A Wireless Sensor Network Testbed for Event Detection in Smart Homes

Author

Mekikis, Prodromos-Vasileios ; Athanasiou, Georgia ; Fischione, Carlo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., KTH - R. Inst. of Technol., Stockholm, Sweden

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 May 2013

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

322

Abstract

In smart homes, it is essential to reliably detect events including water leakages. A control action, such as shutting the water pipes, relies on reliable event detection. In this demo, a wireless sensor network for detection and localization of events in smart homes is presented. The demo is based on novel distributed detection-estimation and localization algorithms. A graphical user interface to visualize in real-time the network status is developed. Upon a detected event, the user is alerted through a Twitter notification. In the experiments the false alarm probability is improved by 30% and the average relative localization error is 1.7%.

Keywords

building management systems; graphical user interfaces; pipelines; social networking (online); wireless sensor networks; Twitter notification; distributed detection-estimation; event detection; false alarm probability; graphical user interface; localization algorithms; smart homes; water leakages; water pipe shutting; wireless sensor network; Estimation; Graphical user interfaces; Kalman filters; Logic gates; Reliability; Smart homes; Wireless sensor networks; actuation; bayesian detection; estimation; gui; kalman; localization; smart home; twitter; wsn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0206-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DCOSS.2013.36

Filename

6569449