CUIDATS: an RFID–WSN hybrid monitoring system for smart health care environments

Abstract

The continuous development and improvement of low-power wireless communication technologies is enabling the emergence of many new applications in the field of the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the main areas of research within the Smart City context is smart health, which engages novel IoT initiatives to improve both quality and access to health care and smart services in general. In this paper we present CUIDATS, an IoT hybrid monitoring system for health care environments which integrates RFID and WSN technologies in a single platform providing location, status, and tracking of patients and assets. After its performance validation in a suitable testbed, CUIDATS has been deployed and evaluated with a high degree of success in a real hospital.

This work was partially supported by the Spanish Government through the projects TEC2012-32354, IPT-2012-0972-300000, and TEC2015-71303-R, and by the Catalan Government (SGR2009#00617). The authors also acknowledge the rest of members of the CUIDATS consortium (Proengsoft, Pulso Ediciones, and i2cat), the Asepeyo hospital, and the technical support received by Keonn Technologies and Farsens.