Integration of UHF RFID and WSN technologies in healthcare systems

Author

Catarinucci, Luca ; de Donno, Danilo ; Mainetti, L. ; Palano, L. ; Patrono, L. ; Stefanizzi, M.L. ; Tarricone, Luciano

Author_Institution

Innovation Eng. Dept., Univ. of Salento, Lecce, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

8-9 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

289

Lastpage

294

Abstract

This work describes a Smart Hospital System (SHS) based on the integration of Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies. SHS is able to provide patient localization, tracking, and monitoring services within hospitals or nursing institutes through the deployment of a heterogeneous network of RFID-WSN nodes relaying data to a central server. A set of software applications based on RESTful Java and database Push Notification (PN) technologies has been designed, implemented, and installed on the central in order to manage alert events (e.g. patient falls) and promptly inform the nursing staff through an iOS mobile app which has been designed ad hoc for the smart hospital scenario.

Keywords

health care; patient monitoring; radiofrequency identification; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor network; RESTful Java; RFID-WSN nodes; UHF RFID technologies; WSN technologies; alert events; central server; database push notification technologies; healthcare systems; heterogeneous network; iOS mobile app; nursing institutes; nursing staff; patient localization; patient monitoring services; patient tracking; smart hospital system; software applications; ultra-high frequency radio frequency identification; Biomedical monitoring; Hospitals; Monitoring; Radiofrequency identification; Servers; Wireless sensor networks; E-health; RFID; WSN; healthcare; integration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

RFID Technology and Applications Conference (RFID-TA), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Tampere

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFID-TA.2014.6934245

Filename

6934245