Title :
A low-cost custom HF RFID system for hand washing compliance monitoring
Author :
Jain, Suyash ; Mane, Shashank ; Lopez, Jerry ; Lie, Donald Y C ; Dallas, Tim ; Dissanaike, Sharmila ; Banister, Ronald E. ; Griswold, John
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA
Abstract :
We present here our design of a custom low-cost RFID system for hand washing compliance monitoring and prompting in a hospital environment for reducing nosocomial infection. Various system design considerations are discussed, including the design of our custom low-cost high frequency (HF) RFID antenna that works just as well as the commercially available ones but at a fraction of the cost.
Keywords :
biomedical communication; biomedical measurement; radiofrequency identification; HF RFID system; hand washing compliance monitoring; hospital environment; nosocomial infection; Computerized monitoring; Costs; Data communication; Frequency; Hafnium; Hospitals; Passive RFID tags; Radiofrequency identification; Transceivers; Transmitting antennas; Hand-washing compliance monitoring; Nosocomial infection prevention; custom antenna design; passive RFID system; wireless data transmission;
Conference_Titel :
ASIC, 2009. ASICON '09. IEEE 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Changsha, Hunan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3868-6
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3870-9
DOI :
10.1109/ASICON.2009.5351530
