A couple of years ago I wrote a white paper discussing the various technologies, WIFI, Zigbee, UWB, the landscope of RTLS (Real Time Location Systems), not to be confused with RFID, (Radio Frequency Identification). Here is a good paper by Adrian Jennings of www.timedomain.com . This is non-technical way of explaining the value propositions of the different approaches. As the RTLS market in healthcare is in full swing, meaning growing rapidly because the need to track assets, no doubt there will be different needs and requirements for each respective institution.
Download RTLSWhitepaper030108.pdf
