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| Type | Master's Thesis |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | PMD-Track: Portable Medical Devices Tracking |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Faculty | Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics |
| Date | 2022 |
| Abstract Text | The recent COVID pandemic posed a challenge to healthcare systems worldwide, exposing limited resources and inefficiency in managing PMDs (Portable Medical Devices). This thesis reports the prototypical implementation of an new and cost-efficient type of asset tracking architecture, enabling hospitals to efficiently locate their resources and maximize the usage of PMDs in emergency situations, such as pandemics or natural disasters, when a sudden increase in demand may be anticipated. PMD-Track’s key novelty lies in the use of staff’s smartphones to replace expensive stationary gateways, typically required in traditional inventory tracking systems. As employees approach tagged PMDs in their day-to-day, their smartphone updates the location of spotted PMDs in a real-time inventory system, providing room-level localization data with up to 95% accuracy. Experiments were evaluated by contrasting two techniques (fingerprinting and multi-lateration) based on two different test locations in Zurich. |
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