The LOR is likely to be a Location Services system (LS) also recognized by the underlying technology used for equipment and people tracking, such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or Real Time Location Services (RTLS), but may also be an actor in a different profile (DEC DOR, ACM AR, IPEC DOR), assuming the location tracking and reporting capability is embedded into the medical device or the location observation is merged with the medical device data in a gateway system prior to it being sent to the observation consumer