RVT

Project in association with Hogeschool Antwerpen - Department IWT.

Project description

The objective was to establish a Real Time Location System (RTLS) using WiFi in a healthcare environment.
A home for the elderly in Belgium with 180 residents was used as a setting.
Any standard WiFi compliant network could be used. The main requirement was a minimum availability of 3 access points at any place where location of a person is required. The wireless network and its (usually) wired backbone can still be used for other purposes (file transfer, internet, e-mail, etc). Meetings were held with key stakeholders to identify their requirements. A commercial RTLS system (Ekahau) was customised and installed to meet these requirements and to cover an area of 1800 square metres.

The customised software took 5 months to develop and the system was installed and tested over a period of 2 days. The final system was capable of monitoring and logging the movement of patients, and receiving alerts in emergency situations.

You can read more about this project in this document:
The Journal on Information Technology in Healthcare 2006; 4(6): 401–416 (PDF-file)

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