Activity monitoring for multi-inhabitant smart homes
Chitra Ayuningtyas, Gerhard Leitner, Martin Hitz, Mathias Funk, Jun Hu, Matthias Rauterberg · SPIE Newsroom · 2014
A home monitoring system uses ambient sensors to observe the daily activities of multiple inhabitants, and provides tools to analyze short- and long-term behavior patterns. Activity recognition and monitoring play important roles in smart home systems, which rely on perceiving and understand-ing inhabitants ’ behavior to generate a response. Applications that require such pattern recognition include alarms to detect anomalies and personalized home automation systems (where automatic lighting, heating, or security are tailored to the habits of the inhabitants). To observe activity in an environment by the least intrusive means, we considered the use of ambient sensors, rather than cameras or wearables. Most existing work in this area focuses on environments with single inhabitants,1 or on laboratories or tem-porarily occupied spaces,2 and is conducted using high-density