Recognizing daily activities with RFID-based sensors

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-60

  Buettner, Michael ^a   Prasad, Richa ^a   Philipose, Matthai ^b   Wetherall, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity detection; RFID; Sensor networks; WISP

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DETECTION; DAILY ACTIVITY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INDOOR ACTIVITIES; PRECISION AND RECALL; RECOGNITION RATES; RFID READERS; RFID SENSORS; SENSOR DATA; UHF RFID;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; RADIO NAVIGATION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 70450164056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1620545.1620553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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