Recognizing Activities of Daily Living Using Binary Sensors

Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), or a person’s routine activities of self-care, are important factors influencing the feasibility of home health care or aging in place for many individuals. Automated, sensor-based recognition of such activities affords home stay, greater independence and privacy, and improved quality of life to individuals who would require stay in a supervised or medical facility. This paper describes a data-driven framework for the design and deployment of such an automated system for activity recognition using simple, unobtrusive, and privacy-friendly binary sensors. It presents the results of an experimental study, with both numerical and qualitative observations, of this framework on a publicly available real dataset.