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. 2013 Sep 25;13(10):12852–12902. doi: 10.3390/s131012852

Table 6.

Classified event, parameters/features and data source.

Classified Event Sensor Data Parameters/Features Classification Approach Accuracy
Fall Detection Accelerometer, Barometer[34] Accelerometer, Barometer [46] Accelerometer [42] Microphone [75] Accelerometer (as a vibration or impact sensor) [27] SMV, SMA, Tilt angle, Differential pressure Magnitude of a moving-window standard deviation, Standard deviation of the vector magnitude, ratio of the polar angle calculated in consecutive windows of 20 samples, difference in the values of the polar angle in consecutive windows SMA, SMV, Orientation, Mel Freq. Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), Sound event length, Sound event energy, Steered response power (SRP) (A12) Vibration event length, Vibration event energy, Shock response spectrum, Threshold-based algorithm
Not stated
Threshold-based algorithm
kNN
Not stated
1. 96.9%
2. 94.12%
3. 95.6%
4. 95%
5. 100%
Sensitivity, And 100% Specificity
Gait Assessment and Fall Risk Estimation GaitShoe [76]: accelerometer, bend sensor, gyroscope, Force Sensitive Resistor (FSR), Polyvinylidine Flouride stripe, and electric field sensor. Stride length, Stride velocity (integration of acceleration); orientation; force distribution under foot, heel-strike timing, and toe-off; heel-strike timing, toe-off timing; Plantar flexion/dorsi-flexion, Flexion at metatarsals; Height of foot above ground Not stated Not stated
ADL Food Preparation&Feeding RFID [24] Object touch Not stated 81.2%
ADL Selfcare RFID [24] Accelerometers, RFID [77] Object touch Acceleration, Object touch Not stated
Proprietary algorithm
1. 81.2%
2. 92.95%
ADL House Keeping RFID [24] Accelerometers, RFID [77] Object touch Acceleration, Object touch Not stated
Proprietary algorithm
1. 81.2%
2. 100%
ADL (Ambulation, Transfer, Posture) Accelerometer [38] Averaged variance over three axes, RMS of signal derivative, mean of signal derivative, average entropy over three axes, average cross correlation between each two axes, average range over three axes, average main frequency of the FFT over three axes, total signal energy averaged over three axes, energy of 0.2 window around the main frequency over total FFT energy (three axes average), Averaged skewness over three axes, Averaged Kurtosis over three axes, Averaged range of cross covariance between each two axes, Averaged mean of cross covariance between each two axes. k-Nearest Neighbour (kNN, k = 1 − 5, 7); BN with Gaussian priors Not stated
ADL Communication and Leisure 1. EOG [26] 2. Accelerometers, RFID [77] 1. Sacade (mean, variance, max amplitude, etc.), Saccade duration, fixation (mean, variance, amplitude, etc.), Fixation (time between each two saccades) duration, Average blink rate blink (mean, variance, max amplitude, etc.). 2. Acceleration, Object touch 1. SVM
2. Proprietary algorithm
1. precision of 76.1% and recall of 70.5%
2. 93.02%
Energy Expenditure Accelerometer [78] Coefficient of Variation (CV) for six 10s epochs within a 1min period, Vo2, average CV and the average counts per minute were calculated for minutes 4–9 of each activity Two-regression model 95%
Location Determination Orientation, tilt angle,
Subject Active or Inactive) 1. Accelerometer
2. Accelerometer [42]
1. Mean, SMA, Variance, STD.
2. SMA
1. Not stated
2. Threshold-based algorithm
1. 100%
2. 100%
Movement or Activity Intensity Accelerometer [42,65] Sample differences, Integral of RMS, Mean of Minmax, SMV, Cross correlation
Checking and Comparing Signals Accelerometer [65] Correlation coefficients, Sample differences, Signal Correlation, Cross correlation, Dynamic time warping