Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS) 2009-2019

Published by: IDTechEx Ltd

Published: Jul. 1, 2009 - 235 Pages

Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1. What is RTLS?

1.1.1. Definitions

1.1.2. Construction of an RTLS system

1.2. What is not RTLS

1.2.1. Remote location not navigation

1.2.2. RFID Radar and other options

1.3. Primary benefits

1.4. Relevant market needs

1.4.2. Case study: Alexandra Hospital/ Singapore National University Hospital, staff, visitors and patients, Singapore

1.5. History

1.6. Tools

1.7. ISO standard for RTLS

2. RTLS TECHNOLOGIES

2.1. Variety in technologies

2.2. Zonal

2.2.2. Supplier case study: Sovereign Tracking Systems US

2.2.3. Supplier case study: RF Code USA

2.2.4. Case study: Mercy Hospital USA

2.2.5. Supplier case study Tagtec Australia

2.2.6. Case study: Felixstowe Dock and Rail Company vehicles UK

2.2.7. Case study: Brigham & Women's Hospital chooses ultrasound RTLS

2.3. Triangulation and Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA)

2.3.1. Case study: BMW vehicles Germany, UK, South Africa

2.4. Global Positioning System (GPS)

2.4.1. The satellites

2.4.2. The Master Control facility

2.4.3. Smaller and more sensitive receivers widen the possible applications

2.4.4. High sensitivity GPS receivers

2.4.5. Who uses GPS

2.4.6. Case study: Tracking children USA

2.5. Radio fingerprinting

2.5.2. Supplier case study: AeroScout USA

2.6. Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI)

2.6.1. Supplier case study RFTechnologies USA

2.7. Near Field Electromagnetic Ranging (NFER)

2.8. RFID radar

2.8.1. Supplier case study Trolley Scan South Africa

2.8.2. Case study: Highway non-stop tolling USA

2.9. Mesh networks linking RTLS tags, interrogators and systems

3. CHOICE OF RFID FREQUENCY FOR RTLS

3.2. Radio regulations are changing

3.3. No ideal frequency for everything

3.4. Ultra Wide Band (UWB)

4. INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS

4.1. IPS used to located medical equipment

4.2. Supplier case study: Ekahau USA

4.3. Case study: Nagoya Ekisaikai Hospital Japan

4.4. Supplier case study Hynix Semiconductor Korea

4.5. Case study: Palmetto Health USA

4.6. Case study: AWAREA personalised marketing/advertising, guidance for the disabled, USA

4.6.1. Supplier case study: BioRfid Solutions

4.6.2. Supplier case study: Student Tracker ™ Program for Absenteeism and Dropouts

4.7. Supplier case study: Verichip Corporation USA

4.7.1. Wander prevention

4.7.2. Infant protection

4.8. Supplier case study Axcess International Inc USA

4.8.1. AXCESS Asset Activator ™

4.8.2. Patient monitoring

4.8.3. Case study: Private school attendance, USA

4.9. Supplier case study: ActiveWave Inc USA

4.10. Supplier case study: Healthcare Pilot USA

4.11. Case study: Holy Name Hospital USA

4.12. Case study: Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital USA

4.13. Case study: Merrimac Industries libraries and archiving USA

4.14. Case study: Borgess Medical Center patients USA

4.15. Case study: City halls guiding the blind Japan

4.16. Case study: Jackson Memorial; Hospital assets USA

4.17. Case study: Klinikum Saarbrucken Hospital patients Germany

4.18. Case study: Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital equipment USA

4.19. Case study: Massachusetts General Hospital patients and assets USA

4.20. Case study: Presbyterian Hospital patients USA

4.21. Case study: Changgen Memorial Hospital patients Taiwan

4.22. Case study: Tung Yuan Hospital in Hsinchu, patients Taiwan

4.23. Case study: Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, assets, USA

4.24. Case study: Hospital patients Israel

4.25. Supplier case study PanGo Networks

4.26. Case study: Washington Hospital Center, patients and assets, USA

4.27. Case study: Werribee Mercy Hospital, patient tracking, Australia

4.28. Case study: Wirral Hospital people, UK

4.29. Case study: Metrotown Mall security Canada

4.30. Case study: E.S.E.G. Euro Security Group, locating barcode scanners, Germany

4.31. Case study: Boeing, Real Time Locating System (RTLS), item level, USA

4.32. Case study: Toyota, real time locating, vehicles USA

5. LONG RANGE AND OUTDOOR RTLS

5.1. Benefits and limitations

5.2. Supplier case study WhereNet USA

5.3. Case study: Broekman Group The Netherlands

5.4. Case study: AM General Corporation work in progress USA

5.5. Case study: Volkswagen work in progress Germany

5.6. Case study: Ford Van Dyke plant work in progress and finished vehicles USA

5.7. Case study: Inco Mine equipment Canada

5.8. Case study: Yanzhou Mining Group vehicle tracking China

5.9. Case study: Marion Correctional Treatment center inmates USA

5.10. Case study: BP, people evacuation, USA

5.11. Case study: NYK Logistics, tracking containers, USA

6. COMBINED AND PARASITIC RTLS TECHNOLOGIES

6.1. Combined technologies

6.1.1. Combined in one tag

6.1.2. Not combined in one tag

6.2. Parasitic Bluetooth and WiFi

6.2.1. Bluetooth

6.2.2. WiFi

6.2.3. Case study: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center equipment USA

6.2.4. Case study: Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull NHS Trust patients UK

6.2.5. Case study: Bon Secours Health System, equipment USA

6.2.6. Supplier case study G2 Microsystems

6.2.7. Case study: Aobaku schoolchildren, Japan

6.3. Infrared

6.3.1. Supplier case study: Versus Technology Inc USA

6.4. GPS and GSM, GPRS

6.4.1. Supplier case study: Wherify USA

6.4.2. Supplier case study: Sygade/ Max ID, South Africa/ UK

6.4.3. Supplier case study: Savi Technology

6.4.4. Case Study Dow Chemical

6.4.5. Supplier case study Siemens Roke Manor

7. PRIVACY ISSUES

8. MARKET SIZE AND FORECASTS

8.1. Market 1998 to 2007

8.2. Market 2008-2018

8.3. RFID Market 2008-2018: active versus passive

8.4. RTLS share

8.5. Trend in importance of different parts of the RTLS value chain

8.6. Geographical trends

8.7. Applicational trends

8.8. Trend of modes

8.9. Trend of frequencies

8.10. Shakeout in Real Time Locating Systems in 2007/8

8.11. Impressions from the IDTechEx Active RFID and RTLS Summit in December 2007

APPENDIX 1: CONTACT DETAILS

APPENDIX 2: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS

APPENDIX 3: GLOSSARY

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