Sensing Architecture for a Nosocomial Infection Tracing System

This paper presents a highly configurable healthcare-associated infection tracing system whose peculiarity is represented by a low-power device for detecting dispenser interaction and a flexible and modular software architecture. The data from the real-time localization of the healthcare staff and from the dispenser interaction devices are correlated by a gateway component based on bridge subcomponents. The results of the system evaluation are reported in terms of accuracy of dispensers detection and power consumption.