Human Activity Monitoring System Using MEMS Sensors and Machine Learning

Abstract

Observation of daily human activity and status is important from the viewpoints of maintaining health and preventive medical care. In this study, we describe a system for monitoring human activities and conditions that uses microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors. The system contains four MEMS sensors for environmental monitoring-3-axis acceleration, barometric pressure, temperature, and relative humidity-as well as the peripheral circuitry for each sensor. Measured human activity data are stored in a memory via an on-board microprocessor. We measured environmental data for a subject's daily life. To estimate the subject's activity and his condition from a huge volume of data, we applied a soft computing technique to machine learning for the automatic extraction of human-activity classification.