Easily Installable Behavioral Monitoring System with Electric Field Sensor

Author

Tsukamoto, S. ; Machida, Y. ; Kameda, N. ; Hoshino, H. ; Tamura, T.

Author_Institution

Tokyo Denki Univ., Tokyo

fYear

2007

fDate

22-26 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

4060

Lastpage

4063

Abstract

This paper describes a wireless behavioral monitoring system equipped with an electric field sensor. The sensor unit was designed to obtain information regarding the usage of home electric appliances such as the television, microwave oven, coffee maker, etc. by measuring the electric field surrounding them. It is assumed that these usage statistics could provide information regarding the indoor behavior of a subject. Since the sensor can be used by simply attaching it to an appliance and does not require any wiring for its installation, this system can be temporarily installed in any ordinary house. A simple interface for selecting the threshold value of appliances´ power on/off states was introduced. The experimental results reveal that the proposed system can be installed by individuals in their residences in a short time and the usage statistics of home appliances can be gathered.

Keywords

consumer behaviour; domestic appliances; electric field measurement; electric sensing devices; coffee maker; electric field sensor; home electric appliances; microwave oven; television; usage statistics; wireless behavioral monitoring system; Home appliances; Microwave measurements; Microwave ovens; Microwave sensors; Monitoring; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Statistics; TV; Wireless sensor networks; Activities of Daily Living; Behavior; Electromagnetic Fields; Humans; Telemetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2007. EMBS 2007. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0787-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353225

Filename

4353225