Wireless network in hospital

[dinieus]

Under investigating the wireless architecture for large hospital, but I don¡¦t have much knowledge about medical environments. Can anyone give some suggestion or provide information about anything should be specially taken care in this critical case.

Thanks for any information.

[derwin]

Here is a link to a white paper on WLAN and the healthcare environment

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/hw/wireless/ps458/products_white_paper09186a008011a606.shtml

I hope this helps

David

[dinieus]

Thanks, it helps a lot.

[bilmartin]

-Hospitals use fire doors, perform site surveys with doors closed.

-Xray rooms are protected with Lead. So no coverage unless radio is outside and antenna is inside.

-Elevators may require coverage by shooting down shafts from above.

- portable carts used by nurses require seamless roaming from one cell to another. Test thoroughly in site survey.

-Beware of interference, pay attention to signal quality, probably want better than 85%.