Smart Home Recognition of Multiple Residents

Smart environments show great promise for use in medical monitoring, energy efficiency, and ubiquitous computing applications. Realization of truly smart environments requires the development of robust methods that can be applied to real world settings, to interpret data from the sensing elements present in the environment. Most research to date, however, handle cases where there is only one resident in the space at a time.

 

This invention provides a number of artificial intelligence tools to address issues of multiple residents within a smart home or other environment using environmental sensors.  In particular, it includes computer-implemented algorithms to estimate the number of individuals in the environment, to track the individuals, and to use this information to boost the performance of activity recognition algorithms amidst a multi-resident setting.

 

Issued Patent, US 9,460,350