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The Weakly Identifying System for Doorway Monitoring

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2007-05-10
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Jenkins, Christopher James
Advisors
Ellis, Carla
Brady, David
Cox, Landon
Parr, Ron
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The System Architecture for Tracking Individuals (SAFTI) is an indoor person location tracking system designed for use in the field of pervasive computing. SAFTI provides location tracking in environments where cameras are too privacy invasive, where tracking devices are too costly, insecure or inconvenient, and where usability is a high priority. While many location tracking systems satisfy each of these constraints individually, SAFTI satisfies all three constraints simultaneously. Upon entering and exiting SAFTI buildings, users submit identification credentials. Once inside the building, using SAFTI is effortless - simply passing through doorways is sufficient for supplying SAFTI with the information it needs to perform location tracking. An integral part of SAFTI is the Weakly Identifying System for Doorway Monitoring (WISDOM). These instrumented doorways contain a variety of infrared, ultrasonic and pressure sensors that detect the direction of passage and measure each user's body size and shape. We quantify the measurement and identification accuracy of WISDOM by analyzing data collected from a user study containing 530 passes through a WISDOM prototype from 10 different subjects. We combine the results from WISDOM with large publicly available anthropometric databases to evaluate how accurately SAFTI performs location tracking with respect to building size, density of occupants, and matching algorithm used.
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Dissertation
Department
Computer Science
Subject
pervasive computing
biometrics
location
tracking
ambient
recognition
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/204
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Jenkins, Christopher James (2007). The Weakly Identifying System for Doorway Monitoring. Dissertation, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/204.
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