Design and implementation of wearable RFID tag for real-time ubiquitous medical care

Abstract

With the upcoming aging society and emerging of some newly discovered chronic diseases, the demand of hospital nursing for elderly patients had been significantly increased. It is a critical issue for health worker to provide a comprehensive, proactive health care in hospital, especially for those vulnerable patients who are unable to speak or behave for themselves. This study proposes an innovative, wearable RFID tag which embedded body temperature monitoring sensor, and equipped with automatic identification and localization, real-time emergency notification for health care workers. Additionally, operating with the intelligent backend system architecture, this system can also provide immediate physician advices in case if emergency situation happens without doctor near the site. The result of this study provides a ubiquitous medical care throughout whole hospital, and the new-invented tag may bring a significant change to normal health care process, especially in patient care.