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- Title
Daily Living Activity Recognition with Frequency-Shift WiFi Backscatter Tags †.
- Authors
Iseda, Hikoto; Yasumoto, Keiichi; Uchiyama, Akira; Higashino, Teruo
- Abstract
To provide diverse in-home services like elderly care, versatile activity recognition technology is essential. Radio-based methods, including WiFi CSI, RFID, and backscatter communication, are preferred due to their minimal privacy intrusion, reduced physical burden, and low maintenance costs. However, these methods face challenges, including environmental dependence, proximity limitations between the device and the user, and untested accuracy amidst various radio obstacles such as furniture, appliances, walls, and other radio waves. In this paper, we propose a frequency-shift backscatter tag-based in-home activity recognition method and test its feasibility in a near-real residential setting. Consisting of simple components such as antennas and switches, these tags facilitate ultra-low power consumption and demonstrate robustness against environmental noise because a context corresponding to a tag can be obtained by only observing frequency shifts. We implemented a sensing system consisting of SD-WiFi, a software-defined WiFi AP, and physical switches on backscatter tags tailored for detecting the movements of daily objects. Our experiments demonstrate that frequency shifts by tags can be detected within a 2 m range with 72% accuracy under the line of sight (LoS) conditions and achieve a 96.0% accuracy (F-score) in recognizing seven typical daily living activities with an appropriate receiver/transmitter layout. Furthermore, in an additional experiment, we confirmed that increasing the number of overlaying packets enables frequency shift-detection even without LoS at distances of 3–5 m.
- Subjects
BACKSCATTERING; ACTIVITIES of daily living; RADIO frequency identification systems; WIDE area networks; RADIO waves; MAINTENANCE costs; ANTENNAS (Electronics)
- Publication
Sensors (14248220), 2024, Vol 24, Issue 11, p3277
- ISSN
1424-8220
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/s24113277