Human Activity Monitoring with MEMS Technology

2014 ◽  
Vol 134 (12) ◽  
pp. 372-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazusuke Maenaka
Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (22) ◽  
pp. 5001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhendong Zhuang ◽  
Yang Xue

As an active research field, sport-related activity monitoring plays an important role in people’s lives and health. This is often viewed as a human activity recognition task in which a fixed-length sliding window is used to segment long-term activity signals. However, activities with complex motion states and non-periodicity can be better monitored if the monitoring algorithm is able to accurately detect the duration of meaningful motion states. However, this ability is lacking in the sliding window approach. In this study, we focused on two types of activities for sport-related activity monitoring, which we regard as a human activity detection and recognition task. For non-periodic activities, we propose an interval-based detection and recognition method. The proposed approach can accurately determine the duration of each target motion state by generating candidate intervals. For weak periodic activities, we propose a classification-based periodic matching method that uses periodic matching to segment the motion sate. Experimental results show that the proposed methods performed better than the sliding window method.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawkat Ali ◽  
Saleem Khan ◽  
Amine Bermak

A self-powered device for human activity monitoring and energy harvesting for Internet of Things (IoT) devices is proposed. The self-powered device utilizes flexible Nano-generators (NGs), flexible diodes and off-the-shelf capacitors. During footsteps the NGs generate an AC voltage then it is converted into DC using rectifiers and the DC power is stored in a capacitor for powering the IoT devices. Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and zinc stannate (ZnSnO3) composite is utilized for the NG active layer, indium tin oxide (ITO) and aluminum (Al) are used as the bottom and top electrodes, respectively. Four diodes are fabricated on the bottom electrode of the NG and connected in bridge rectifier configuration. A generated voltage of 18 Vpeak was achieved with a human footstep. The self-powered smart device also showed excellent robustness and stable energy scavenger from human footsteps. As an application we demonstrate human activity detection and energy harvesting for IoT devices.


2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben San-Segundo ◽  
Julian Echeverry-Correa ◽  
Christian Salamea ◽  
Jose Manuel Pardo

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