Applications of wireless sensor networks in pharmaceutical industry

Advances in wireless sensor networking have opened up new opportunities in healthcare systems. The future will see the integration of the abundance of existing specialized medical technology with pervasive, wireless networks. Radio frequency identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) a...

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Main Authors: Potdar, M., Potdar, Vidyasagar, Sharif, Atif, Chang, Elizabeth
Other Authors: Vidyasagar Potdar
Format: Conference Paper
Published: IEEE Computer Society 2009
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Online Access:http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WAINA.2009.193
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36631
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author Potdar, M.
Potdar, Vidyasagar
Sharif, Atif
Chang, Elizabeth
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Potdar, Vidyasagar
Sharif, Atif
Chang, Elizabeth
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description Advances in wireless sensor networking have opened up new opportunities in healthcare systems. The future will see the integration of the abundance of existing specialized medical technology with pervasive, wireless networks. Radio frequency identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are the two key elements of Pervasive computing and are considered as interrelated technologies. Although RFID has been used in various areas but it lacks intelligence that is its ability to process information and respond to real world events. People are using large scale WSN to monitor real-time environment status. RFID technology, if combined with other sensors, may enable a range of other applications that can exponentially increase visibility and monitoring. Combined with RFID a general sensor can be upgraded to intelligent wireless sensor (Smart node), having sensing, computation, communication into a single small device Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) With dazzling wireless technology now available, it's tempting for manufacturers to snatch up any wireless sensor that comes along as a means of optimizing processes and plant performance. This is especially true within the pharmaceutical industry, where vendors are plying industrial-strength wireless sensors for temperature, humidity and pressure, as well as sensitive process-monitoring wireless devices to support PAT applications. In this paper we surveyed the existing wireless sensor and RFID based technologies that target the healthcare application.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-366312022-12-09T06:09:43Z Applications of wireless sensor networks in pharmaceutical industry Potdar, M. Potdar, Vidyasagar Sharif, Atif Chang, Elizabeth Vidyasagar Potdar Elizabeth Chang Active Node RFID sensor node CPU pharmaceutical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) healthcare FPGA Advances in wireless sensor networking have opened up new opportunities in healthcare systems. The future will see the integration of the abundance of existing specialized medical technology with pervasive, wireless networks. Radio frequency identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are the two key elements of Pervasive computing and are considered as interrelated technologies. Although RFID has been used in various areas but it lacks intelligence that is its ability to process information and respond to real world events. People are using large scale WSN to monitor real-time environment status. RFID technology, if combined with other sensors, may enable a range of other applications that can exponentially increase visibility and monitoring. Combined with RFID a general sensor can be upgraded to intelligent wireless sensor (Smart node), having sensing, computation, communication into a single small device Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) With dazzling wireless technology now available, it's tempting for manufacturers to snatch up any wireless sensor that comes along as a means of optimizing processes and plant performance. This is especially true within the pharmaceutical industry, where vendors are plying industrial-strength wireless sensors for temperature, humidity and pressure, as well as sensitive process-monitoring wireless devices to support PAT applications. In this paper we surveyed the existing wireless sensor and RFID based technologies that target the healthcare application. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36631 http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WAINA.2009.193 IEEE Computer Society fulltext
spellingShingle Active Node
RFID
sensor node
CPU
pharmaceutical
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
healthcare
FPGA
Potdar, M.
Potdar, Vidyasagar
Sharif, Atif
Chang, Elizabeth
Applications of wireless sensor networks in pharmaceutical industry
title Applications of wireless sensor networks in pharmaceutical industry
title_full Applications of wireless sensor networks in pharmaceutical industry
title_fullStr Applications of wireless sensor networks in pharmaceutical industry
title_full_unstemmed Applications of wireless sensor networks in pharmaceutical industry
title_short Applications of wireless sensor networks in pharmaceutical industry
title_sort applications of wireless sensor networks in pharmaceutical industry
topic Active Node
RFID
sensor node
CPU
pharmaceutical
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
healthcare
FPGA
url http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/WAINA.2009.193
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36631