Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center

藍牙定位信標物聯網計劃​_en

BLE Beacon IoT Project

(Part of Accessible Traveler Mobile App Pilot Project)

Collaborators:

Access Services, Los Angeles, CA, USA
IT Curves, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

Test site:

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center, Los Angeles, CA, with 19 destinations in outpatient area and 2 shuttle stops outdoors

Products evaluated:

BPS, Seeing-I-Go and the precision docking extension of Seeing-I-Go designed to help each vision-impaired user identify user’s pickup shuttle and locate the shuttle door.

Lessons learned:
  • Usability of BPS and Seeing-I-Go are are good when used to guide riders between shuttle stops and indoor destinations.
  • Usability of Seeing-I-Go in accessibiltiy mode is good: It can serve vision impaired riders well.
  • Precision docking extension of Seeing-I-Go works.
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Capstone_en

Capstone Project

A 2020-2022 joint project of Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology Joint Research Center for AI Technology, National Taiwan University Hospital Emergency Department and ASUS Life
BiDaE Positioning System (BPS) is deployed to provide real-time indoor location services.  It covers 2,500 square meters of the Emergency Department and areas where mobile beds can be and uses 180 Lbeacons to achieve 3-5 meter or 5-10 m location accuracy. It is designed to respond within 2 seconds to tens of concurrent searches of hundreds of devices, equipment and people.

國立臺灣大學醫學院附設醫院 – 雲林分院斗六院區​​_en

National Taiwan University Hospital

Douliu and Huwei campuses, Yunlin Branch

  • BPS is deployed to support navigation in outpatient area of Douliu Campus. Within 2024, object tracking with location accuracy as needed by applications will be supported throughout both campuses;
  • Seeing-I-Go is available in Douliu compus to guide outpatients to the doctors’ offices and labs on their appointment lists.
  • Object tracker enables staff in patent wards to locate devices with room-level accuracy. It also provides them with all operation support functions, including generation of shift change records and object traces.
  • Object tracker is also used to track movements of devices and delivery persons.
  • In 2020, Yunlin branch won the National Healthcare Quality Award and the National Innovation Award.

國立臺灣大學醫學院附設醫院​ – 總院/新竹分院_en

National Taiwan University Hospital

Main Branch, Taipei

  • Object tracker can locate in real-time hundreds of objects with 3-5 or 5-10 meter accuracy within the entire Emergency Department and hallways where mobile beds can be.
  • BiDaE indoor positioning system supports via its API 3rd party patient/caretaker monitoring and bed management apps.

Zhudong Campus, Hsinchu

  • Object tracker covers outpatient area with zone-level accuracy. It provides floor-level accuracy throughout remaining parts of the hospital.
  • Its primary function is to locate and track people to facilitate contact tracing and infection control.

國泰綜合醫院/雲林榮譽國民之家_en

Cathay General Hospital, Taipei

Yunlin Veterans Home

Cathay General Hospital, Taipei

  • BiDaE object tracker is deployed in the Main and the First Buildings to provide search and locate capability needed for fully intelligent mobile medical devices and bed management. It is configured to achieve zone and floor level location accuracy.
  • In 2023, Cathay Hospital for its use of intelligent mobile bed management won both  the Creative Award and the Badge Award of the National Healthcare Quality Award.

Yunlin Veterans Home

  • Object tracker provides geofences and location monitors to enforce confinement of visitors to visiting areas and residents with infections to isolation areas.
  • The system enables the staff to monitor vital signs of residents remotely and generate hourly rounding schedule adherence reports, etc.
  • The home won National Medical Care Quality Award in 2021.

台化新港廠/聯電力行廠區_en

Formosa Chemical and Fiber Corp. Hsinkang PABS Plant

UMC Headquarters 8AB, UT, 8CD SUB, CUB Plants

Formosa Chemical and Fiber Corp. Hsinkang PABS Plant

  • Object tracker is used to ensure worker safety. Lone workers wear sensor tags with accelerometers on their hard hats, enabling the system to monitor minute motions. When the system detects the absence of motion of any wearer, it calls specified person(s) to take appropriate actions.
  • The object tracker is also used to monitor contractors. It ensures that they are at their workplaces at all times, except during rest and meal breaks.

UMC Headquarters 8AB, UT, 8CD SUB, CUB Plants

  • BiDaE Object Tracker is used by UMC in its headquarter building and 8AB, 8CD SUB and CUB plants to monitor and track deliverers. Each type of deliverers has a delivery route and a time limit for staying in the buildings. The system is to issue an alarm whenever any deliverer is found to deviate from the route or overstay the time limit of the deliverer type.
  • The system can be expanded to monitor other types of people, e.g., visitors, contractors, and employees. It can also be modified easily to cover buildings at other company sites.