# You Are What You Use: Usage-based Profiling in IoT Environments

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02298 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.02298/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 6 Sep 2022.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Positional Encoding-based Resident Identification in Multi-resident Smart Homes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.17836/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Habit extraction is essential to automate services and provide appliance usage insights in the smart home environment. However, habit extraction comes with plenty of challenges in viewing typical start and end times for particular activities. This paper introduces a novel way of identifying habits using an ensemble of unsupervised clustering techniques. We use different clustering algorithms to extract habits based on how static or dynamic they are. Silhouette coefficients and a novel noise metric are utilized to extract habits appropriately. Furthermore, we associate the extracted habits with time intervals and a confidence score to denote how confident we are that a habit is likely to occur at that time.