Hospital Indoor Positioning Technology
Hospital indoor tracking and positioning systems, integrated with hospital maintenance software, help to enhance the patient experience, measure and reduce patient wait times, optimise operating expenses, and increase staff productivity.
- Using our lower-cost sensor tags will influence the total price of the tracking, and that can keep the price in the lower cents per m² per year for the entire solution, not only the infrastructure.
- When considering the price, a greater number of tags will lower the price per tag. Volume pricing is key.
- Less frequent reporting will also lower the Total Cost of Ownership of the infrastructure.
Each use case is unique regarding the needed reporting interval or sensor triggering method, accuracy, and battery life expectations. The 2.5-10-5 method acts as a baseline, but all the points can be altered to ensure a successful deployment that fits the hospital’s requirements. Whatever the use case, supply chain logistics, hospitals, hotels, or manufacturing, the costs will remain in the lower tens of cents per square meter per operational year using indoor positioning technology.
Benefits of Hospital Indoor Positioning Systems
The batteries in the tags/anchor tags and sensors, used for department location data collection, need to last at least five years to ensure that the deployment can reach the desired return on investment (ROI). Even longer battery life can be achieved by using sensor-triggered data collection, such as motion. Read about the indoor positioning system.
Hospital indoor location system
For most needs of hospital indoor positioning systems, location data is up to date with 5-minute reporting intervals for indoor tracking systems. In most cases, even 5-, 10-, and 30-minute intervals are enough. It is possible to collect the data even more frequently. This will affect the power consumption of the wireless anchors and asset tags.
Most of the time, RTLS asset tracking tags trigger data collection. The system collects the data when a change in the network happens. Benefits of wireless sensor-triggered data collection include:
- Lowers the power consumption
- Decreases the load in data management operations in backend systems.
- Integrate with the hospital navigation app
2.5 square meter location accuracy inside hospitals
Use cases in hospitals. Space requires the accuracy of a person’s visual environment, which means roughly 2.5-5-meter zone or room accuracy. That is ample enough to reduce the time used in searching for the assets in a large area, like an office building, speciality hospital reception, patient waiting area, or laboratory.
Hospital indoor tracking positioning systems
For hospital assets that require more accuracy, an easy and affordable solution is to add, e.g. an LED light to the asset tag, which can be lit to guide the nurse or attender to recognise the equipment they are looking for in the area with 2.5-meter location accuracy.
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