...Implementation and Integration of Real Time Location Systems at County Memorial Hospital sylvrfaeree Managerial Applications of Information Systems—MIS535 DeVry University 2015 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Company Background 3 Business Problems 3 High Level Solution 4 Benefits 4 Approach 5 Overview of Real Time Location Services 5 Technology to Augment the Solution 6 Versus Advantages 6 Cisco IoE Location Aware Solutions for Healthcare 7 Hill-Rom Clinical Workflow Solutions 7 Centrak Clinical Grade Visibility Solutions 7 High Level Implementation 7 Hardware and Software 7 Personnel Training and Understanding 8 Overall Recommendations 8 Conclusion and Summary of Project 10 References 11 Implementation and Integration of Real Time Location Systems at County Memorial Hospital Abstract The issue to be addressed is the lack of tracking processes for staff movement, patient flow through the facility, and the resulting inefficiency and lower quality of patient care. Company Background Rural County Memorial Hospital was founded in central Rural County in 1951. Since its founding RCMH has grown into an award winning acute care facility dedicated to quality patient care. The facility’s...
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...Pros of classroom teaching 1. Having numerous students learning in the same classroom has the added benefit of allowing students to exchange ideas and questions with one another providing another valuable learning medium that online environments cannot replicate. First-hand interaction with the educating professor also allows for ideas to be exchanged freely and without any communication barriers. 2. Improve social skills. 3. Offer one-on-one support from teachers. 4. Presence of a Teacher: A teacher can guide the students well. He/she can help them understand difficult concepts, and thereby develop efficient studying techniques. This is the biggest advantage of classroom learning. 5. Group Study: A classroom provides the perfect setting to fuel brainstorming and group study. Helping each other is one of the best ways to clear your concepts and strengthen them. You can learn how to prepare better for your exams by taking tips from each other. 6. Presentations: Oral presentations and seminars give you the opportunity to get over stage fright and gain confidence too. This goes a long way in making you more able when you step into the professional world. 7. Wider Exposure: In terms of subjects you study as well as people you meet, classroom education gives you a wider exposure. Through interaction with students from different disciplines, you can better evaluate your own interests and choose a career that is perfect for you. In the process, you may even...
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...Time Management Beat Work Overload. Be More Effective. Achieve More (MindTools.com) We are all aware of what time we have in our work day based on the normal 8 hour day with a 1 hour lunch. This is referred to as clock time. You can stop the hands of time is a cliché, yet the absolute truth. Real time is when you feel like you have been in a meeting for 2 days instead of 2 hours or when you feel you child was only born yesterday when they turn 12 (Entrepreneur.com). What we do with that time is often the cause of why we work more than the scheduled 8 hours. Some complain that Time Management is a waste of time in itself. However, this is proven untrue once you have a functional system in place that tracks exactly what you are doing with your time. Often following the tips that will be listed cuts away wasted time and gives you more time for creativity and production. Tip: To get use to tracking your work day actions, create a simple Time Log. Start doing this for a few days to a week. Figure 1 shows a sample time log. You want to log the time of all your actions, what category does it fall under (create a category list that fits your work), the activity, set priority for everything action then how much time was spent. The way to calculate where time is wasted is to compare the minutes used to the priority. Figure 1 |Time |Category |Activity |Priority |Minutes ...
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...Chapter 5: CPU Scheduling Operating System Concepts – 8th Edition Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2009 Chapter 5: CPU Scheduling Basic Concepts Scheduling Criteria Scheduling Algorithms Thread Scheduling Multiple-Processor Scheduling Operating Systems Examples Algorithm Evaluation Operating System Concepts – 8th Edition 5.2 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2009 Objectives To introduce CPU scheduling, which is the basis for multiprogrammed operating systems To describe various CPU-scheduling algorithms To discuss evaluation criteria for selecting a CPU-scheduling algorithm for a particular system Operating System Concepts – 8th Edition 5.3 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2009 Basic Concepts Maximum CPU utilization obtained with multiprogramming CPU–I/O Burst Cycle – Process execution consists of a cycle of CPU execution and I/O wait CPU burst distribution Operating System Concepts – 8th Edition 5.4 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2009 Alternating Sequence of CPU and I/O Bursts Operating System Concepts – 8th Edition 5.5 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2009 Histogram of CPU-burst Times Operating System Concepts – 8th Edition 5.6 Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne ©2009 CPU Scheduler Selects from among the processes in ready queue, and allocates the CPU to one of them Queue may be ordered in various ways Switches from running to waiting state Switches from running...
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...2013 Steven Schoen Nucleus RTOS IM sure if you’re like me your probably wondering what Nucleus RTOS is. Well let’s take a look; Nucleus RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS) and toolset created by the Embedded Systems Division of Mentor Graphics for various central processing unit (CPU) platforms. It’s estimated to be running on over 2.11 billion devices around the world. On Nucleus Applications are compiled to run on various target CPU architectures and tested using the actual target boards or in simulation environment. On Nucleus development is typically done on a host computer running Windows or Linux. Nucleus RTOS is designed for embedded systems applications including consumer electronics, set-top boxes, cellular phones, and other portable and handheld devices. What’s impressive is that Nucleus RTOS can be scaled down to a memory footprint as small as 13 KB for both code and data for limited memory systems. Nucleus is comprised of these main components: the kernel, connectivity, file system, graphics, and security. And here are some basic descriptions of each component. Kernel: * Real time kernel * C++, POSIX and Micro ITRON interfaces * Dynamic download * Inter-process communications * Closed Source (however, the source code is available to customers, making it easier to debug than operating system distributed as binaries only) Connectivity * USB 2.0 Host, Function and On-The-Go (OTG) stacks * Class drivers * Bluetooth with many advanced...
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...3.1 Design of the whole system As mentioned before, safety issue in sharing economy has arouse public’s concern, as robberies or rap cases are reported by media one after another. Because of this, we hope to design a safety system that are able to protect both service providers and receivers’ safety to the greatest extent during the entire service process. In the following, we will take Uber as an example to introduce in detail how this system works in different stages. 3.1.1 Registration When users register an account, they are required to fill in basic personal information and set one or more contact persons. Information integrity contributes to investigation on condition that incident unfortunately happens. Contact person chosen by users can share the users’ location and will receive warning once the users encounter dangers during the service process. Besides, since in most cases, it is service receivers who encounter dangers, service providers will be asked to uploading their police certificate and complete real-name identity authentication by uploading their ID card when register in order to ensure that these providers are credible and reliable 3.1.2 Ride process 3.1.2.1 Passengers A. After passengers place an order, there are two user interaction ---- ① Show the personal information and evaluation about drivers to passengers. If passengers think the evaluation about this deriver is too bad, they have the rights to refuse this service. ② Passengers choose one or more...
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...the purposes of this paper, a brief description of operating systems and their basic functions help to better understand the role of real-time operating systems and how the two differ as well as work in conjunction. The primary function of an operating system is to manage software and hardware applications, the processor, drives, memory and other components. Operating systems also help to keep hardware applications functioning consistently and allow each to access the CPU without disrupting or jeopardizing the applications or the user. Operating systems are also imperative in that they provide a consistent interface when multiple computers or applications are utilizing the given operating system. This also helps those who write applications so that they can be confident that applications can be applied and operate on different systems. Real-time operating systems share many qualities similar to operating systems in that they manage hardware applications and provide a means for them to access the hardware system. But the primary role of the real-time operating system is to consistently accept and complete tasks by applications. Although real-time operating systems use algorithms in order to better or efficiently process application tasks and priorities, it mainly functions to serve a specific set of applications at a time. The algorithms are comprised of various forms of scheduling. In real-time operating systems, most are designed to manage and organize tasks through scheduling...
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...Running head: NEW SYSTEM PROPOSAL: REAL TIME LOCATIONS SYSTEM NEW SYSTEM PROPOSAL: REAL TIME LOCATIONS SYSTEM Information Systems Fundamentals CIS 207 February 21, 2013 NEW SYSTEM PROPOSAL: REAL TIME LOCATING SYSTEM Many proposed systems are implemented day to day to complement businesses for their day-to-day operations. Business processes are essential components that help business do multiple functions; inventory tracking, personnel tracking, and financial budgeting management are some of the concepts and protocols that most businesses must implement in their organization in order for it to run smoothly and efficiently. With a bad economy and the rising costs of goods and services, companies must try to cut cost where it is possible while keeping up with demands of the 21st Century. Information Technology (IT) costs are up as well and it is up to the companies to insure that they are utilizing the IT resources to the fullest. "Many organizations find that they have some software titles that are out of compliance [with licensing agreements], while others are being underutilized” (Johnson, 2012). The new system that we are proposing to Riordan, we are confident that it will not be underutilized and that the company gets full use and potential out of this system. Real Time Locating System (RTLS) is what we are proposing to Riordan. We will be discussing aspects of this system in detail that will talk about some of the components, how information will be...
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...Real-Time Location System- Awarepoint IS535ON Curtis Austin Saturday August 13, 2011 Professor Raymond Bell Abstract The purpose of this report is to show how important the use of a Real time location system (RTLS) can be to hospitals. Knowing the location, status and movement of equipment and people in hospitals provides valuable information used to reduce equipment expenses and increase staff productivity. RTLS enables hospital managers the ability to increase oversight of millions of dollars’ worth of hospital-owned equipment and provides financial returns on increasing hospital-owned equipment utilization, reducing the need for excessive equipment rentals, and impacting lost, stolen or misplaced equipment. These asset tracking and management business drivers often provide the financial catalyst for getting an RTLS project approved. Real Time Location System- Awarepoint I. Definition To briefly explain the technology, RTLS wirelessly tracks the location of tagged assets or individuals in real-time wherever the facility has installed coverage. While RTLS is a complex technology, it can be simplified into three basic components: 1) the T2A asset tags (figure 2) that are affixed to the piece of equipment the hospital wants to be tracked; 2) the platform, which is the infrastructure consisting of sensors that creates a zigbee mesh grid (figure 3) and network...
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...Embedded Systems Design Scott DeCota Modern Operating Systems Embedded systems are all around us. They run the engine, brakes, seatbelt, airbag, and audio system in your car. They digitally encode your voice and construct a radio signal to send it from your cell phone to a base station. They control your microwave, dishwasher, and DVD player. They command robots on a factory floor, power generation in a plant, processes in a chemical plant, and the traffic lights in the city. Embedded operating systems are growing increasingly common in everyday appliances and other devices. These operating systems provide application interfaces for a wide range of different applications. The challenge for developers is to determine which operating system or programming language to use in a particular device or project, and how to utilize the parallelism and concurrency capabilities of the hardware and programming language chosen for a project to design a system of adequate timing precision and efficiency. Developers working with embedded systems need to be extremely diligent in regards to timing and optimization. Embedded systems are frequently interacting with the physical environment in which multiple sources of data may be interacting with the system simultaneously. Developers should have a solid understanding of the parallelism and concurrency capabilities of the hardware for a selected project. These features can occur in different forms that can greatly affect the timing of the...
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...Embedded Systems Software Quality and Testing in Embedded Systems DR KASHIF SAGHAR Kashif.saghar@gmail.com Outline Software Quality and Testing in Embedded Systems Embedded system • Embedded system is a computer system with a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system • Often ES are Real time Systems • Embedded Systems are generally – Small size – Low Power and Price – Rugged OS Embedded system … • Embedded systems are often based on microcontrollers • Embedded systems are used in various portable devices • Embedded systems are used in transportation, fire safety, safety and security, medical applications and life critical systems • A new class of wireless embedded devices called motes are networked wireless sensors. Wireless sensor network (WSN) • A wireless sensor network (WSN) is an example of a complete embedded system – Various ES work in a distributed network – Communicate wirelessly – Contains independent sensors etc. A WSN … Embedded System : Node • WSN is composed of various nodes • Resource Constraints • Network Topology and Routing Embedded Systems Specifications • Specifications WE NEED FORMALITY TO FILL THE GAPS • Implementation Model Checking in Embedded System Apply Properties Yes OR No If No....... Why No? • Where Modeling Techniques can be used in Embedded Systems? Specification Stage – Give a description of the system to be developed, at whatever...
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... Real-time systems play a considerable role in our society, and they cover a spectrum from the very simple to the very complex. Examples of current real-time systems include the control of domestic appliances like washing machines and televisions, the control of automobile engines, telecommunication switching systems, military command and control systems, industrial process control, flight control systems, and space shuttle and aircraft avionics. All of these involve gathering data from the environment, processing of gathered data, and providing timely response. A concept of time is the distinguishing issue between real-time and non-real-time systems. When a usual design goal for non-real-time systems is to maximize system's throughput, the goal for real-time system design is to guarantee, that all tasks are processed within a given time. The taxonomy of time introduces special aspects for real-time system research. Real-time operating systems are an integral part of real-time systems. Future systems will be much larger, more widely distributed, and will be expected to perform a constantly changing set of duties in dynamic environments. This also sets more requirements for future real-time operating systems. This seminar has the humble aim to convey the main ideas on Real Time System and Real Time Operating System design and implementation. Index Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Real-time Programs:...
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... Embedded Systems Name: Nyalala Innocent Odira College: 信息科学技术学院 Major: 计算机应用技术 Number: 2013114033 Teacher’s Name: 2014年1月 5日 | 南京农业大学教务处制 | Embedded system is a specialized computer system that is part of a larger system or machine. Typically, an embedded system is housed on a single microprocessor board with the programs stored in ROM. Virtually all appliances that have a digital interface like watches, microwaves, VCRs, cars etc., utilize embedded systems. Some embedded systems include an operating sys-tem, but many are so specialized that the entire logic can be implemented as a single program. The term paper would elaborate the history of embedded systems, the generations of its development, the components of embedded systems, its design issues and the programming languages that are used to build it. Then this paper would also include its current state of art, its uses, its current applications, the problems that have occurred in designing such kind of systems, also the steps taken to solve such problems and its future prospects. 1. INTRODUCTION These are the days when the term like embedded is increasingly becoming more and more popular in the world. We are flooded with embedded systems that seem to be everywhere. Now the question is what basically embedded systems are. We can define an embedded system as a microprocessor based system...
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...Case Study: Zara, IT for Fast Fashion EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The action recommended is to purchase a new POS system to support integration of all levels of the business from manufacturing to the customer. Because of Zara’s current solid financial position and leader in the marketplace, Zara will withstand the initial interruption of business to allow implementation of new technology due to their current solid financial position and leadership. KPIs are implemented to provide efficiencies within manufacturing, the DCs and sales to enhance the successful unique business model. ISSUE IDENTIFICATION The following are a list of issues/problems that must be addressed: • DOS system is no longer supported by Microsoft • In-house applications created by vendor • Writing applications versus buying applications • Transparency between stores • Order processing time • No formal IT process for setting budget or deciding on specific technology, investments or projects • Store managers scope of responsibility is high versus no discretion for store layout • No performance measures • No forecasting, buy and respond “on the fly” • Not high end fashion • High capital costs for DCs, manufacturing, and factories • Small batch production ENVIRONMENTAL AND ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS 1. DOS system is no longer supported by Microsoft since 2003. Zara chooses to write all their applications in house. This matches the philosophy for...
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...INSERT TEACHERS NAME INSERT CLASS NAME AND NUMBER 13 November 2015 Royal Crown Derby ERP Case Every day in every town, in every state, in every country there are people who start their own businesses. Some of these businesses succeed and some of them fail, so everyday these people are asking themselves “Why did I fail? Where did I do wrong?” Those that fail can be businesses that had been open and thriving for many years, along with those that just opened and never even gets their name out into the market. Failure to market online is actually one of the top reasons that a business ends up closing its doors. It is estimated that approximately 80% of internet users have used the internet to research specific items and make an online purchase. Therefore, a business should be visible to customers during their online research when shopping. Many businesses allow customers who have already ordered items from them to provide feedback about the products that they have ordered and received from that business. Another reason that businesses fail to succeed is that they aren’t looking at this feedback and taking measures to make right the wrongs that society writes about them. Potential customers are looking at these comments- up to 81%, so why would a business owner not look at these comments themselves? Successful companies are able to create a brand, a way of saying “this is who we are and what we offer” and any media, web content and social media all have the potential of...
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