**1. Introduction**

According to the United Nations [1], in 2025, there would be a total of about 1.2 billion people over the age of 60. By 2050 this number would increase to 2 billion with 80% of them living in developing countries. The population growth has increased for older persons than for the rest of the population. In 1950 the total number of people over 60 years old was 8 percent. By 2007, this percentage had grown to 11 percent. By 2050, this number is projected to be at 22 percent. This kind of population growth comes with various challenges of its own [2].

This increase in the elderly population means more people would require assistive living care than they were before. Thus, Smart houses could play a key role in attending to this huge elderly population that needs assistive living care. A smart house is a special type of house that has automated services delivered by that house. Smart houses are of diverse types based on their purpose. Some of the common types of

smart houses include (a) healthcare-oriented, (b) entertainment-oriented (c) security-oriented, and (d) energy-efficiency-oriented smart houses. In this research, we present a smart house model that is based on specific requirements for elderly citizens. With an emphasis on the needs of assistive technologies (AT), we shall recommend a smart house design. The design shall satisfy three major requirements which are vital for senior citizens. These three requirements are; (a) ATs services, (a) privacy requirements, and (c) security services. We are aiming to develop a smart house system which consists of several monitoring services This system should also enable modularization and allow easier replacement of components.

With the vast improvements in medicine and quality of living, many people are now living longer lives than previously was possible. This has been a result of vast investment in research that will improve quality of life. In trying to improve the quality of life, several researchers have attempted to provide a solution to care for senior citizens [3]. These solutions need enhancement to build completely novel solutions to deal with the growing demand for senior citizen care soon. The purpose of this work is to explore how this problem can be controlled using assistive technologies. To help assist with this issue we shall have to perform three experiments. We need to create a system that can be able to tell when an anomaly has occurred in the senior's smart house. This requires knowing what is and what is not an anomaly. We have data that is recorded from the activity in the smart house using a conventional sensor such as those in mobile phone sensors or smartwatches. We shall require label data to determine if the data tread is normal or abnormal. This can be achieved by using the labeling used in the previous experiment dataset. Several publicly available datasets exist. Among the common dataset include Sisfall, MobiAct, Ucihar, Unifall, and Unimab datasets [4–6]. These datasets provide acceptable benchmarks to determine the classification of ADLs and falls. These could be used in the classification of data, or to assess a system's accuracy.

In a smart house, assistive technologies are installed to detect abnormalities in human activity or environmental parameters. This is achieved using several methods. Three of the common methods are threshold, heuristics, and machine learning [7]. Threshold systems used specified rules in which a dataset is evaluated on those rules. Based on these rules a censored dataset can be labeled as a fall or not a fall. Using machine learning a different approach is used. A network is created which has node relationships that can be able to determine whether an activity is a fall or not has occurred. ML works similarly to a Blackbox solution as the rules are not logically deductible easily in the network c. Several machine learning classification algorithms exist in the labeling of subject data. Nine of the common classical ML algorithms are k-Means, Linear discriminant analysis (LDA), Naïve-Bayes, K-nearest neighbor (KNN), Vector support machine (SVM), Artificial neural network (ANN), Random Forest, and Decision trees [8].

Moreover, when collecting personal data, security and privacy should be considered. For example, cameras might capture more private information than smartwatches, some of this information can violate privacy. When using the toilet, the activity is not appropriate to record on camera while a smartwatch record of toilet activity might be more acceptable. Hence the choice of sensor method is especially important in developing this system. However, take note that it may be easy for detecting activity with a camera than with smartwatches. Therefore, a compromise needs to be considered in such cases.

The rest of this article is organized as follows; In Section 2, we describe some of the previous works related to ours by other researchers. In Section 3 we describe the

*Autonomous Update of a Dataset for Anomaly Detection Services in Elderly Care Smart House DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.103953*

methodology of what would be performed and how it would be performed. The section describes the flow of the algorithm and the dataset used. We then discuss the results of the experimental works in Section 4. In Section 5 we discuss issues that are related to our results and the future directions of this research. In Section 6 we present our findings and conclusion from this research and what is next.
