IWalker: Toward a rollator-mounted wayfinding system for the elderly

2008 IEEE International Conference on RFID (Frequency Identification), IEEE RFID 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 303-311

  Kulyukin, Vladimir ^a   Kutiyanawala, Aliasgar ^a   LoPresti, Edmund ^b   Matthews, Judith ^c   Simpson, Richard ^c  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

^b AT Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY; EMBEDDED SENSORS; FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTI SENSORS; NAVIGATION AIDS; PHYSICAL SPACE; UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH; WAY-FINDING;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS;

SENSORS;

EID: 49049099696     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFID.2008.4519363     Document Type: Conference Paper

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