An intelligent knowledge system for designing, modeling, and recognizing the behavior of elderly people in smart space

Abstract

In this paper, a context-sensitive descriptive language is proposed to design and model the daily living activities of elderly people. The objective is to simplify and represent correctly the knowledge collected by sensors (low level) and to have a relevant recognition of the person’s knowledge (high level). The proposed language is based on several rules and constraints through intelligent meaning. It is dedicated to a better understanding and semantic design and description of the behavior of elderly people. Subsequently, in order to provide a powerful knowledge recognition system, a hybrid Markov model is proposed to recognize and predict the activities designed by the proposed language. The proposed model is adapted to the reasoning of the new language. This allows providing a hierarchical and temporal relationship within the knowledge. It is responsible to recognize and predict the behavior of the elderly people efficiently. The flexibility and the intelligibility of the proposed language is proven and the accuracy of the recognition model is demonstrated which ensures the efficiency of the proposed knowledge recognition system.