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Such datasets are an integral part of the visualisation of new smart home concepts as well as the validation and evaluation of emerging machine learning models. Machine learning techniques that can learn ADLs from sensor readings are used to classify, predict and detect anomalous patterns. Such techniques require data that represent relevant smart home scenarios, for training, testing and validation. However, the development of such machine learning techniques is limited by the lack of real smart home datasets, due to the excessive cost of building real smart homes. This paper provides two datasets for classification and anomaly detection. The datasets are generated using OpenSHS, (Open Smart Home Simulator), which is a simulation software for dataset generation. OpenSHS records the daily activities of a participant within a virtual environment. Seven participants simulated their ADLs for different contexts, e.g., weekdays, weekends, mornings and evenings. Eighty-four files in total were generated, representing approximately 63 days worth of activities. Forty-two files of classification of ADLs were simulated in the classification dataset and the other forty-two files are for anomaly detection problems in which anomalous patterns were simulated and injected into the anomaly detection dataset.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/data3020011","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,2]],"date-time":"2018-04-02T12:32:20Z","timestamp":1522672340000},"page":"11","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["SIMADL: Simulated Activities of Daily Living Dataset"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"3","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4472-1841","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Talal","family":"Alshammari","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Staffordshire University, College Road, ST4 2DE Stoke-on-Trent, UK"},{"name":"College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Hail, Hail 81481, Saudi Arabia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4374-3675","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nasser","family":"Alshammari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Staffordshire University, College Road, ST4 2DE Stoke-on-Trent, UK"},{"name":"College of Information and Computer Science, Al Jouf University, Sakaka 72388, Saudi Arabia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9169-2449","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohamed","family":"Sedky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Staffordshire University, College Road, ST4 2DE Stoke-on-Trent, UK"}]},{"given":"Chris","family":"Howard","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Staffordshire University, College Road, ST4 2DE Stoke-on-Trent, UK"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,4,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2018, March 31). 8.4 Billion Connected Things Will Be in Use in 2017, Up 31 Percent from 2016. 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