Embedded system for hygiene compliance monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 695-698

  Levchenko, Alexander I ^a   Hufton, Graham C ^a   Boscart, Veronique M ^a   Fernie, Geoff R ^b  

^a TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; infrared tracking; intelligent systems; microcontrollers

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE MONITORING; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; INFRARED TRACKING; NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE;

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MICROCONTROLLERS;

MONITORING;

EID: 77954384599     PISSN: 15455955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASE.2010.2044882     Document Type: Article

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