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RFID + Wi-Fi system to control the location of biomedical equipment within hospital areas and linked to an intelligent inventory

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One of the most common problems in a hospital is the loss of medical equipment due to the change of areas to cover emergency needs. As a consequence, some preventive maintenance is omitted for months, causing a reduction in the useful life of the medical equipment, an additional investment of resources by the hospital and, mainly, a greater risk to the patient or medical staff. In this work we propose the development of an RFID + Wi-Fi access control system for medical equipment in the different areas of a hospital linked to an intelligent inventory. The system consists of 10 antennas mounted on each equipment with an RFID reader RC522 using a frequency of 13.56 MHz, a Wi-Fi NodeMCU card allows the transmission of equipment data to the inventory to keep it updated. The developed interface allows the interaction of the area of biomedical engineering with the records in the inventory, but also performs the deployment of important information such as: equipment documentation, an intelligent maintenance manager and an access meter based on the mobility of the equipment and the areas involved to detect needs in future purchases for the institution.

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Special thanks to the Biomedical Engineering Department of the Women’s Hospital of San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas for allowing the implementation of the system in their facilities.

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  1. Biomedical Engineering Student, Polytechnic University of Chiapas, Suchiapa, Chiapas, Mexico

    F. Salinas Gómez & N. E. Suárez Escobar

  2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Chiapas, Suchiapa, Chiapas, Mexico

    J. Vázquez

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Salinas Gómez, F., Suárez Escobar, N.E. & Vázquez, J. RFID + Wi-Fi system to control the location of biomedical equipment within hospital areas and linked to an intelligent inventory. Health Technol. 10, 479–483 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-019-00393-6

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