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Mimic Sensors: Battery-Shaped Sensor Node for Detecting Electrical Events of Handheld Devices

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Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2012)

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In this paper we propose and implement a battery-shaped sensor node that can monitor the use of an electrical device into which it is inserted by sensing the electrical current passing through the device. We live surrounded by large numbers of electrical devices and frequently use them in our daily lives, and so we can estimate high-level daily activities by recognizing their use. Therefore, many ubiquitous and wearable sensing studies have attempted to recognize the use of electrical devices by attaching sensor nodes to the devices directly or by attaching multiple sensors to a user. With our node, we can easily monitor the use of an electrical device simply by inserting the node into the battery case of the device. We also propose a method that automatically identifies into which electrical device the sensor node is inserted and recognizes electrical events related to the device by analyzing the current sensor data. We evaluated our method by using sensor data obtained from three real houses and achieved very high identification and recognition accuracies.

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  1. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Japan

    Takuya Maekawa

  2. NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan

    Yasue Kishino, Yutaka Yanagisawa & Yasushi Sakurai

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  1. School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Australia

    Judy Kay

  2. DFKI GmbH, Embedded Intelligence, Trippstadter Straße 122, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Paul Lukowicz

  3. Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, 5322, Endo, 252-8520, Fujisawa City, Kanagawa, Japan

    Hideyuki Tokuda

  4. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, UK

    Patrick Olivier

  5. DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Maekawa, T., Kishino, Y., Yanagisawa, Y., Sakurai, Y. (2012). Mimic Sensors: Battery-Shaped Sensor Node for Detecting Electrical Events of Handheld Devices. In: Kay, J., Lukowicz, P., Tokuda, H., Olivier, P., Krüger, A. (eds) Pervasive Computing. Pervasive 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31205-2_2

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