RF-Health: an integrated management system for a hospital based on passive RFID technology

The studied and realized system uses the RFID identification technology in order to make more efficient the management of items and people in sanitary environments. This system has three main functions, covering respectively the tracking of items, the tracking and the identification of the employees, and the identification of the patients, including in this case also the function of electronic case history. For each of this cases specific studies have been made in order to identify the right technological solutions. For the first two applications a specific antenna has been created in order to reach the required performances. All these functions have been integrated into a single software platform managing all the activities of detection and identification, and providing all the required information to the users of the system.