  Human activity recognition (HAR) by wearable sensor devices embedded in the
Internet of things (IOT) can play a significant role in remote health
monitoring and emergency notification, to provide healthcare of higher
standards. The purpose of this study is to investigate a human activity
recognition method of accrued decision accuracy and speed of execution to be
applicable in healthcare. This method classifies wearable sensor acceleration
time series data of human movement using efficient classifier combination of
feature engineering-based and feature learning-based data representation.
Leave-one-subject-out cross-validation of the method with data acquired from 44
subjects wearing a single waist-worn accelerometer on a smart textile, and
engaged in a variety of 10 activities, yields an average recognition rate of
90%, performing significantly better than individual classifiers. The method
easily accommodates functional and computational parallelization to bring
execution time significantly down.
