title: Easily installable behavioral monitoring system with electric field sensor.
abstract: This paper describes a wireless behavioral monitoring system equipped with an electric field sensor. The sensor unit was designed to obtain information regarding the usage of home electric appliances such as the television, microwave oven, coffee maker, etc. by measuring the electric field surrounding them. It is assumed that these usage statistics could provide information regarding the indoor behavior of a subject. Since the sensor can be used by simply attaching it to an appliance and does not require any wiring for its installation, this system can be temporarily installed in any ordinary house. A simple interface for selecting the threshold value of appliances' power on/off states was introduced. The experimental results reveal that the proposed system can be installed by individuals in their residences in a short time and the usage statistics of home appliances can be gathered.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Japan. tsuka@ieee.org
authors.forename: Sosuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tsukamoto
authors.forename: Yuichiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Machida
authors.forename: Noriyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kameda
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hoshino
authors.forename: Toshiyo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tamura
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001519:Behavior; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields; D006801:Humans; D013686:Telemetry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*