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https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss.v4i3.219
Physical Context Detection using Wearable Wireless Sensor Networks
Muhannad Quwaider
; Electrical and Engineering Department, Michigan State University, USA
Subir Biswas
; Electrical and Engineering Department, Michigan State University, USA
Sažetak
This paper presents the architecture of a wearable sensor network and a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) processing framework for stochastic identification of body postures and physical contexts. The key idea is to collect multi-modal sensor data from strategically placed wireless sensors over a human subject’s body segments, and to process that using HMM in order to identify the subject’s instantaneous physical context. The key contribution of the proposed multi-modal approach is a significant extension of traditional uni modal accelerometry in which only the individual body segment movements, without their relative proximities and orientation modalities, is used for physical context identification. Through real-life experiments with body mounted sensors it is demonstrated that while the unimodal accelerometry can be used for differentiating activityintensive postures such as walking and running, they are not effective for identification and differentiation between lowactivity postures such as sitting, standing, lying down, etc. In the proposed system, three sensor modalities namely acceleration, relative proximity and orientation are used for context identification through Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based stochastic processing. Controlled experiments using human subjects are carried out for evaluating the accuracy of the HMMidentified postures compared to a naïve threshold based mechanism over different human subjects.
Ključne riječi
Body Area Network; Sensor Networks; Posture Identification; Context identification; Hidden Markov Model
Hrčak ID:
180530
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.9.2008.
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