TY - GEN
T1 - Direction finding signage system using RFID for healthcare applications
AU - Sharma, Nitin
AU - Youn, Jong Hoon
AU - Shrestha, Neeraj
AU - Ali, Hesham H.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - In this paper, we develop a direction signage system that helps a patient to navigate within a health care center effectively without any wait time hassles. This wireless system identifies any patient with a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag along the hallways and guides them towards their preferred destination. The patient scans a tag with a reader and expresses a destination of interest to the information desk. This information is communicated to the central station, which in turn computes the shortest path to the destination and sends the direction to the display device associated with the reader that scanned the tag. In addition to providing directions, it also performs tracking and monitoring of patients as they navigate. The system evaluation concludes that it is a cost-effective, robust, scalable and easy-to-integrate solution resulting in reduced wait-time for the patients.
AB - In this paper, we develop a direction signage system that helps a patient to navigate within a health care center effectively without any wait time hassles. This wireless system identifies any patient with a RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tag along the hallways and guides them towards their preferred destination. The patient scans a tag with a reader and expresses a destination of interest to the information desk. This information is communicated to the central station, which in turn computes the shortest path to the destination and sends the direction to the display device associated with the reader that scanned the tag. In addition to providing directions, it also performs tracking and monitoring of patients as they navigate. The system evaluation concludes that it is a cost-effective, robust, scalable and easy-to-integrate solution resulting in reduced wait-time for the patients.
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U2 - 10.1109/BMEI.2008.250
DO - 10.1109/BMEI.2008.250
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51549115870
SN - 9780769531182
T3 - BioMedical Engineering and Informatics: New Development and the Future - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2008
SP - 900
EP - 904
BT - BioMedical Engineering and Informatics
T2 - BioMedical Engineering and Informatics: New Development and the Future - 1st International Conference on BioMedical Engineering and Informatics, BMEI 2008
Y2 - 27 May 2008 through 30 May 2008
ER -