Title
Machine learning approaches for non-intrusive home absence detection based on appliance electrical use
Abstract
Home absence detection is an emerging field on smart home installations. Identifying whether or not the residents of the house are present, is important in numerous scenarios. Possible scenarios include but are not limited to: elderly people living alone, people suffering from dementia, home quarantine. The majority of published papers focus on either pressure/door sensors or cameras in order to detect outing events. Although the aforementioned approaches provide solid results, they are intrusive and require modifications for sensor placement. In our work, appliance electrical use is investigated as a means for detecting the presence or absence of residents. The energy use is the result of power disaggregation, a non intrusive/non invasive sensing method. Since a dataset providing energy data and ground truth for home absence is not available, artificial outing events were introduced on the UK-DALE dataset, a well known dataset for Non Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM). Several machine learning algorithms were evaluated using the generated dataset. Benchmark results have shown that home absence detection using appliance power consumption is feasible.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118454
Expert Systems with Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Outing detection,Smart home,Electric use,Internet of things,Machine learning,Ambient assisted living
Journal
210
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0957-4174
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Athanasios Lentzas100.34
Dimitris Vrakas225123.98