Asset tracking: Montélimar hospital locates its medical devices
The Hospital Center of Montélimar trusted Apitrak and ELA Innovation to meet a major challenge… This one consisted in geolocalizing infusion devices within the health establishment while answering a certain number of constraints. Indeed, the size of the beacons had to be adapted to the equipment, the precision of localization had to be adjustable, and finally the proposed solution had to be easy to use and maintain. To meet this challenge, Apitrak deployed an Indoor geolocation solution based on a set of ELA Innovation beacons in Mesh network.
The shape factor of the tags was very important for the customer, which is what pushed us to choose the COIN line from ELA Innovation. Compact, this tag integrates particularly well with small medical devices such as syringe pumps that have to withstand harsh conditions.
Vincent Lê
CEO - Apitrak
The Hospital Center of Montélimar trusted Apitrak and ELA Innovation to meet a major challenge… This one consisted in geolocalizing infusion devices within the health establishment while answering a certain number of constraints. Indeed, the size of the beacons had to be adapted to the equipment, the precision of localization had to be adjustable, and finally the proposed solution had to be easy to use and maintain. To meet this challenge, Apitrak deployed an Indoor geolocation solution based on a set of ELA Innovation beacons in Mesh network.
The shape factor of the tags was very important for the customer, which is what pushed us to choose the COIN line from ELA Innovation. Compact, this tag integrates particularly well with small medical devices such as syringe pumps that have to withstand harsh conditions.
Vincent Lê
CEO - Apitrak
The project's participants
- The client's needs
- Technical Operation
- Results
The client's needs
✓ Locate medical equipment in the hospital with an accuracy of less than 10 meters.
✓ An easy to use solution
✓ A beacon size adapted to the hardware to be located
✓ An easy to use solution
✓ A beacon size adapted to the hardware to be located
Technical Operation
From a technical point of view, the localization solution is based on a meshed network of fixed and mobile beacons. The former, also known as anchors, are installed at regular intervals (20 – 25 meters) throughout the site, while the latter are positioned directly on syringe pushers and infusion pumps. The mobile Blue COIN ID Mesh emits signals to the various anchors, which in turn pick up all dialogues and transmit the information to the gateway.
However, since the data collected by the beacons is raw, it is transformed into GPS data (altitude, latitude and longitude) by the Wirepas Positioning Engine and visualized on the Apitrak Explorer web application. The battery-powered infrastructure, requiring no connection, facilitates the deployment of the solution and ensures an extremely competitive total cost of ownership.
However, since the data collected by the beacons is raw, it is transformed into GPS data (altitude, latitude and longitude) by the Wirepas Positioning Engine and visualized on the Apitrak Explorer web application. The battery-powered infrastructure, requiring no connection, facilitates the deployment of the solution and ensures an extremely competitive total cost of ownership.
Results
✓ Saving time of the biomedical team
✓ Better knowledge of the utilization rate of each device
✓ Simplifies equipment sharing between departments
✓ Better knowledge of the utilization rate of each device
✓ Simplifies equipment sharing between departments
Equipment
- The benefits
- Results
The benefits
✓ Beacon size: 36mm diameter
✓ Low set-up costs
✓ Accuracy of 5 to 10 meters
✓ Beacons 100% autonomous
✓ High autonomy
✓ High refresh rate
✓ Low set-up costs
✓ Accuracy of 5 to 10 meters
✓ Beacons 100% autonomous
✓ High autonomy
✓ High refresh rate
Results
✓ Saving time of the biomedical team
✓ Better knowledge of the utilization rate of each device
✓ Simplifies equipment sharing between departments
✓ Better knowledge of the utilization rate of each device
✓ Simplifies equipment sharing between departments
