Predicting Human Movement Patterns in an Office Environment

Sammanfattning: This project is built on the idea of predicting future human movement in an area. The algorithm’s predictions are based on previous movements in the area which has to be recorded somehow. For this a device with a motion sensor was setup to monitor the movement in a hallway in an office. This data was then used to test and evaluate the prediction algorithm. To give feedback about the movement and how it is changing to the people working in the office the setup device shows sentences on a monitor which describes the movement. The project resulted in a fully working application which measures people walking by, both when and how fast, and predicts future movement. Due to time constraints of the project the device was only up and running for two weeks. This is enough time to get some understanding of how well the prediction algorithm works, but a longer experiment time would have further helped the evaluation. The results showed that the algorithm can predict most of the events during the day, but is bad at predicting sudden spikes or other unusual behavior.