RFID based hand hygiene compliance monitoring station

Proceedings - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Control System, Computing and Engineering, ICCSCE 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 573-576

  Meydanci, M Akif ^a   Adali, Caglar ^a   Ertas, Metin ^a   Dizbay, Murat ^b   Akan, Aydin ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hand hygiene compliance; microcontrollers; RF ID; wireless monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894180409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCSCE.2013.6720030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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