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Human Activity Tracking Using RFID Tags

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Overview Human activity tracking using RFID tags is attractive for many applications since it allows unobtrusive and passive estimation of people's activities. This paper focus on how to customize commonly available RFID technology to obtain orientation estimates of human activity in the field of RFID emitter coils. This enables the accurate estimation of human activity tracking for application domains such as retail, home-care, work place-safety, military, manufacturing and others.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	JNT UNIVERSITY	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Mobile - Wireless Communications, RFID

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