Disaggregated water sensing from a single, pressure-based sensor: An extended analysis of HydroSense using staged experiments

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 82-102

  Larson, Eric ^a   Froehlich, Jon ^a   Campbell, Tim ^a   Haggerty, Conor ^a   Atlas, Les ^a   Fogarty, James ^a   Patel, Shwetak N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity sensing; Infrastructure mediated sensing; Sensors; Water usage

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SENSORS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ACTIVITY SENSING; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; DISAGGREGATION TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL METHODOLOGY; EXTENDED ANALYSIS; INFRASTRUCTURE-MEDIATED SENSING; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; WATER USAGE;

TEMPLATE MATCHING;

EID: 84856080464     PISSN: 15741192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmcj.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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