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PAWS: Personal Action Wireless Sensor

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This paper describes a concept for a product called the Personal Action Wireless Sensor (PAWS), a system that estimates human action within a home environment. In this system, a watch-like motion sensor worn by user communicates wirelessly via a network of locator devices, which determine user location to a host computer. The host software combines the inputs of motion, angular position, location, and time to recognize user action.

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  1. Zigbee wireless communication http://www.zigbee.org/

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  3. Kionix accelerometers http://www.kionix.com

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  1. Before Technology Limited, 1650 Stewart Creek Road, , Christina Lake, BC, Canada

    Thomas Dowad

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Dowad, T. PAWS: Personal Action Wireless Sensor. Pers Ubiquit Comput 10, 173–176 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-005-0012-0

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