Data-Driven Modeling and Simulation of Daily Activity Patterns of Elderlies Living in a Smart Home

Abstract

Considering the globally aging population, one of the main challenges the healthcare system would have to face is to help elderly people stay at home in good health conditions and as long as possible. Recent advances in technologies answer this need with Smart Homes and Ambient Assisted Living programs. Data collected by the sensors are labeled and used to monitor the inhabitant Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). This paper presents a new modeling framework of the smart home resident’s behavior that mimics his behavior on multiple aspects and is able to simulate the resident daily behavior. Our approach is illustrated by a real-life case study application. Results show that the presented framework enables the modeling of human behavior living alone in a smart home without prior knowledge on the inhabitant. Such results enable further research on frailty prediction through simulation.