Smart medication dispenser: Design, architecture and implementation

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-110

  Tsai, Pei Hsuan ^a   Chen, Tsung Yen ^a   Yu, Chi Ren ^a   Shih, Chi Sheng ^b   Liu, Jane W S ^c  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Action oriented collaboration; Embedded systems; Smart device architecture

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING;

ACTION-ORIENTED; CONTROL STRUCTURE; ERROR PRONE TASKS; MEDICATION ERRORS; NEW FUNCTIONS; SCHEDULING FLEXIBILITY; SMART DEVICES;

DISPENSERS;

EID: 77957133392     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2010.2070970     Document Type: Article

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