DAST: DIGITAL IMAGE OF THE STERILE GOODS CYCLE USING TRANSPONDER TECHNOLOGY

Sterile goods such as surgical cutlery are an important tool in everyday hospital life. Before they are used in an operation, the sterile goods are sorted to suit the surgery and transported to the operating room in metal trays. Due to the large number of sterile goods used, the logistical effort is considerable.

In order to enable precise tracking of the sterile goods used, an RFID-based information system is being developed in the DAST project, which makes it possible to track each individual sterile good and to ensure that the sieves are loaded correctly. The Chair for Integrated Systems is developing a transponder chip that is applied to each individual sterile item and thus provides it with an electronically readable ID.

A particular challenge is the reflection caused by the many metallic objects (surgical instruments, sieves) in the vicinity of the transponder chip. To ensure reliable reading of the transponder chips despite the reflections, the previously unused frequency range in the 5.8 GHz band is used in DAST.

Part­ners
Smar­t­rac Spe­cial­ty GmbH, ID4us GmbH, Fraun­ho­fer IMS, Ruhr-Uni­ver­si­tät Bo­chum (Chair for Integrated Systems), IT4pro­cess GmbH, He­li­os Uni­ver­si­täts­kli­ni­kum Wup­per­tal, Uni­ver­si­täts­kli­ni­kum Köln, Uni­ver­si­täts­kli­ni­kum Essen