International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Production Research (Dec 2011)

Smart RFID Based Design for Inventory Management in Health Care

  • S Moslehpour,
  • K Jenab,
  • N. Namburi

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 4
pp. 231 – 236

Abstract

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Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is used to identify the characteristics of an object wirelessly using radio waves. The purpose of this technology in this study is mainly focused on healthcare for inventory management and theft control replacing the manual logs. The storage and tracking of high-cost inventory items is developed. Automatic reordering and billing interfaces are designed for the inventory falling below the par levels. iRISupply and iRIScope are the two RFID systems developed to reduce the inventory costs, expired item costs and to improve the inventory management with easy reporting system .

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