Patent ID: 9715817
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: A47K,G08B,G16H

Claim:
1. A system for monitoring hygiene compliance, the system comprising a plurality of first sensors operable to monitor a location of a person in a facility; a computer receiving location information regarding the location of the person in the facility; and a plurality of second sensors operable to sense hand washes by the person, the computer receiving handwashing information regarding the hand washes, wherein the computer is operable to keep track of periods of time the person spends in each location of the facility monitored by the plurality of first sensors, wherein the computer determines hand washing compliance by correlating hand washes with an amount of time within which the person enters or exits each location, wherein the computer is further operable to update status information associated with the person to indicate that the person is compliant if the computer determines that the period of time the person has remained in a current location after handwashing is less than an exit time associated with the current location.