Location
https://ccse.kennesaw.edu/computing-showcase/cday-programs/fall21program.php
Document Type
Event
Start Date
2-12-2021 5:00 PM
Description
Abstract: Personal hygiene is how people take care of their bodies. Maintaining hygiene practice reduces the spread of illness and the risk of medical conditions. With the current pandemic situation, practices like washing hands and taking regular showers have taken major importance among people, especially for senior populations that live alone at home. Having an understanding of the human hygiene habits of our seniors is fundamental to monitoring health conditions.This research work presents the concept and idea of a noninvasive monitoring system for human hygiene using only vibration sensors. The approach is based on a geophone, a digitizer, and a cost-efficient computer board (raspberry pi). We capture the vibration of the water flow while people perform activities in the bathroom (open faucet, flush toilets) and kitchen (open kitchen sink). Results show that our approach can distinguish from these different activities with an accuracy higher than 90%. With this approach, we hope to start a new tendency of monitoring people activities without using cameras or other privacy-invasive methods.
Department: Information Technology
Supervisor: Dr. Maria Valero
Topics: IoT/Cloud/Networking
Included in
GR-100 - Non-Invasive Monitoring of Human Hygiene using Vibration Sensor and Classifiers
https://ccse.kennesaw.edu/computing-showcase/cday-programs/fall21program.php
Abstract: Personal hygiene is how people take care of their bodies. Maintaining hygiene practice reduces the spread of illness and the risk of medical conditions. With the current pandemic situation, practices like washing hands and taking regular showers have taken major importance among people, especially for senior populations that live alone at home. Having an understanding of the human hygiene habits of our seniors is fundamental to monitoring health conditions.This research work presents the concept and idea of a noninvasive monitoring system for human hygiene using only vibration sensors. The approach is based on a geophone, a digitizer, and a cost-efficient computer board (raspberry pi). We capture the vibration of the water flow while people perform activities in the bathroom (open faucet, flush toilets) and kitchen (open kitchen sink). Results show that our approach can distinguish from these different activities with an accuracy higher than 90%. With this approach, we hope to start a new tendency of monitoring people activities without using cameras or other privacy-invasive methods.
Department: Information Technology
Supervisor: Dr. Maria Valero
Topics: IoT/Cloud/Networking