Decision-based framework to facilitate EDGE computing in smart health care

Abstract

In the past few years, with the increase in population and health concerns, there has been a need for efficient health monitoring solutions that can help patients monitor their health consistently to be aware of any health risks at the initial stage. The advancement in sensing and smart technologies helps monitor human behaviors to predict health risks. In this work, a dynamic decision-based activity prediction system is proposed using Random Forest, SVM, Decision Trees, Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), and Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) on an edge device. We train the models using features from the MHealth dataset, such as acceleration, rate of turn, and magnetic field, to predict activities such as standing, climbing, running, and jogging, collected from various sensors. Our framework dynamically selects between machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) algorithms based on real-time data size and edge device capabilities, ensuring optimal performance and resource utilization. The results for the proposed models are compared and analyzed. The experimental results indicate that among all machine learning methods, Random Forest achieves the highest overall accuracy at 98%, while in deep learning algorithms, both LSTM and GRU reach a maximum accuracy of 98%.