VAMP - a vision based sensor network for health care hygiene

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dc.contributor.authorCurran, Padraig
dc.contributor.authorBuckley, John
dc.contributor.authorO'Flynn, Brendan
dc.contributor.authorLi, Xuchun
dc.contributor.authorZhou, Jiang
dc.contributor.authorLacey, Gerard
dc.contributor.authorÓ Mathúna, S. Cian
dc.contributor.editorKatashev, Alexei
dc.contributor.editorDekhtyar, Yuri
dc.contributor.editorSpigulis, Janis
dc.contributor.funderEnterprise Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-07T14:12:10Z
dc.date.available2009-11-07T14:12:10Z
dc.date.copyright2008
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractAdequate hand-washing has been shown to be a critical activity in preventing the transmission of infections such as MRSA in health-care environments. Hand-washing guidelines published by various health-care related institutions recommend a technique incorporating six hand-washing poses that ensure all areas of the hands are thoroughly cleaned. In this paper, an embedded wireless vision system (VAMP) capable of accurately monitoring hand-washing quality is presented. The VAMP system hardware consists of a low resolution CMOS image sensor and FPGA processor which are integrated with a microcontroller and ZigBee standard wireless transceiver to create a wireless sensor network (WSN) based vision system that can be retargeted at a variety of health care applications. The device captures and processes images locally in real-time, determines if hand-washing procedures have been correctly undertaken and then passes the resulting high-level data over a low-bandwidth wireless link. The paper outlines the hardware and software mechanisms of the VAMP system and illustrates that it offers an easy to integrate sensor solution to adequately monitor and improve hand hygiene quality. Future work to develop a miniaturized, low cost system capable of being integrated into everyday products is also discussed.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEnterprise Ireland (Informatics Commercialization initiative CFTD 06/216); Science Foundation Ireland (CSET - Centre for Science Engineering and Technology)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationCurran, P., Buckley, J., O'Flynn, B., Li, X., Zhou, J., Lacey, G., Ó Mathúna, S.C. 2008. VAMP - a vision based sensor network for health care hygiene. In: NBC '08 14th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering Riga, Latvia 9-13 June, 2008.en
dc.identifier.endpage488
dc.identifier.isbn9783540693673
dc.identifier.issn1680-0737
dc.identifier.journaltitleIFMBE proceedings
dc.identifier.startpage485
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/97
dc.identifier.volume20
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.ispartof14th Nordic-Baltic Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics NBC 2008 : 16-20 June 2008, Riga, Latvia
dc.relation.urihttp://bija.rtu.lv/nbc14/en
dc.rights© Padraig Curran et al.en
dc.subjectHand-washingen
dc.subjectIntelligent Vision Systemen
dc.subjectFPGAen
dc.subjectCMOS Image Sensoren
dc.subject.lcshWireless sensor networksen
dc.titleVAMP - a vision based sensor network for health care hygieneen
dc.typeConference itemen
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