VAMP - A vision based sensor network for health care hygiene

IFMBE Proceedings

Volumn 20 IFMBE, Issue , 2008, Pages 485-488

  Curran, Padraig ^a   Buckley, J ^a   O'Flynn, B ^a   Li, X ^b   Zhou, J ^b   Lacey, G ^b   O'Mathuna, S C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

CMOS Image Sensor; FPGA; Hand washing; Intelligent Vision System; Wireless Sensor Network

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL CAMERAS; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); HEALTH CARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SENSORS; MEDICAL PHYSICS; RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; WASHING; ZIGBEE;

CMOS IMAGE SENSOR; CRITICAL ACTIVITIES; HAND WASHING; HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE; HEALTH CARE APPLICATION; INTELLIGENT VISION SYSTEMS; VISION-BASED SENSORS; WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78049375577     PISSN: 16800737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69367-3_130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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