NoiseSenseDNN: Modeling DNN for Sensor Data to Mitigate the Effect of Noise in Edge Devices

Edge computing usage in many applications, such as transportation and healthcare, has been becoming popular nowadays. These applications often use deep learning (DL) prediction, which are highly dependent on time-series data collected by the sensors in the edge devices. However, the presence of noise in the on-device sensors negatively affects the sensing output of the DL models. Recently proposed time-series based DL approaches (e.g., SADeepSense) address this issue with the assumption that in the presence of noise, the correlation of sensor inputs in an edge device changes. In this paper, through real experiments, we notice that this assumption may not hold true in the presence of shot noise. To handle this problem, in order to further improve the prediction accuracy, we propose a DL model, namely NoiseSenseDNN, which more accurately extracts the correlation between different sensor inputs over time in the presence of both shot and white noise due to its unique architecture. We further propose a compressed version of NoiseSenseDNN that minimizes the inference time and consumed energy of the edge device while meeting the accuracy requirement. Our experiments on a workstation and a real edge device and three real traces show that NoiseSenseDNN outperforms SADeepSense in accuracy, and the compressed NoiseSenseDNN significantly reduces inference time and energy consumption while meeting the required accuracy.