Distributed Abnormal Activity Detection in Smart Environments

Chengliang Wang, Qian Zheng, Yayun Peng, Debraj De and Wen-Zhan Song

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2014, vol. 10, issue 5, 283197

Abstract: The abnormal activity detection in smart environments has experienced increasing attention over years, due to its usefulness in pervasive applications. In order to meet the real-time needs and overcome the high costs and privacy issues, this paper proposes distributed abnormal activity detection approach ( DetectingAct ), which employs the computing and storage resources of simple and ubiquitous sensor nodes, to detect abnormal activity in smart environments equipped with wireless sensor networks (WSN). In DetectingAct , activity is defined as the combination of trajectory and duration , and abnormal activity is defined as the activity which deviates greater enough from those normal activities. DetectingAct works as follows. Firstly, DetectingAct finds the normal activity patterns through duration-dependent frequent pattern mining algorithm (DFPMA), which adopts unsupervised learning instead of supervised learning. Secondly, the distributed knowledge storage mechanism (DKSM) is introduced to store the mined patterns in each node. Then, the current triggered sensor adopts distributed abnormal activity detection algorithm (DAADA), in which the clustering analysis plays a critical role, to compare the present activity with normal activity patterns, by calculating the similarity between them. The feasibility, real-time property, and accuracy of the DetectingAct algorithm are evaluated using both simulation and real experiments case studies.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1155/2014/283197

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