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Solve your Patient & Staff Tracking challenges with DominateRFID

Dominate RFID People Tracking System will provide you with real-time patient and staff tracking. The system consists of a web based application, RFID Reader, RFID wristband (for patients) and RFID Access Card (for staff). It will log patient and staff who cross designated access points. When a patient or staff comes within range of the RFID reader at the entrance, the system will immediately identify them as to whom they are and can display their picture for visual verification.

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Understanding RFID technology and its importance

RFID stands for Radio Frequency Identification; a term that sums up technologies that use radio frequencies to identify objects.

Being compared to the traditional barcodes to track products for identification, RFID technology carries additional benefits. These include RFID not requiring line of sight to read a particular tag, having a longer read range than a barcode reader, and RFID tags that are capable to store more data compared to bar codes.

This allows readers to simultaneously communicate with multiple tags. The feature also allows customers to breeze through grocery stores checkout counter while an RFID reader identifies all items in a shopping cart at the same time, all at once, instead of scanning each item individually.

RFID History:

Although applications of RFID have become more widespread in the recent years, its historical importance is evident that it isn’t a new technology. RFID has been in use for several decades and an early version of the technology was used by British Allied forces in World War II to identify “friend or foe” aircraft.

In the 1960s Los Alamos National Laboratory research led to the use of RFID in employee badges for automatic identification, to limit access to secure areas, and to make the badges difficult to forge.

Public awareness of RFID was heightened in recent years when the U.S. Department of Defense and retail giant Wal-Mart required their suppliers to use RFID technology.

RFID practical applications:

RFID has been used in a number of practical applications in various industries, such as improving supply chain management, tracking household pets, accessing office buildings, and speeding up toll collection on roadways. RFID is used to automatically identify people, objects, and animals using short range radio technology to communicate digital information between a stationary location (reader) and a movable object (tag).

RFID tags are embedded in passports for security and personal identification and in ID cards to control access to buildings. Tags are also used for electronic payment for transportation (i.e. Salik Toll Gate in Dubai) and other payment systems, such as credit cards and smart cards. RFID also has several medical uses including tracking of newborns in hospitals, storing information on surgical patients and procedures, and tracking medical equipment.