Long-Term Activity Monitoring and Gait Analysis for Health Status Assessments, using a Large-Area Sensor Floor

Abstract

A person's daily routine is a valuable early indicator of a changing health status. Ageing diseases in an early stage have an impact on measurable behaviors like sleeping times and quality, consistency of activity sequences and gait characteristics. Unfortunately, these interesting parameters of daily routine are hard to assess. In this work a large-area sensor floor system is described, that is able to document the daily routine automatically, unobtrusively and over long periods of time.