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http://dx.doi.org/10.5302/J.ICROS.2008.14.3.248

User Identification and Entrance/Exit Detection System for Smart Home  

Lee, Seon-Woo (한림대학교 전자공학과)
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Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems / v.14, no.3, 2008 , pp. 248-253 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper presents a sensing system for smart home which can detect an location transition events such as entrance/exit of a member and identify the user in a group at the same time. The proposed system is compose of two sub-systems; a wireless sensor network system and a database server system. The wireless sensing system is designed as a star network where each of sensing modules with ultrasonic sensors and a Bluetooth RF module connect to a central receiver called Bluetooth access point. We propose a method to discriminate a user by measuring the height of the user. The differences in the height of users is a key feature for discrimination. At the same time, the each sensing module can recognize whether the user goes into or out a room by using two ultrasonic sensors. The server subsystem is a sort of data logging system which read the detected event from the access point and then write it into a database system. The database system could provide the location transition information to wide range of context-aware applications for smart home easily and conveniently. We evaluate the developed method with experiments for three subjects in a family with the installation of the developed system into a real house.
Keywords
location transition; exit/entering detection; ultrasonic sensors; user identification; daily activity detection; bluetooth-based wireless network;
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