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This paper deals with the smart house occupant prediction issue based on daily life activities. Based on data provided by nonintrusive sensors and devices, our approach use supervised learning technics to predict the house occupant. We applied support vector machines classifier to build a behavior classification model and learn the users’ habits when they perform activities for predicting and identifying the house occupant among a group of inhabitants. We analyzed the publicly available dataset from the Washington State University smart apartment tesbed. We particulary studied the grooming, having breakfast and bed to toilet activities. The results showed a hight prediction precision and demonstrated that each user has his own manner to perform his daily activities and can be easily identified by just learning his habit.
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Kadouche, R., Chikhaoui, B. & Abdulrazak, B. User’s behavior study for smart houses occupant prediction. Ann. Telecommun. 65, 539–543 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-010-0166-2
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