Hand Washing Monitor
First Claim
1. A method for monitoring hand washing within a room, the method comprising:
- detecting a person entering the room;
capturing an image of the person that entered the room;
determining an identity of the person that entered the room using the image of the person or an employee identifier;
determining whether the person activates a soap dispenser within a threshold period of time; and
providing a notification of a failure to wash hands if the person does not activate the soap dispenser within the threshold period of time, the notification comprising the identity of the person.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-storage media provide for the monitoring of hand washing by people entering a room. A person is detected entering a room and an image of the person is captured. The person is identified as an employee using various employee identifiers or is identified as a visitor. The image may be used to identify distinguishing features of the visitor to be compared to an image subsequently during hand washing to verify the identity of the hand washer as the person who entered the room. Similarly, the employee identifier is used to verify the identity of a hand washer as the employee that entered the room. If any person entering the room remains for a threshold period of time without activating the soap dispenser, then a notification that includes the person'"'"'s identity is provided within the room to remind the person that hand washing is required.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for monitoring hand washing within a room, the method comprising:
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detecting a person entering the room; capturing an image of the person that entered the room; determining an identity of the person that entered the room using the image of the person or an employee identifier; determining whether the person activates a soap dispenser within a threshold period of time; and providing a notification of a failure to wash hands if the person does not activate the soap dispenser within the threshold period of time, the notification comprising the identity of the person. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer storage medium having computer executable instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
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detect a person entering a room; capture an image of the person that entered the room; determine an identity of the person that entered the room using the image of the person or an employee identifier; monitor a time that the person that entered the room remains within the room without activating a soap dispenser; determine that the time that the person that entered the room has remained within the room without activating the soap dispenser exceeds a threshold period of time; and in response to determining that the time that the person that entered the room has remained within the room without activating the soap dispenser exceeds the threshold period of time, provide a notification of a failure to wash hands that includes the identity of the person. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18)
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19. A hand washing monitoring system, comprising:
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an entry-detection mechanism operative to detect an entry of a person into a room; at least one identification mechanism operative to identify the person entering the room and to identify a person activating a soap dispenser within the room; a hand washing detection mechanism operative to determine whether the soap dispenser has been activated; and a monitoring mechanism operative to utilize data from the entry-detection mechanism, the at least one identification mechanism, and the hand washing detection mechanism to determine whether the person entering the room activates the soap dispenser within a threshold period of time after entering the room and to provide a notification of a failure to activate the soap dispenser that comprises an identity of the person until the person activates the soap dispenser. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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