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. 2017 Oct 9;12(10):e0185670. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185670

Table 1. List of instantaneous features extracted of interest to system.

(* indicates feature used.)

Features Description
1. Frontal acceleration (af)* Dorsoventral axis acceleration values in g (i.e. range −1:1)
2. Vertical acceleration (av)* Anteroposterior axis acceleration values in g
3. Lateral acceleration (al) Left-right axis acceleration values in g
4. Sine of body tilting angle (pitch)* Sine of body tilting angle (θ) towards the front or back with respect to vertical in the midsagittal plane [26], approximated as: sin(arctan(afav))
5. Received signal power (RSSI)* Received signal power from the sensor as received at reading antenna. RSSI is calculated as: PtGt2Gpath2K where Pt is the output power of the RFID reader, Gt is the RFID antenna gain, K is the W2ISP backscatter gain and Gpath is the one-way path gain of the deterministic multipath channel [44] which is inversely proportional to the square of the direct path distance (i.e. d02). Hence, RSSI is inversely proportional to d04.
6. Resultant acceleration* Magnitude of acceleration vector given by at=af2+av2+al2.
7. Time difference Δt Time difference with previous sensor observation (regardless of receiving antenna).
8. Participant’s gender*
9. Trunk yaw angle* Rotational angle from dorsoventral axis, approximated as: βarctan(alaf)
10. Trunk roll angle* Tilting angle in the coronal plane, approximated as: αarctan(alav)
11. Antenna ID (aID) RFID antenna receiving current tag reading.