Internet of Things, IoT

1. May 17, 2015 TCS Public
RFID and Sensors– Information Backbone of
Healthcare
Technology and Application
Arpan Pal
Innovation Lab, TCS

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May 17, 2015
Tracking of Assets and People in Hospitals
Features
• Locating mobile assets within a healthcare organization,
• Improve regulatory compliance and reporting like JCAHO
• Equipments to be identified and removed in case of product recall.
• Prevent hoarded and misplaced equipment, improve utilization
• Reduce capital expenditure
• Immediate attention to patient
• Alerts on unauthorized movement of patients
• Increased patient satisfaction & safety
• Increased quality of care
Technology
 Passive UHF TI tags
TI long range readers
Laboratory & Specimen Tracking
Specimen Main Lab
Specialized
Lab 1
Specialized
Lab 2
Specialized
Lab 3
Technology
 Passive HF TI tags
Custom designed TI readers
Features
• Identification and Tracking of
samples
• Automatic data capture at sample
collection site and laboratory
• Data logging to common database
• Immediate access to data
• Traceability of sample
• Reports and query support

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Features
• Secure Storage of high value items
• Prevention of unauthorized access
• Alerts for replenishment planning
• Reduce search and inventory time
• Constant surveillance of products
• Shelf life tracking of drugs with
sensitive expiry date
The Technology enables traceability…Track and Trace
Features
 RFID based authentication and track & trace
system
 Unique ID used to identify & items as it moves in
the supply chain
 EPC Information Services interfaces used to
record business events
 Product authentication using EPC validation and
digital signatures
 Web based reporting for information accessibility
Technology
 TI HF RFID tags
 TI HF Desktop reader
Technology
 ISO 15693 tags TI HF tags
 FEIG Readers with TI reader modules
Replenishment Planning ..Smart Shelf

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May 17, 2015
Other RFID applications in Medical Healthcare
Blood bag tracking, traceability and matching
 Surgical instrument tracking for autoclaving/
gamma ray sterilization process
 Cold chain monitoring of temperature sensitive
drugs
Auto receipt and shipping at warehouses
Real time location tracking of high risk patient
and emergency equipments

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May 17, 2015
Sensors in Healthcare - The Applications
Continuous Health Monitoring of Critical Patients
Temperature Monitoring and Control in Operation
Theatres and other Critical Areas
Monitoring the Quality of air inside Intensive Care
Units and other Critical Areas

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May 17, 2015
Sensors - The Platform
SENSORS
SENSORS
SENSORS
Gateway
Gateway
Gateway
• Domain Agnostic, Distributed platform for data
Acquisition, Aggregation and Analysis
• Distributed Processing increases Scalability
• Statistical tools for Data Aggregation and
Analysis enables Domain Independence
• Data fusion module for handling multiple types
of data from different types of sensors
• Gateway layer is an embedded software
suitable for field deployment
• Open-source software stack at the backend
layer provides reduced software licensing cost
Data Collector
Data Aggregator
Data Analyzer
Backend Server
Platform
• DaVinci for Aggregator
• CC2431DK Zigbee for Data Collector

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May 17, 2015
Test Harness for Low-power DSP validation
Highlights
 Design and development of a GUI based Test
Harness application
• Java based Swing application
• Automated population of test case details
• Test Harness access the RTDX COM interface
through Java Native Interface (JNI)
• Automated loading and invoking of test cases
on the selected target board
• Execution of selected test cases
• Test report generation and GUI and based
display
 Verification & Validation of use cases & test cases
for peripherals like I2S, SPI, I2C, DMA, UART, TIMER,
CODEC etc
 Addition of new test cases for target platform
 Integration of test cases with the test harness
Environment
 Target Hardware:
 TI DA202 / 224 EVM
 Software and Tools:
 Java 2
 Code Composer
 J Developer
 Languages
 C / C++
 Assembly programming
 Java Native Interface
Overview
Development of test harness and validation of
peripherals of ultra-low power DSP chip based board
targeted for wearable audio products for Texas
Instruments, USA

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May 17, 2015
Other Activities
•Silicon Locket
– Wearable / Portable ECG monitoring system
– MSP430 based
•Interactive Settop Box
– Can be used for on-demand entertainment and
information in high-end Hospital room TVs
– DaVinci DM6446 based