Hyperfloor

ABSTRACT

This paper presents the vision of the Hyperfloor, a local positioning system offering the possibility of local positioning of staff, personnel, visitors, patients and equipment in a hospital environment. The HyperFloor vision is based on camera recognition of floor patterns with a correspondence through wireless networks to a database. The HyperFloor offers a robust supplement to other local positioning systems and can be used by networked camera based devices used by patients or brought by visitors.

REFERENCES

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems

Keywords:
healthcare, local positioning, pattern recognition