I am collecting data from a sensor over time, and I'm trying to figure out how to detect "events" in the data - specifically, when a given event begins and ends. The frequency, duration, and amplitude of these events varies.
Rather than using some rules-based scheme that proves to be rather ineffective, I want to train a model to detect these events for me. An example of my data (in only one dimension; I have multiple variables that I'm reading) looks like this:
There's one event here and some baseline data on either side.
My raw data before and during this event looks like:
1/1/2016 12:48:03 14.2
1/1/2016 12:48:04 12.8
1/1/2016 12:48:05 13.6
1/1/2016 12:48:06 13.5
1/1/2016 12:48:07 12.9
1/1/2016 12:48:08 15
...
1/1/2016 12:48:34 27.7
1/1/2016 12:48:35 30.3
1/1/2016 12:48:36 31
1/1/2016 12:48:37 32.8
1/1/2016 12:48:38 31.1
1/1/2016 12:48:39 28.7
1/1/2016 12:48:40 32.1
...
I have training data consisting of raw readings and timestamps that I can correlate to a truthset of event start and end times, but I don't know how I should go about featurizing to build a model. I assume I would keep a window of, say, 30 seconds or a minute of readings. (Events are typically more than a minute long, but I don't know whether I would need my window to contain the entire event.)
I'm familiar (but not an expert) with regression and boosted trees, and I know of tools that can generate code I can use without third-party libraries. But I don't know whether these are feasible approaches to solving my problem.
How can I go about detecting these events?
Edit: After some discussion, I've created the following graph to show what more data might look like from different signals. The duration of the manually labeled event is in blue (using the right axis labeled 0/1). Three signals show up strongly:
- Red covers the overall event reasonably well and is essentially the above example
- Purple-blue has an even stronger signal but only for the first half or so of the event
- Yellow-green has a stronger signal than reed for maybe a third of the event, but basically after purple-blue dies off.
Some signals (eg, the bottom-most orange on the left side) have an increase during the event. These either have a weak signal that should be captured or have no signal; however, it's not obvious whether any correlations between these signals and events exist, and if so, how to extract them.