It is important for older and disabled people who live alone to be able to cope with the daily challenges of living at home. In order to support independent living, the Smart Home Care (SHC) concept offers the possibility of providing comfortable control of operational and technical functions using a mobile robot for operating and assisting activities to support independent living for elderly and disabled people. This article presents a unique proposal for the implementation of interoperability between a mobile robot and KNX technology in a home environment within SHC automation to determine the presence of people and occupancy of occupied spaces in SHC using measured operational and technical variables (to determine the quality of the indoor environment), such as temperature, relative humidity, light intensity, and CO2 concentration, and to locate occupancy in SHC spaces using magnetic contacts monitoring the opening/closing of windows and doors by indirectly monitoring occupancy without the use of cameras. In this article, a novel method using nonlinear autoregressive Neural Networks (NN) with exogenous inputs and nonlinear autoregressive is used to predict the CO2 concentration waveform to transmit the information from KNX technology to mobile robots for monitoring and determining the occupancy of people in SHC with better than 98% accuracy.

• Keywords
• KNX technology, Smart Home Care, localization, mobile robot, occupancy, presence,
• MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Carbon Dioxide MeSH
• Robotics * methods   MeSH
• Independent Living MeSH
• Aged MeSH
• Home Care Services * MeSH
• Technology MeSH
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• Humans MeSH
• Aged MeSH
• Publication type
• Journal Article MeSH
• Names of Substances
• Carbon Dioxide MeSH

The study deals with detection of the occupation of Intelligent Building (IB) using data obtained from indirect methods with Big Data Analysis within IoT. In the area of daily living activity monitoring, one of the most challenging tasks is occupancy prediction, giving us information about people's mobility in the building. This task can be done via monitoring of CO2 as a reliable method, which has the ambition to predict the presence of the people in specific areas. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid system, which is based on the Support Vector Machine (SVM) prediction of the CO2 waveform with the use of sensors that measure indoor/outdoor temperature and relative humidity. For each such prediction, we also record the gold standard CO2 signal to objectively compare and evaluate the quality of the proposed system. Unfortunately, this prediction is often linked with a presence of predicted signal activities in the form of glitches, often having an oscillating character, which inaccurately approximates the real CO2 signals. Thus, the difference between the gold standard and the prediction results from SVM is increasing. Therefore, we employed as the second part of the proposed system a smoothing procedure based on Wavelet transformation, which has ambitions to reduce inaccuracies in predicted signal via smoothing and increase the accuracy of the whole prediction system. The whole system is completed with an optimization procedure based on the Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm, which finally classifies the wavelet's response to recommend the most suitable wavelet settings to be used for data smoothing.

• Keywords
• Activities monitoring with indirect methods, Big data processing, Prediction of room occupancy, Presence of person monitoring, Smart home,
• Publication type
• Journal Article MeSH

Wavelet transformation is one of the most frequent procedures for data denoising, smoothing, decomposition, features extraction, and further related tasks. In order to perform such tasks, we need to select appropriate wavelet settings, including particular wavelet, decomposition level and other parameters, which form the wavelet transformation outputs. Selection of such parameters is a challenging area due to absence of versatile recommendation tools for suitable wavelet settings. In this paper, we propose a versatile recommendation system for prediction of suitable wavelet selection for data smoothing. The proposed system is aimed to generate spatial response matrix for selected wavelets and the decomposition levels. Such response enables the mapping of selected evaluation parameters, determining the efficacy of wavelet settings. The proposed system also enables tracking the dynamical noise influence in the context of Wavelet efficacy by using volumetric response. We provide testing on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) image data and EMG signals mostly of musculoskeletal system to objectivise system usability for clinical data processing. The experimental testing is done by using evaluation parameters such is MSE (Mean Squared Error), ED (Euclidean distance) and Corr (Correlation index). We also provide the statistical analysis of the results based on Mann-Whitney test, which points out on statistically significant differences for individual Wavelets for the data corrupted with Salt and Pepper and Gaussian noise.

• Keywords
• Coiflet wavelet, Daubechies wavelet, Symlet wavelet, spatial and volumetric modeling, wavelet transformation,
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• Algorithms * MeSH
• Electromyography * MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging * MeSH
• Normal Distribution MeSH
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed * MeSH
• Wavelet Analysis * MeSH
• Check Tag
• Humans MeSH
• Publication type
• Journal Article MeSH