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One of those challenges is detecting failures in non-intrusive sensors in the presence of the non-deterministic human behaviour. This paper proposes sensor failure detection and isolation system in the AAL environments equipped with event-driven, ambient binary sensors. Association Rule mining is used to extract fault-free correlations between sensors during the nominal behaviour of the resident. Pruning is then applied to obtain a non-redundant set of rules that captures the strongest correlations between sensors. The pruned rules are then monitored in real-time to update the health status of each sensor according to the satisfaction and\/or unsatisfaction of rules. A sensor is flagged as faulty when its health status falls below a certain threshold. 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