More children under the age of five in developing countries die of pneumonia than AIDS, malaria and measles combined. Pneumonia is responsible for 18% of the deaths of children under the age of five globally. The vast majority of deaths due to pneumonia are set in the poorest regions, resulting in the death of 1,4 million children from developing countries in 2010 (Johansson et al, 2012). Diagnosing being key in the treatment of pneumonia and it is important that this is done accurately. Tachypnea (fast breathing) is an important symptom of pneumonia. This is assessed by counting breaths for 60 seconds and comparing these to cut-off rates developed by the World Health Organization. As manually counting breaths is a hard, time-consuming and inaccurate process, this graduation project looked into a solution to improve the diagnosis of tachypnea for low resource settings.