Distributed, signal strength-based indoor localization algorithm for use in healthcare environments

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1887-1893

  Wyffels, Jeroen ^a   De Brabanter, Jos ^a   Crombez, Pieter ^b   Verhoeve, Piet ^c   Nauwelaers, Bart ^a   De Strycker, Lieven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Televic Healthcare   (Belgium)

^c IMinds   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Distributed indoor localization; low resources; received signal strength (RSS); scalability

Indexed keywords

NURSING; SCALABILITY;

HEALTHCARE ENVIRONMENTS; HIGH SCALABILITIES; INDOOR LOCALIZATION; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; LOW RESOURCES; NURSE CALL SYSTEMS; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; SIGNAL STRENGTH MEASUREMENTS;

INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS;

HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84904495498     PISSN: 21682194     EISSN: 21682208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2014.2302840     Document Type: Article

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