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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2017
Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag, Gothenburg, SE;
Hakan Lindstrom, Gothenburg, SE;
Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag, Gothenburg, SE;
Abstract
A system is provided for determining a hygiene compliance metric which indicates a usage of hygiene equipment. The system includes distributed hygiene equipment arranged to dispense a hygiene consumable and/or to dispose of a hygiene consumable, a tag configured to at least transmit radio signals; positioning equipment arranged to determine information on a position of said tag by at least receiving radio signals from said tag; and a processing entity. The processing entity is configured to receive said information on a position of said tag, to define a zone into which said tag may enter, to define a rule, and to calculate said hygiene compliance metric based on said information on the position, said zone, and said rule.