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Design a human activity recognition system (from sensors or video).

Recognizing walking, driving, or a fall from a sensor stream is windowed time-series classification, usually on a battery-bound device. The signal is windowing, temporal smoothing, and the on-device constraints most candidates skip. Here is the design.

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Recognizing walking, driving, or a fall from a sensor stream is windowed time-series classification, usually on a battery-bound device. The signal is windowing, temporal smoothing, and the on-device constraints most candidates skip. Here is the design.

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