eWellness: Building a smart hospital by leveraging RFID networks

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 3826-3829

  Wu, B ^a   Liu, Z ^a   George, R ^a   Shujaee, K A ^a  

^a CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Edgeware; Event based paradigm; Hospital; Ontology; RFID; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HOSPITALS; MIDDLEWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EDGEWARE; EVENT-BASED PARADIGM; ONTOLOGY; OPERATIONAL ASPECTS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSORS;

EID: 33846904806     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1615294     Document Type: Conference Paper

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