病棟内電動くるま椅子自動運転システム

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In low birthrate and rapidly aging our society, an increased shortage of manpower forces all nurses of hospitals to overwork. Though almost any work of a nurse must use man hand, some could be saved by technology. An automatic operation system for wheelchairs in a hospital ward is proposed here as a means of mitigating the overwork of nurses. This system is formed with passive RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags buried in the floor, and a tag reader on each electric wheelchair. Instead of nurses' assists, a routing server automatically operates those all wheelchairs to each destination in a hospital ward via wireless LAN. In the night, this system provides automatically looking around a hospital ward by a night-scope ridden on an electric cart instead of a nurse. Pictures with the night-scope are transmitted to the monitor of a nurse station via wireless LAN.
2009-10-30