A Study on RFID for Institutional Care

• Main Authors: Liu,Ming Wei, 劉銘維
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11014934425951825913

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 環境工程研究所碩士在職專班 === 97 === With the rise of population aging and high prevalence of elderly chronic diseases, institutional care has become a major choice of care for the elderly population, though the service quality of care institutions is the prime concern of citizens. Apart from enhancing the quality and safety of care from care institutions, the automatic position monitoring system provides families with information concerning the daily life of patients in care institutions and the efforts and determination to improve care quality and the environment of care institutions in order to relieve the care quality uncertainty of family. This study developed a system for detecting the location and location staying time of patients with the RFID identification and 2-way radio positioning technologies and delivering real-time monitoring and afterward enquiry functions with data transferred to the rear-end server. In addition to locating the patient, the system provides alert functions for care safety to reduce accidents in care institutions. A number of tests were conducted to verify the feasibility of applying the system to institutional care, including 100% positioning accuracy in the stability and care service simulation test and 100% success in care safety maintenance tests (emergency call and alert for extended toilet occupancy). Additionally, this study solved the communication interference problem from short positioning distance in care institutions with care route planning and body coverage characteristics. Testing results show that the successful positioning rate is 97%, indicating that the solution can successfully overcome the communication interference problem. The test of onsite dynamic route shows 97% success, indicating that both the positioning accuracy and care safety maintenance function of the system have met the practical demand, and validating the feasibility of the automatic position monitoring system in practice.