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In this work, two different sensor technologies were used to quantify the energy expenditure of ageing adults. To this end, a technological platform based on Raspberry Pi 4, as an elaboration unit, was designed and implemented. It integrates an ambient sensor node, a wearable sensor node and a coordinator node that uses the information provided by the two sensor technologies in a combined manner. Ambient and wearable sensors are used for the real-time recognition of four human postures (standing, sitting, bending and lying down), walking activity and for energy expenditure quantification. An important first aim of this work was to realize a platform with a high level of user acceptability. In fact, through the use of two unobtrusive sensors and a low-cost processing unit, the solution is easily accessible and usable in the domestic environment; moreover, it is versatile since it can be used by end-users who accept being monitored by a specific sensor. Another added value of the platform is the ability to abstract from sensing technologies, as the use of human posture and walking activity for energy expenditure quantification enables the integration of a wide set of devices, provided that they can reproduce the same set of features. The obtained results showed the ability of the proposed platform to automatically quantify energy expenditure, both with each sensing technology and with the combined version. Specifically, for posture and walking activity classification, an average accuracy of 93.8% and 93.3% was obtained, respectively, with the wearable and ambient sensor, whereas an improvement of approximately 4% was reached using data fusion. Consequently, the estimated energy expenditure quantification always had a relative error of less than 3.2% for each end-user involved in the experimentation stage, classifying the high level information (postures and walking activities) with the combined version of the platform, justifying the proposed overall architecture from a hardware and software point of view.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22134893","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,29]],"date-time":"2022-06-29T03:26:37Z","timestamp":1656473197000},"page":"4893","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Ambient and Wearable Sensor Technologies for Energy Expenditure Quantification of Ageing Adults"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8970-3313","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Alessandro","family":"Leone","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, 73100 Lecce, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3374-2433","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gabriele","family":"Rescio","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, 73100 Lecce, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9737-3721","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Giovanni","family":"Diraco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, 73100 Lecce, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5716-5824","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrea","family":"Manni","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, 73100 Lecce, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1312-4593","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pietro","family":"Siciliano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, 73100 Lecce, Italy"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0318-8347","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrea","family":"Caroppo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems, 73100 Lecce, Italy"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"He, W., Goodkind, D., and Kowal, P.R. 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