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Contact with surfaces is one of the leading causes of infections and cross contaminations in hospitals. Although some efforts in design in addition to developing process routines to prevent/limit pathogen transmission exist, there may be lapses and this calls for better technological intervention to prevent such transmission. The less number of touchpoints the hospital employees need the greater the possibility of decreasing cross contamination. This paper introduces a touchless access control based on beacon technology for a regular hospital setting. Much of the data used in this paper are obtained from an ethnographic approach which also is the basis for the three use cases introduced in the paper. A prototype consisting of three Estimote Bluetooth low energy beacons/transmitters; one Android smartphone receiver; a cloud based API and one Raspberry Pi 3 mini computer was developed as a part of this work. It was found that the system’s classification model provided accurate positioning in a 2D space.
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Hansen, S.B., Komandur, S. (2019). Touchless Access Control Using iBeacons in Norwegian Hospitals. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96089-0_41
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