A novel seat occupancy detection system based on capacitive sensing

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1515-1519

  George, Boby ^a   Zangl, Hubert ^a   Bretterklieber, Thomas ^a   Brasseur, Georg ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Capacitive sensor; Carrier frequency based measurement; Electrostatic sensing; Seat occupancy detection

Indexed keywords

AIR BAGS; CAPACITIVE SENSOR; CARRIER FREQUENCY BASED MEASUREMENT; ELECTROSTATIC SENSING; SEAT OCCUPANCY DETECTION;

INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 51349083320     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547283     Document Type: Conference Paper

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