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Abstract:
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As the population ages and technology advances , a need exists for creating ambient intelligent systems to be placed within the home environment . Attitudes towards technology have been changing , and home monitoring is now considered a less expensive and desirable alternative . Ideally , such systems should be small , wireless , and take the minimum of effort and cost to install and place within the home . In order to detect human activity in an assistive environment , key questions about the construction and operation of the technology and methods needed to detect that activity . To that end , a computational framework has been created inside an apartment testbed combining a variety of algorithms , tools , and methods that support an assistive living apartment using Wireless Sensor Networks and other devices and sensors |