Interpreting human activity from electrical consumption data using reconfigurable hardware and hidden Markov models

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 469-483

  Ferrandez Pastor F J ^a   Mora Mora, H ^a   Sanchez Romero J L ^a   Nieto Hidalgo, M ^a   Garcia Chamizo J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

FPGA; Hidden Markov models; Human activity recognition; Smart sensor; Wavelet transform

Indexed keywords

ASSISTED LIVING; COMPUTER HARDWARE; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HARDWARE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SMART SENSORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING; CONTEXT-AWARE COMPUTING; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DOMESTIC ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTRICAL CONSUMPTION; HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS; HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; NONINTRUSIVE LOAD MONITORING;

RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE;

EID: 85022008870     PISSN: 18685137     EISSN: 18685145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12652-016-0431-y     Document Type: Article

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