Real Time Locating Systems 2008-2018 (RTLS)

Table of Contents

• 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
• 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
• 2.3. 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
  • 2.5.1. 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 �EProgram 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 �E
  • 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 Hospitals patients Israel
• 4.25. Supplier case study Ascom, Switzerland
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 7. PRIVACY ISSUES
• 8. MARKET SIZE AND FORECASTS
• 8.1. Market 1998 to 2005
• 8.2. Market 2006-2016
• 8.3. RTLS share
• 8.4. Trend in importance of different parts of the RTLS value chain
• 8.5. Geographical trends
• 8.6. Applicational trends
• 8.7. Trend of modes
• 8.8. Trend of frequencies
• 8.9. Other opinions
• APPENDIX 1: CONTACT DETAILS
• APPENDIX 2: IDTECHEX PUBLICATIONS
• APPENDIX 3: GLOSSARY
• TABLES
  • 1.1. Some factors driving greater use of RTLS
  • 1.2. Examples of needs and concerns about RTLS in various sectors.
  • 1.3. Examples of companies with RTLS systems or appropriate parts and services and the sectors they address
  • 3.1. The commonly used licence free frequencies for active RFID
  • 4.1. Required characteristics of an indoor positioning solution.
  • 4.2. Specification of Activewave jumboTag
  • 4.3. Equipment Rental Costs: Financial Results*
  • 4.4. GSH equipment purchasing costs
  • 4.5. Associate Satisfaction: Nursing Satisfaction Scores
  • 6.1. Wherify view of RTLS options
  • 8.1. Global market for RTLS in millions of dollars 1998 to 2005
  • 8.2. Cumulative sales of RTLS systems to start of 2006
  • 8.3. Examples of suppliers and developers of RTLS systems
• FIGURES
  • 1.1. The demographic timebomb.
  • 2.1. Radianse view of the relative merits of some RTLS technologies
  • 2.2. Example of Zonal RTLS
  • 2.3. Example of a Sovereign Tracking Systems transceiver
  • 2.4. RFCode tag and interrogator
  • 2.5. The TAVIS system from RF Code
  • 2.6. Trinity Terminal is the largest container handling facility in the UK
  • 2.7. A NAVSTAR GPS satellite
  • 2.8. Artist's concept of the GPS satellite constellation
  • 2.9. AeroScout WiFi RTLS tags
  • 2.10. AeroScout WiFi armbands
  • 3.1. License free frequencies across the world at UHF
  • 3.2. Technical performance for active RFID in crowded environments as a function of frequency in the view of Savi Technology
  • 3.3. UWB frequency spread compared with some alternative active RFID bands in the microwave region
  • 3.4. A Ubisense healthcare application of UWB active RFID
  • 4.1. Ekahau WiFi tag
  • 4.2. Watchlet Resident Bracelet
  • 4.3. Activewave jumboTag
  • 4.4. Healthcare Pilot tags
  • 4.5. How the Healthcare Pilot RTLS system works
  • 4.6. GSH equipment rental costs
  • 4.7. GSH equipment purchasing costs
  • 4.8. GSH associate satisfaction
  • 4.9. monitoring system for personnel tags
  • 4.10. Zonal personnel tracking system
  • 4.11. Using RFID to guide people
  • 4.12. Miyake white navigation system
  • 4.13. A Miyake LC Array chipless RFID tag
  • 4.14. Hospital contact history and monitoring system
  • 4.15. Scene at hospital
  • 4.16. EIRIS Technology IRFIDTM Components
  • 4.17. EIRIS Technology Tags
  • 4.18. EIRIS Data collecting and equipment tags
  • 4.19. EIRIS System Architecture
  • 4.20. ELPAS' System Architecture
  • 4.21. ELPAS' Healthcare Applications
  • 4.22. A selection of UWB RFID tags
  • 4.23. Overall strategic design
  • 4.24. Patient track & alarm
  • 4.25. Information systems in Wirral Hospital
  • 4.26. Analysis - EDR/EIS
  • 5.1. Real Time Locating Systems -- long range triangulation and/or Time Delay of Arrival
  • 5.2. Yanzou Mine
  • 5.3. The TSI PRISM wireless (RFID) tracking system consists of three primary components:
  • 6.1. Versus combined IR/ RFID personnel locator and alarm
  • 6.2. Hi-Efficiency Infrared (IR) Sensor (VER-4426)
  • 6.3. Radio Frequency (RFID) Sensor (VER-4452)
  • 6.4. Wherifone
  • 6.5. Wherify system
  • 6.6. Sygade active tags and tracking units
  • 8.1. Global market for RTLS in millions of dollars 1998 to 2005
  • 8.2. Global RTLS market 2006 -2016 in millions of dollars
  • 8.3. RTLS as a percentage of the active RFID market in 2010 by value
  • 8.4. RTLS as a percentage of the active RFID market in 2016 by value