Human tracking with wireless distributed pyroelectric sensors

Qi Hao; David J. Brady; Bob D. Guenther; John B. Burchett; Mohan Shankar; Steve Feller

doi:10.1109/JSEN.2006.884562

Human tracking with wireless distributed pyroelectric sensors

Qi Hao, David J. Brady, Bob D. Guenther, John B. Burchett, Mohan Shankar, Steve Feller

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Abstract

This paper presents a wireless pyroelectric sensor system, composed of sensing modules (slaves), a synchronization and error rejection module (master), and a data fusion module (host), to perform human tracking. The computation workload distribution among slave, master, and host is investigated. The performances and costs of different signal-processing and target-tracking algorithms are discussed. A prototype system is described containing pyroelectric sensor modules that are able to detect the angular displacement of a moving thermal target. Fresnel lens arrays are used to modulate the sensor field of view. The sensor system has been used to track a single human target.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1683-1695
Number of pages	13
Journal	IEEE Sensors Journal
Volume	6
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2006.884562
State	Published - Dec 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Fresnel lens
Human motion tracking
Pyroelectric sensor
Wireless sensor network

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Instrumentation
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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