Title : 
Hardware platform to tests the availability of rooms in a medical center
         
        
            Author : 
Rezk, R.Y. ; Sleiman, C. ; Daou, Roy Abi Zeid
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Biomed. Technol., Lebanese German Univ., Jounieh, Lebanon
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Nowadays, the major problem in Lebanese hospitals is the absence of accurate database systems that can provide the reception with a list of available beds or rooms in the hospital. Hence, the system we have realized aims to provide a new tool to check the availability of the beds based on hardware and software. Therefore, each bed is equipped of a sensor based network that can test whether this bed is in use or not. As a result, a test bench is realized in order to show the whole system. Note that a differentiation between first class rooms and second class rooms is also taken into consideration.
         
        
            Keywords : 
database management systems; electric sensing devices; hospitals; medical information systems; microcontrollers; Lebanese hospitals; database systems; first class rooms; hardware platform; medical center; second class rooms; sensor based network; Availability; Biomedical imaging; Floors; Hardware; Hospitals; Light emitting diodes; Microcontrollers; Electronic sensors; Hospital available beds; PIC16F877A;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Advances in Computational Tools for Engineering Applications (ACTEA), 2012 2nd International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Beirut
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4673-2488-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICTEA.2012.6462848