Design and implementation of a sensor-based wireless camera system for continuous monitoring in assistive environments

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 499-510

  Li, Nan ^a   Yan, Bo ^a   Chen, Guanling ^a   Govindaswamy, Prabhu ^b   Wang, Jie ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b QUALCOMM INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous monitoring; Sensor based localization; Wireless camera networks

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; BANDWIDTH CONSUMPTION; CAMERA IMAGES; CAMERA SURVEILLANCE; COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; HAND OFF; HUMAN OPERATOR; IMAGE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATED CAMERAS; MOVING SUBJECT; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; REDUCED COST; SELF-ORGANIZING WIRELESS; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS BACKBONE; WIRELESS CAMERA NETWORKS; WIRELESS CAMERAS; WIRELESS SENSOR;

CAMERAS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MESH NETWORKING; MONITORING; SENSORS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956228623     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-009-0271-2     Document Type: Article

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