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At the opening ceremony of the RFID Medical Application Conference in Las Vegas this week, GE Healthcare announced that it has become a partner with CenTrak, combining CenTrak’s InTouch Care real-time positioning system and GE Healthcare’s expertise to help hospitals, medical institutions, and biological Medical companies and drug manufacturers use RFID technology to improve medical care, reduce costs, and improve operational efficiency. CenTrak is a provider of RFID and infrared hybrid real-time positioning systems; GE Healthcare is a US$17 billion company under EG. The company has developed RFID cooperation with multiple organizations, including Emory Healthcare in Georgia. The InTouch Care RTLS system provided by CenTrak uses CenTrak DualTrak tags (combined with infrared to determine the location of the tag) and 900MHz active RFID technology to communicate the unique ID number and location information of the tag with a battery-powered device “Spiders”. Spiders are similar in size and shape to smoke detectors and can be installed in rooms or other areas. Since infrared signals cannot penetrate walls, the use of infrared can accurately isolate the room where the asset is located. Spiders in a room can continuously emit infrared signals; the sensor of the tag obtains the Spiders signal to determine its location. Spiders and tags use MSP430 microcontroller equipment, which has very low energy consumption. The tag battery can be used for more than 5 years, and the Spider battery can be used for more than 4 years. Spider sends location data to neighboring access control points via RF, and the access control points are networked through the existing Ethernet LAN or Wi-Fi system.
CenTrak InTouch real-time positioning system
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