Home Activity Recognition for Rural Elderly Based on Deep Learning and Smartphone Sensors

Abstract

With the exacerbation of the rural aging population trend, home-based health monitoring for the rural elderly has become a societal focal point, demanding an effective technological means to elevate the level of rural elderly health management. However, traditional algorithms for monitoring rural elderly behavior face myriad challenges, such as effectively capturing temporal and spatial features. Consequently, addressing the need to enhance the accuracy and robustness of rural elderly behavior recognition has become an urgent problem to solve. This study responds to this challenge by comprehensively employing deep learning and temporal modeling techniques, designing, and validating a short-term and long-term dual-layer home-based health monitoring system for the rural elderly.In the short-term layer, the model utilizes smartphones to collect health information from the rural elderly in various ways and performs real-time anomaly behavior detection.