MEDICAL EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT AND TRACKING SYSTEM USING IOT AND WSN

Abstract

Small sized devices with communication capability are accepted in real applications recent years and the
applications increase business efficiency. We developed an asset tracking application using a wireless sensor network.
The application consists of three Components: a wireless sensor network, a middleware, and a IoT user interface. The
sensor network consists of mobile nodes, reference nodes, and one gateway. Each mobile node equipped with a
location sensor is attached to one medical asset so that the application tracks medical assets. The middleware abstracts
the specification of the sensor network. The graphical user interface is developed according to the requirements of
nurses and doctors. The application shortens the searching time for mobile medical assets from about twenty minutes
to within 20 seconds. By shortening the searching time of the assets, the nurses can use more times to take care of
patients and the patients can receive better medical services. Low- level functionality of the TRACKING system is
unlike that of typical Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technologies. The spirit of the IoT paradigm employed by
TRACKING makes the system both flexible and scalable, by leveraging collaboration between embedded and cloud
systems. This flexibility will allow for the future support of additional applications such as hardware integration (e.g.,
New hardware components).This can include data acquisition such as usage statistics and historical patient health
data. Compiling this data might pave the way for future research into disease vectors or could be used to optimize care
delivered for specific conditions. While implications for an IoT system such as TRACKING are wide-ranging; its
primary objective is to provide an easy to use, low-cost solution to track the location of medical assets in real-time.
Saves life at emergency situation by reducing the time taken to find an equipment.