(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.
National Taiwan University Hospital, National Taiwan University Artificial Intelligence Center, and ASUS Life
In this collaboration project, BiDaE Technology plays the role of a positioning system and locator service provider, as illustrated by the “BiDaE BPS Platform” and “BiDaE Technology Locators (Lbeacon)” in the diagram. In this project, BiDaE Technology has demonstrated the capability of its locators to seamlessly integrate with ASUS smartwatches, enabling real-time tracking and reporting of the locations and vital signs of both medical staff and patients. Additionally, the positioning system’s API SDK facilitates integration with ASUS Health Cloud’s OmniCare platform.
The system covers a 2,500-square-meter area, including the emergency room and possible locations for emergency mobile beds, such as corridors and lobbies. It utilizes 180 BiDaE Locators (Lbeacons) to achieve positioning accuracy of 3-5 meters or 5-10 meters while integrating with smartwatches to report vital signs. This collaboration project serves as an excellent example of how BiDaE Technology can collaborate with cross-industry partners to develop indoor applications.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.