Smart aging system: Uncovering the hidden wellness parameter for well-being monitoring and anomaly detection

Hemant Ghayvat*, Muhammad Awais, Sharnil Pandya, Hao Ren, Saeed Akbarzadeh, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Chen Chen, Prosanta Gope, Arpita Chouhan, Wei Chen

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Abstract

Background: Ambiguities and anomalies in the Activity of Daily Living (ADL) patterns indicate deviations from Wellness. The monitoring of lifestyles could facilitate remote physicians or caregivers to give insight into symptoms of the disease and provide health improvement advice to residents; Objective: This research work aims to apply lifestyle monitoring in an ambient assisted living (AAL) system by diagnosing conduct and distinguishing variation from the norm with the slightest conceivable fake alert. In pursuing this aim, the main objective is to fill the knowledge gap of two contextual observations (i.e., day and time) in the frequent behavior modeling for an individual in AAL. Each sensing category has its advantages and restrictions. Only a single type of sensing unit may not manage composite states in practice and lose the activity of daily living. To boost the efficiency of the system, we offer an exceptional sensor data fusion technique through different sensing modalities; Methods: As behaviors may also change according to other contextual observations, including seasonal, weather (or temperature), and social interaction, we propose the design of a novel activity learning model by adding behavioral observations, which we name as the Wellness indices analysis model; Results: The ground-truth data are collected from four elderly houses, including daily activities, with a sample size of three hundred days plus sensor activation. The investigation results validate the success of our method. The new feature set from sensor data fusion enhances the system accuracy to (98.17% ± 0.95) from (80.81% ± 0.68). The performance evaluation parameters of the proposed model for ADL recognition are recorded for the 14 selected activities. These parameters are Sensitivity (0.9852), Specificity (0.9988), Accuracy (0.9974), F1 score (0.9851), False Negative Rate (0.0130).

Original languageEnglish
Article number766
JournalSensors (Switzerland)
Volume19
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Feb 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Activity of daily living
  • Ambient assisted living
  • Anomaly detection
  • Elderly
  • Smart home
  • Wellness
  • Wellness indices

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