MobileMag.com reports about a new RFID band to track patients inside the hospital:
Radianse has created a single-use patient locator RFID wrist band. The tag can be slipped onto a patient’s wrist or ankle and setup to show their location information and report it to a cell phone, from admission to discharge, or if they have left the compound and wandered about.
Using a hospitals existing WiFi network, the Radianse RFID tags transmit continuous radio signals to Radianse receivers. These receivers plug into a hospital’s existing wired or wireless LAN with no danger of interfering with mission-critical clinical applications or devices.
The Radianse single-use active-RFID location tag is scheduled for commercial shipments in the second half of 2005 after trials at select Radianse installations across the U.S.
The original press release is here.
To read more about Radianse indoor positioning solutions visit the company website…