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Energy-Efficient Motion Related Activity Recognition on Mobile Devices for Pervasive Healthcare

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Activity recognition plays an important role for pervasive healthcare such as health monitoring, assisted living and pro-active services. Despite of the continuous and transparent sensing with various built-in sensors in mobile devices, activity recognition on mobile devices for pervasive healthcare is still a challenge due to the constraint of resources, such as battery limitation, computation workload, etc. Keeping in view the demand of energy-efficient activity recognition, we propose a hierarchical method to recognize user activities based on a single tri-axial accelerometer in smart phones for health monitoring. Specifically, the contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, it is demonstrated that the activity recognition based on the low sampling frequency is feasible for the long-term activity monitoring. Second, this paper presents a hierarchical recognition scheme. The proposed algorithm reduces the opportunity of usage of time-consuming frequency-domain features and adjusts the size of sliding window to improve recognition accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, with more than 85 % recognition accuracy rate for 11 activities and 3.2 h extended battery life for mobile phones. Our energy efficient recognition algorithm extends the battery time for activity recognition on mobile devices and contributes to the health monitoring for pervasive healthcare.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2012CB316400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61222209, 61103063), the Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (No. NCET-12-0466), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (No. 20126102110043), the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (No. 2012JQ8028), and the Doctorate Foundation of Northwestern Polytechnical University.

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Liang, Y., Zhou, X., Yu, Z. et al. Energy-Efficient Motion Related Activity Recognition on Mobile Devices for Pervasive Healthcare. Mobile Netw Appl 19, 303–317 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-013-0448-9

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