Tag diversity of inkjet printed body-worn radio frequency identification integrated medical sticking plasters for wireless monitoring

Healthcare Technology Letters

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Dumtoochukwu O. Oyeka¹  John C. Batchelor¹  Ali M. Ziai¹  Joseph Wheeler²  Stephen Yeates² 

[1] School of Engineering and Digital Arts, University of Kent;Department of Chemistry, University of Manchester

关键词: ink jet printing;    body sensor networks;    radiofrequency identification;    patient monitoring;    tag diversity;    inkjet printed body-worn radio frequency identification;    integrated medical sticking plasters;    wireless monitoring;    conductive ink;    wireless platform;    long-term patient monitoring;    hospital environments;    motion capture system;    diversity study;    medical monitoring;    body movements;   

DOI  :  10.1049/htl.2016.0024

学科分类：肠胃与肝脏病学

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

This Letter presents an investigation of radio frequency identification tags integrated with sticking plasters. Conductive ink is used in the fabrication to provide good compatibility with the plaster in terms of flexibility. The tag is proposed for use as a wireless platform for long-term patient monitoring in hospital environments. A motion capture system is used to test the directions in which the tag can be read to inform a diversity study establishing the number of tags required on-body to ensure reliable reading for applications such as medical monitoring. Tag diversity performance with various body movements is also studied. It is established that four tags give all round body coverage with only 4% loss in coverage for vertically polarised tags should one of them fail.

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