Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in Smart Homes
This addresses the need for automated assistance and health monitoring for elderly and dependent individuals in smart home environments, but it appears incremental as it builds on general HAR concepts without specifying novel breakthroughs.
The paper tackles the problem of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in smart homes by monitoring daily activities to deduce behaviors, with the result being the provision of home assistance services that improve quality of life, autonomy, and health for residents, especially the elderly and dependent.
Generally, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) consists of monitoring and analyzing the behavior of one or more persons in order to deduce their activity. In a smart home context, the HAR consists of monitoring daily activities of the residents. Thanks to this monitoring, a smart home can offer home assistance services to improve quality of life, autonomy and health of their residents, especially for elderly and dependent people.