Remote monitoring of soldier safety through body posture identification using wearable sensor networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6980, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Biswas, Subir ^a   Quwaider, Muhannad ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Body sensor network; Hidden Markov model; Posture identification; Soldier safety; Tele monitoring

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; POSTURE IDENTIFICATION; SOLDIER SAFETY; TELE-MONITORING;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 43549114031     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.784263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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