Modeling RFID Tracking in Healthcare

This paper presents the modeling and simulation of patient tracking in a hospital emergency department (ED) using radio frequency identification (RFID) as would be typical in a real time location system (RTLS). These types of ‘smart’ applications typically extend the role of traditional RFID while leveraging existing RFID infrastructure.   Keywords: RTLS, locating, tracking, monitoring, emergency department, agent based modeling, contact graph generation.

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