Improving data classification accuracy in sensor networks using hybrid outlier detection in HAR

• Published in: Journal of intelligent & fuzzy systems Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 771 - 782
• Main Authors: Gopalakrishnan, Nivetha, Krishnan, Venkatalakshmi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.01.2019; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Algorithms; Anomalies; Computer networks; Data analysis; Data mining; Data transmission; Human activity recognition; Outliers (statistics); Remote sensors; Sensors; Wireless sensor networks; sensor data; human activity; outlier detection; data mining; Classification
• ISSN: 1064-1246; 1875-8967
• DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-181315

Managing and Mining mobile sensor data has become a topic of advanced research in several fields of computer science, such as the distributed systems, the database systems, and data mining. The main objective of the sensor based applications is to make the real-time decision which has been proved to be very challenging due to the high resource-constrained computing and the enormous volume of sensor data generated by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This challenge motivates the sensor research community to explore new data mining techniques to extract information from large continuous raw data streams obtained from WSNs. Existing traditional data mining methods are not directly suited to WSNs due to the aggressive nature of sensor data and the presence of anomalies or outliers in WSNs. This work provides an overview of how traditional outlier detection method algorithms are revised and implemented in the application of Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Based on the limitations of the existing technique, a hybrid outlier detection method is proposed.