Efficient Online Classification and Tracking on Resource-constrained IoT Devices

Abstract

Timely processing has been increasingly required on smart IoT devices, which leads to directly implementing information processing tasks on an IoT device for bandwidth savings and privacy assurance. Particularly, monitoring and tracking the observed signals in continuous form are common tasks for a variety of near real-time processing IoT devices, such as in smart homes, body-area, and environmental sensing applications. However, these systems are likely low-cost resource-constrained embedded systems, equipped with compact memory space, whereby the ability to store the full information state of continuous signals is limited. Hence, in this article,* we develop solutions of efficient timely processing embedded systems for online classification and tracking of continuous signals with compact memory space. Particularly, we focus on the application of smart plugs that are capable of timely classification of appliance types and tracking of appliance behavior in a standalone manner. We implemented a smart plug prototype using low-cost Arduino platform with small amount of memory space to demonstrate the following timely processing operations: (1) learning and classifying the patterns associated with the continuous power consumption signals and (2) tracking the occurrences of signal patterns using small local memory space. Furthermore, our system designs are also sufficiently generic for timely monitoring and tracking applications in other resource-constrained IoT devices.

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