Wi-CAS: A Contactless Method for Continuous Indoor Human Activity Sensing Using Wi-Fi Devices

Abstract

With the new coronavirus raging around the world, home isolation has become an effective way to interrupt the spread of the virus. Effective monitoring of people in home isolation has also become a pressing issue. However, the large number of isolated people and the privatized isolated spaces pose challenges for traditional sensing techniques. Ubiquitous Wi-Fi offers new ideas for sensing people indoors. Advantages such as low cost, wide deployment, and high privacy make indoor human activity sensing technology based on Wi-Fi signals increasingly used. Therefore, this paper proposes a contactless indoor person continuous activity sensing method based on Wi-Fi signal Wi-CAS. The method allows for the sensing of continuous movements of home isolated persons. Wi-CAS designs an ensemble classification method based on Hierarchical Clustering (HEC) for the classification of different actions, which effectively improves the action classification accuracy while reducing the processing time. We have conducted extensive experimental evaluations in real home environments. By recording the activities of different people throughout the day, Wi-CAS is very sensitive to unusual activities of people and also has a combined activity recognition rate of 94.3%. The experimental results show that our proposed method provides a low-cost and highly robust solution for supervising the activities of home isolates.