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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Noninvasive Acoustic Recognition of Water Flow Sources for Human Activity Monitoring in Smart Homes.

Sara Comai, Michele Cortinovis, Riccardo Girelli, Fabio Salice

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Sara ComaiDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9554-8815
Michele CortinovisDepartment of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0009-0006-0831-8306
Riccardo GirelliDepartment of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.
Fabio SaliceDepartment of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0434-0446

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper presents a noninvasive system for identifying water flow sources with the final goal of supporting human activity recognition (HAR) in activities of daily living (ADL). The system employs a single microphone to capture ambient sounds within a room and detects active water sources based on their acoustic signatures. The audio signals are converted into time-resolved spectrograms, which are processed via time- and frequency-domain convolution and subsequently classified using a neural network. This approach enables both the identification of specific water sources, even combined, and the measurement of their usage duration with an overall accuracy of 90.6%. The study focuses on four common bathroom fixtures: toilet, bidet, shower, and washbasin. The proposed system is adaptable to various environments, requires no modifications to plumbing infrastructure, making it suitable for smart home and digital health applications.

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AcousticsHuman ActivitiesWaterActivities of Daily LivingHumansNeural Networks, ComputerWateracoustic sensingactivities of daily living (ADL)digital healthhuman activity recognition (HAR)smart home monitoringspectrogram analysiswater flow recognition

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PMID41095044
PMCPMC12526704

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