Devices and application tools for activity recognition: sensor deployment and primary concerns

Abstract

Sensory modality is a primary concern in sensor-based activity recognition research. The usage of wearable devices and utilizing embedded smartphone sensor data to recognize daily activities has become famous in this research field nowadays. This chapter deals with the challenges of choosing an appropriate sensing device and application tools for data collection. Sensing devices used in previous activity recognition research works have been described in detail with their hardware and software specification. Finally, the description and parameters of some important sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, etc.) have been given.