Deep Learning for Walking Behaviour Detection in Elderly People Using Smart Footwear

Aznar-Gimeno, Rocío ; Labata-Lezaun, Gorka ; Adell-Lamora, Ana ; Abadía-Gallego, David (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; del-Hoyo-Alonso, Rafael ; González-Muñoz, Carlos

Resumen: The increase in the proportion of elderly in Europe brings with it certain challenges that society needs to address, such as custodial care. We propose a scalable, easily modulated and live assistive technology system, based on a comfortable smart footwear capable of detecting walking behaviour, in order to prevent possible health problems in the elderly, facilitating their urban life as independently and safety as possible. This brings with it the challenge of handling the large amounts of data generated, transmitting and pre-processing that information and analysing it with the aim of obtaining useful information in real/near-real time. This is the basis of information theory. This work presents a complete system aiming at elderly people that can detect different user behaviours/events (sitting, standing without imbalance, standing with imbalance, walking, running, tripping) through information acquired from 20 types of sensor measurements (16 piezoelectric pressure sensors, one accelerometer returning reading for the 3 axis and one temperature sensor) and warn the relatives about possible risks in near-real time. For the detection of these events, a hierarchical structure of cascading binary models is designed and applied using artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms and deep learning techniques. The best models are achieved with convolutional layered ANN and multilayer perceptrons. The overall event detection performance achieves an average accuracy and area under the ROC curve of 0.84 and 0.96, respectively.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/e23060777

Año: 2021

Publicado en: ENTROPY 23, 6 (2021), 777 [19 pp.]
ISSN: 1099-4300

Factor impacto JCR: 2.738 (2021)

Categ. JCR: PHYSICS, MULTIDISCIPLINARY rank: 42 / 86 = 0.488 (2021) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 4.4 - Physics and Astronomy (Q2)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.553 - Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Q2) - Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Information Systems (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/760789/EU/Metallisation of Textiles to make Urban living for Older people more Independent Fashionable/MATUROLIFE

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Ingen.Sistemas y Automát. (Dpto. Informát.Ingenie.Sistms.)