The results demonstrate the feasibility of a stateful contactless sensing-to-action architecture for long-term home health monitoring and integrates sensing, temporal state, reasoning, and action into a unified and auditable loop.
Abstract
Population aging is increasing the need to monitor older adults safely and independently at home. However, cameras, wearables, and manual checks often introduce privacy, adherence, and attention burdens that hinder sustained health monitoring. This paper presents SuperSenseDoctor, a multimodal contactless agent architecture for long-term home health tracking. The system transforms WiFi, mmWave radar, and surface temperature into a persistent human health state. The system relies on fixed decision rules to conduct continuous daily monitoring and respond to pre-defined hazards. When abnormal signals appear, event-driven reasoning analyzes only standardized evidence to produce traceable care-support measures. In this manner, SuperSenseDoctor integrates sensing, temporal state, reasoning, and action into a unified and auditable loop. The calibrated multimodal pipeline achieves 1.994 bpm mean absolute error (MAE) and 3.142 bpm root mean square deviation (RMSD) for heart rate, 0.197 bpm MAE and 0.263 bpm RMSD for respiratory rate, and 96.5% fall-recognition accuracy. The evaluation also covers 2686 one-second states across 9 chronological intervals and reaches a 96.7% criterion-level Agent checklist pass rate. These results demonstrate the feasibility of a stateful contactless sensing-to-action architecture for long-term home health monitoring.
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