RESIMA: An assistive paradigm to support weak people in indoor environments

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2522-2528

  Ando, Bruno ^a   Baglio, Salvatore ^a   Lombardo, Cristian O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambient assistive living (AAL); smart localization; user environment interaction (UEI); well being; Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN).

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE; ASSISTIVE LIVING; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; SMART LOCALIZATION; USER-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION (UEI); WELL BEING;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84908029793     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2014.2320396     Document Type: Article

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