Monitoring Elder´s Living Activity Using Ambient and Body Sensor Network in Smart Home

The high development of medicine causes the world´s population aging quickly. To resolve the problem with limited medical resources, constant monitoring of elders´ activity of daily living is important. We propose an activity recognition system for smart home, so elders can live alone and their children can monitor their parents´ living activity to achieve the concept of "Aging in Place". The living activity monitoring model is powerful to recognize meaningful activities by using both ambient and wearable sensors. It´s feasible to deploy in the real living environment be-cause it´s a non-parametric learning model. Elders need less effort to label activity in training part, and the model may have chance to find some special activities that the elders did not consider in the past. We demonstrate the living activity monitoring model is feasible to be deployed in a living home with high accuracy performance of the activity recognition result.