Architecting an event-based pervasive sensing environment in the hospital

IEEE Intelligent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 273-277

  Wu, Bin ^b   George, Roy ^b   Shujaee, Khalil ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Event hierarchies; Event ontology; Events; RFID; Sensor networks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DETECTORS; HEALTH; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION THEORY; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; ONTOLOGY; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); REENGINEERING; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

APPLIED (CO); ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS; EVENT ONTOLOGY; FINE GRAINED; HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT; INTERNATIONAL (CO); OPERATIONAL ASPECTS; OPERATIONAL DATA; PERVASIVE SENSING; PROCESS REENGINEERING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RF ID); REAL-TIME DATA; REPRESENTATION MODEL; SENSOR NODE (SN); SENSORY INFORMATION;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 46249091875     PISSN: 15411672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/IS.2006.348430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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