health conditions, behavior and activities. Context awareness in pervasive health care is a proactive approach which is different from a conventional event-driven model (for example: visiting doctor when sick) and here we are continuously monitoring a patient health conditions through the use of Body area sensor network. This paper presents a layered architecture of Wide Area Wireless Sensor Body Area Network (WA-WSBAN) along with data fusion techniques, standards and sensor network hardware requirement for context awareness. A BodyMedia sensor dataset collected from 9 different sensor nodes has been used to classify the user activities with reference to different sensor readings. The context information derived from the proposed Wide Area Wireless Sensor Body Area Network (WA-WSBAN) architecture may be used in pervasive healthcare monitoring to detect various events and accurate episodes and unusual patterns and activities obtained from the study can be marked for later review. In this research work patient activity and gender classification has been done by using one to all and multi kernel based support vector data classification. The similar practices may be utilized for the study of various observations in real time health care applications and proactive measures may be initiated based on results obtained from data classification.