Overview of the Healthcare IoT Solution

Scenario Overview

In healthcare scenarios, hospitals want to use technology means to implement infusion management and infant abduction prevention to avoid major medical malpractice and security accidents, improving hospitals' management capabilities and patient satisfaction.

Additionally, hospitals need to manage important medical assets. Manual asset management and inventory are time-consuming, expensive, and difficult to locate assets. Hospitals also want to leverage technology means for asset location and management to reduce management costs and complexity.

To meet the requirements in such scenarios, Huawei offers the Smart Healthcare - Healthcare IoT Solution to add people and things to the Internet of Things (IoT), implementing infant abduction prevention, infusion management, and medical asset management.

Solution Benefits

The Healthcare IoT Solution brings benefits to customers based on the following advantages:

• Uses technology means to prevent major medical malpractice and security accidents, improving hospitals' management capabilities and patient satisfaction.
• Uses technology means for asset location and management to monitor medical assets, prevent asset loss, and save labor costs.
• Reuses a WLAN as a healthcare IoT, reducing the healthcare IoT deployment and maintenance costs, and facilitating central network management by administrators.

Networking Architecture

As shown in Figure 1, the networking architecture of the Healthcare IoT Solution consists of the terminal, access, pipe, and service application layers.

Figure 1 Networking architecture

• Terminal layer

  Infusion alarm devices, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, and infant security tags are deployed at this layer and used for infusion management, asset management, and infant abduction prevention scenarios.

• Access layer

  RFID receivers and exit monitors are deployed at this layer. RFID receivers can be embedded in APs as built-in cards, such as RFID receiver 1 in the preceding figure. They can also be inserted into USB ports of APs as external USB modules or connected to APs through USB extension cables, such as RFID receiver 2 in the preceding figure.

• Pipe layer

  Network devices such as APs, ACs, and switches are deployed at this layer. The pipe layer is used only for forwarding packets of healthcare IoT devices.

• Service application layer

  Platform systems such as the infusion management system, infant protection system, and asset management system are deployed at this layer. These systems can be deployed on either the same server or different servers.

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