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Monitoring user activities in smart home environments

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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) enable smart environments to create pervasive and ubiquitous applications, which give context-aware and scalable services to the end users. In this paper, we propose an architecture and design of a web application for a sensor network monitoring. Further, the variation in received signal strength indicator values is used for knowledge extraction. Experiments are conducted in an in-door room environment to determine the activities of a person. For instance, a WSN consisting of Moteiv’s Tmote Sky sensors is deployed in a bedroom to determine the sleeping behavior and other activities of a person.

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  1. Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Sajid Hussain

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Maltepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Senol Zafer Erdogen

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Masan, Korea

    Jong Hyuk Park

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An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10796-008-9132-1

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Hussain, S., Erdogen, S.Z. & Park, J.H. Monitoring user activities in smart home environments. Inf Syst Front 11, 539–549 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-008-9124-1

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