The key advantage of smart meters over traditional metering devices is their ability to
transfer consumption information to remote data processing systems. Besides enabling the …

This article describes an audio signal processing algorithm to detect water sounds, built in
the context of a larger system aiming to monitor daily activities of elderly people. While …

A significant aging of world population is foreseen for the next decades. Thus, developing
technologies to empower the independency and assist the elderly are becoming of great …

Sounds involving liquid sources are part of everyday life. They form a category of sounds
easily identified by human listeners in different experimental studies. Unlike acoustic models …

Personalization related research has been conducted for decades with the objective of
investigating personal-level effectiveness in irregular or abnormal cases among many types …

Towards persuasive system for efficient use of water resource, we propose a method to
detect" water waste" among water-related activities based on water sound analysis. We …

Water is the most valuable natural resource after air without which a man cannot survive.
The growing demand is forcing fresh water beyond natural replenishment rates. This …

Résumé Avec le vieillissement de la population, le diagnostic et le traitement des démences
telle que la maladie d'Alzheimer constituent des enjeux sociaux de grande importance. Le …

The key advantage of smart meters over traditional metering devices is their ability to
transfer consumption information to remote data processing systems. Besides enabling the …

ABSTRACT A significant aging of world population is foreseen for the next decades. Thus,
developing technologies to empower the independency and assist the elderly are becoming …