MULTILEVEL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR HOSPITALS

摘要

A modularly structured communication system for use in a localized area such as within a hospital environment that provides wireless transceiver units for effectively immobile individuals such as patients (22-40), wireless transceiver units for completely mobile individuals such as health care providers (16-20), stationary satellite units proximate to an area within which the patient and health care provider units would operate (12, 14), and finally, a master command unit (10) typically located in a single centralized position within the hospital that ties together the satellite units and thereby ties together each of the modular wireless transceiver units within the system. The master control unit is primarily responsible for maintenance of data on the elements within the system and for communication of telephone transmissions from within the system to the outside world through modem and/or telephone switching lines.