Hand hygiene monitoring and real-time prompting system

SysCon 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Systems Conference, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 474-478

  Levchenko, Alexander I ^a   Boscart, Veronique M ^a   Fernie, Geoffrey R ^a  

^a TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

embedded system; microcontroller; monitoring

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TESTS; TORONTO;

MICROCONTROLLERS; MONITORING;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861322544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SysCon.2012.6189435     Document Type: Conference Paper

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