Design of a Management System for Monitoring and Identification of medical equipment using RFID in the hospitals

Abstract

This article announces a study to make use of RFID technology in the control and management of medical equipment at Hospital Universitario Hernando Moncaleano Perdomo ESE of the city of Neiva (Huila - Colombia). For its development, was performed a model test of a prototype RFID from Ericel Detec & Engineering company, DTR 10 to simulate the operation and determine the optimal characteristics for the system that could be implemented in the hospital. It was necessary to create a software application in Builder C + +, to the communication interface between the reader and RFID tags, which is also responsible for processing data from the tag (the UID in this case), with a base MySQL data that relates the tag data with medical equipment information respective. It was design an application in PHP, with which the user can manage of the database information.

From the results of the prototype, it was made a proposal designed and of the hospital system devices. According to the above, it was determined that RFID devices operating under the protocol ISO / IEC 15693, a frequency of 13.56 MHz, were adequate for the hospital system, due to technical and operational features offered by its manufacturers.