SMART HOSPITAL DESIGN: THE SENSOR-INTEGRATED FLOOR

, application engineer, Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Sensors play an important role in satisfying our inquisitiveness to know about our surroundings. By far, temperature is the most measured parameter using a sensor. The most primitive method to measure would have been by touch and then by the use of external metals. The initial measurements were just comparative and did not have a scale. Sensors have come a long way from that point and we now have highly accurate measuring devices. With advances in technology, various sensors measuring pressure, humidity, proximity, and motion, among others, have been developed. To form a complete application, however, use of these stand-alone sensors is not enough. Sensors must be interfaced to a microcontroller to form a complete system. Interfacing sensors with microcontrollers has revolutionized different applications and is continuing to do so. Many fields like medical, industrial, and automotive are benefiting from the latest innovations in sensor technology. Until recently, sensing has been implemented using hardwired circuits, which can be inconvenient to deploy in the areas where they are mounted. To simplify deployment, next-generation sensors are transferring the data they record using wireless technology. A microcontroller that can interface with sensors and also has wireless capabilities makes continuous monitoring of received data possible. This article explores the technology involved in interfacing of sensors for medical applications, using hospital beds as an example. Hospitals are places where all of us have felt the need for a little more comfort, and hospital beds/mattresses can be made more comfortable through technological improvements possible using sensors and microcontrollers. Making patients more comfortable helps the patients, doctors, and also medical caretakers. Present-day systems use sensors that are hardwired to a PC next to the bed. The use of sensors detects the conditions of the patient and the data is collected and transferred using a microcontroller. Doctors and nurses need to visit the patient frequently to examine his/her current condition. Using the proposed system, data can be sent wirelessly to the nurses' station, allowing continuous monitoring of the patient. Such an approach also reduces the number of wires present in the already confusing patient environment. This system can also be used at places other than hospitals, including home monitoring of patients with special needs. For the purpose of this article, only temperature, humidity, pressure and capacitive sensors are addressed. Any other sensor that can be interfaced with a microcontroller can be used in a similar method. These sensors can monitor the condition of the patient and, based on the thresholds chosen, record useful data and/or trigger alarms for attention from doctors or nurses over wireless networks. This will not only help current patients, but the data recorded can be helpful for case studies of certain medical conditions. Choosing a wireless configuration There are several microcontrollers available on the market with the requisite wireless capabilities which, when coupled with sensors, could implement a wireless hospital bed. But in this proof of concept, performed at room temperature, a PSoC FirstTouch Starter Kit with CyFi Low-Power RF was used, with a low power 2.4 GHz RF system built on direct sequence spread spectrum technology. On the transmission side, the sensors were interfaced with a microcontroller and then connected to a wireless subsystem using a second microcontroller to process and send the data using a wireless transmitter. [+] Feedback

Hospital Practices and Research, 2019

In this review article, we aim to depict how healthcare facilities may look in the near future from an architectural design point of view. For this purpose, we review newly introduced technology and medical advances in the field of healthcare, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic surgery, 3D printing, and information technology (IT), and suggest how those advances may affect the architectural design of future healthcare facilities. In future hospitals, less space will be required; there will be no need for waiting areas. Most care will be given far from the hospital. Every human might have a computer chip attached to his body, with all his medical data ready and monitored by AI. In the future, all processes may be done by robots and AI, from reception to detection (radiology, scans, etc.). Nearly all surgery will be done by robots, so the architectural design of operation departments will need to be changed accordingly. AI is faster and better in disease detection than man;...

Hospitals are indispensable part of our lives when it comes to providing best medical facilities to people suffering from various diseases, disorders or syndromes. Usually, it is a place that in a vast area with lots of buildings and places such as laboratories, wards, pharmacies, etc. In such situation, patients, visitor and even the working staff might find it difficult to find the necessary place they need to be at a particular time. The newest members who join the hospital staff might take a while to be familiarized with the hospital area including all the places in it. When it comes to the Outdoor Patient Department (OPD) patients, they also might have to go several rooms to meet their doctors, or to get X-rays, lab reports, and buy medicine. Having direction boards helps, but it is not always productive. Sometimes people might find it difficult to read when they are not properly maintained by time. To the people who visit their family, friends and relatives who are hospitalized, it is really hard if they do not know where to find the ward they have been admitted on. On the other hand, they might get to know that there are special goods (E.g.: food items, clothing and medical items) to brought from the outside, so before even visiting the patient they have to go back and bring them. These kinds of situations are very common in both government and private hospitals in Sri Lanka. So it is necessary for the hospitals to provide those parties with a mobile navigation system which helps them to find their way inside the hospital area. It is a mobile navigation system, and it includes a patient health monitoring procedure as well.At the prior study, a number of available technologies were studied and evaluated to choose the most effective and cost effective use for developing the system as well as its use and maintenance. The system use Bluetooth BLE for its implementation process with the aid of iBeacons. Therefore, the HospiX mobile application has been able to answer all the issues mentioned above by helping both hospital staff, visitors and OPD patients who comes to the hospital. Key Words- Hospital, Navigation, Patient Health Monitoring, OPD, Android Application, iBeacons, Bluetooth

Journal of Information Systems and Operations Management, 2016

Hospitals receive many patients and visitors daily, and include a large number of medical staff members, thus, hospitals are eligible environments for infection transmission. The hospital acquired infection (HAI) is situated at the top of the reasons pyramid that lead to death. HAI means that a patient enters the hospital for some reason and gets infected because of another reason. Non compliance with hygiene protocols is a major cause of HAI. Therefore, the automatic monitoring of hospital workflows using the recent communication technologies is a vital factor for infection prevention. In this article, we highlight in details the technologies that could be investigated for monitoring the workflows in a hospital room. We describe the hospital room use case, and we analyze the suitability for each technology. The goal of this paper is to suggest a system for monitoring the clinical workflows and pveventing the HAI. Nowadays, it became possible to perform efficient automated monitorin...

International journal of innovative research in engineering and management, 2022

Significant advancements in the past few years have resulted in improved Smart Building technologies for connectivity and protection. This article provides an overview of these developments. In addition, we provided a patient nurture scheme for clinic buildings as well as a layered Building Management System (BMS) architecture in this article. Then we conducted a comparison of our system to other comparable systems and highlighted the advantages of our method. Furthermore, we suggested several security measures based on the design and further study. In addition, this article includes a comparison of our system to other comparable systems. The advantages of our enterprise are then enumerated and discussed. Finally, we researched and utilized the Contiki OS and the Cooja emulator, as well as creating simulations, to get a more comprehensive and truthful picture of our system. The consequences of the data packet transfer are important since the protocol we employ has a very low proportion of packets lost, if not none at all With the Cooja simulator, we watch data in and into of the networks in real time. As a result, it seems to be a very helpful tool that provides, in addition to traffic, diagrams and other data that characterize our system. We want to mimic our whole system in the future using technologies like the Cooja emulator. We will then proceed with the installation of such a system if the outcomes are as anticipated. This article will serve as a starting point for making better choices in the future when developing smart structure systems.