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Monitoring, Control and Diagnostics using RFID Infrastructure

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This work demonstrates the developed application for disinfection control by the sensing of chemical agents. The objective was to develop an Automatic Disinfectant Tracker (ADT) that would verify the disinfection of the hands of nurses, doctors, staff, patients, and visitors in hospitals within a required time frame. We have successfully investigated the development of hand disinfection control mechanisms and demonstrated two approaches, both based on the wireless Ultra-High-Frequency-based Radio-Frequency Identification (UHF-RFID) technology. The 100 % efficacy of detecting propanol and ethanol concentration was achieved by using the static disinfectant control (SDC-ADT) method. The time domain response provides an accurate determination of their performance in practice simply by measuring the applied disinfectant concentration and the duration of application. The present paper resulted from the measurements of a capacitive chemical sensor fabricated in the Laboratory for Microelectronics, (LMFE) and on measurements, based on a commercially available resistive type of sensor. A graphic user interface (IDS-GUI) is designed to successfully set the logger parameters and display the results.

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Acknowledgment

The authors express their thanks to colleagues at IDS in Ljubljana for their RFID technology contributions to the projects and to staff members of the Laboratory for Microelectronics (LMFE) in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana, for the production of capacitive sensors. We thank Katja Polh for her help with the experiments.

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This work has been supported in part by the University medical centre (UKC) Ljubljana, by LMFE, University of Ljubljana and by IDS d.o.o.

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We declare that there is no conflict of interest with any organization regarding the material discussed in this work.

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  1. IDS d.o.o., Tehnoloski Park 21, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia

    Anton Pleteršek

  2. Clinical Hospital, UKC, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Miha Sok

  3. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UL, Trzaska 25, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Anton Pleteršek & Janez Trontelj

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Pleteršek, A., Sok, M. & Trontelj, J. Monitoring, Control and Diagnostics using RFID Infrastructure. J Med Syst 36, 3733–3739 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-012-9846-y

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