The Elderly's Independent Living in Smart Homes: A Characterization of Activities and Sensing Infrastructure Survey to Facilitate Services Development

• Published in: Sensors Vol. 15; no. 5; pp. 11312 - 11362
• Main Authors: Ni, Qin, García Hernando, Ana Belén, de la Cruz, Iván Pau
• Format: Journal Article Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 14.05.2015; MDPI
• Subjects: activity characterization; activity monitoring; Classification; Data processing; e-health services development; Failure; independent living; Infrastructure; Monitoring; Preprocessing; Review; Sensors; Smart buildings; smart home; independent living; sensors; data processing; activity monitoring; smart home; activity characterization; e-health services development

Human activity detection within smart homes is one of the basis of unobtrusive wellness monitoring of a rapidly aging population in developed countries. Most works in this area use the concept of "activity" as the building block with which to construct applications such as healthcare monit...