ElectriSense: Single-point sensing using EMI for electrical event detection and classification in the home

UbiComp'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 139-148

  Gupta, Sidhant ^a   Reynolds, Matthew S ^b   Patel, Shwetak N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

activity recognition; activity sensing; energy monitoring; infrastructure mediated sensing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; ACTIVITY SENSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; EMI SIGNATURE; ENERGY MONITORING; EVENT DETECTION; FLUORESCENT LIGHTING; FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTIC; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY; INFRASTRUCTURE-MEDIATED SENSING; NEW APPROACHES; NEW SOLUTIONS; POWER SUPPLY; SINGLE POINT; SWITCH-MODE POWER SUPPLIES; TRANSIENT NOISE;

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTRON DEVICES; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SHAPE MEMORY EFFECT;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 78650002846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1864349.1864375     Document Type: Conference Paper

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