Tracking and Monitoring of Medical Equipments using UWB for Smart Healthcare

Abstract

Healthcare sector has been witnessing prodigious developments across the decade. The developments in the sector has been brought about by the amalgamation of several technologies, from IoT to AI. The vast changes in this arena has brought about a change is the quality of life. With the expansion of such systems in a hospital, the tracking and monitoring of medical equipments have become a tedious task. The equipments in the hospital needs to be located in the most efficient manner in terms of cost, accuracy and reliability. Considering the hurdles faced, the authors introduce a system which would trace the medical equipments and monitor them using the technology of Ultra wide band (UWB). TDoA (time difference of arrival) method and 3 D triangulation techniques are implemented along with. The authors have put forth a hardware and software architecture of the system along with a complete component design. The implementation at the first instance is executed inside a hospital room with dimensions of 13.5m X 17.5m and will be later carried forward in the entire hospital premises. The equipments will be further watched upon continually using a proposed novel software application.