Daniel Tubbs

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• Daniel Tubbs
• Francis Doligosa
• Brian Easton
• Jason Sadler
• Latricia Simon
• Joseph Williams

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The STATag

• Solutions for
• Real-Time Equipment Tracking

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Problem

• Hospitals need to reduce costs to increase
  profitability
• From 1997 to 2001, spending on hospital care
  increased by 83.6 Billion
• Hospital gross margins have declined annually
  every year since 1997

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Solution

• The use of Real-Time Equipment Tracking (RTET)
  with STATags will
• Reduce man hours searching for needed equipment
• Increase staff efficiency
• Improve equipment utilization

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Market Analysis

• Our target market is US hospitals
• Hospitals 5,794
• Total Registered Beds 975,962
• Estimated mobile medical equipment in US
  Approximately 5 Million
• Potential future market International hospitals

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Market Analysis (continued)

• Hospital equipment is very expensive and highly
  mobile
• Equipment tracking is a large problem that
  causes
• Time consuming equipment searches
• Unnecessary equipment purchases
• Initial target price lt 20.00 per tag

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Objective

• Create a Real-Time Equipment Tracking system
  that increases staff efficiency and allows
  hospitals to reduce operating costs

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STATag Cons

• More expensive setup than RFID or Barcode
• Requires periodic battery replacement and
  calibration
• Accuracy degrades slowly over time

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STATag Pros

• Less expensive than Real-Time Locating System
• Eliminates labor intensive and error prone manual
  inventories
• Instantly locates any tagged equipment
• Detects tag removal, minimizing theft
• Versatile report generation

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STATags will

• Use Dead Reckoning to determine current
  location
• Use network security
• Self-discover self-configure network
• Handle large quantities of equipment

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STATags will (continued)

• Activate Alarms
• Store historical location and usage data
• Run without intervention for long periods
• Battery lasts 5-7 years
• Need calibration only when battery is changed

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STATags will not

• Prevent theft
• Collect or transmit personally identifiable
  health information (covered under HIPAA)
• Communicate further than 100 feet between STATags

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Individual STATag
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STATag Network
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Technical Issues

• Component Selection
• Size/Cost inverse relationship
• Battery life and low power consuming components
• Balance between accuracy and cost
• Simplify design

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Resource Issues

• Need an electrical engineer for final design
• Outsource manufacturing
• In-house software development
• Data collection/Database
• Web based user Interface
• Startup capital
• Prototype testing

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Management Issues

• This technology has great potential
• Conducted interviews that represent
• Hospital staff and hospital management
• Civilian and Naval hospitals
• Technical project manager with NASA and Lockheed
  Martin experience
• Currently pursuing contacts with additional
  hospitals and Harris Communications

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Team Distribution
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Major Risks

• Interference with hospital monitoring equipment
• Conflicts with other 2.4 GHz networks
• 802.15.4 and ZigBee are new standards and
  therefore there maybe unknown issues

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Conclusion

• Hospitals are doing more business, but making
  less profit
• STATag use allows hospitals to lower costs by
• Freeing staff to treat patients
• Minimizing unnecessary equipment purchases
• Hospitals need STATags