tool cart in a warehouse or medical equipment in a hospital create notifications when an object moves, such as an alert if a tool cart left the facility combine identity of multiple items placed in a single location, such as on a pallet locate customers, for example in a restaurant, for delivery of food or service maintain proper staffing levels of operational areas, such as ensuring guards are in the proper locations in a correctional facility quickly and automatically account for all staff after or during an emergency evacuation Toronto General Hospital is looking at RTLS to reduce quarantine times after an infectious disease outbreak. After a recent SARS outbreak, 1% of all staff were quarantined. With RTLS, they would have more accurate data regarding who had been exposed to the virus, potentially reducing the need for quarantines. aid in process improvement efforts by automatically tracking and time stamping the progress of people or assets through a process, such as following a patient's emergency room wait time, time spent in the operating room, and total time until discharge help in healthcare provision through staff and patient monitoring and delivering the right equipment for use in certain situations as the technology eliminates long hours of storing manual reports, calling, locating staff and equipment aid in acute care capacity management through clinical-care locating provide Wayfinding for guests in a facility, like hospitals and stadiums prevent Child abduction by sounding alerts or alarms if an infant leaves the boundary of a hospital's Birthing center Privacy concerns RTLS may be seen as a threat to privacy when used to determine the location of people. The newly declared human right of informational self-determination gives the right to prevent one's identity and personal data from being disclosed to others and also covers disclosure of locality, though this does not generally apply to the workplace. Several prominent labor unions have spoken out against the use of RTLS systems to track workers, calling them "the beginning of Big Brother" and "an invasion of privacy". Current location-tracking technologies can be used to pinpoint users of mobile devices in several ways. First, service providers have access to network-based and handset-based technologies that can locate a phone for emergency purposes. Second, historical location can frequently be discerned from service provider records. Thirdly, other devices such as Wi-Fi hotspots or IMSI catchers can be used to track nearby mobile devices in real