Bluetooth asset positioning and tracking technology has begun to be applied to assets and equipment management in various industries. Many institutions and enterprises have begun to try to use real-time Bluetooth positioning systems to accurately locate their various assets, machinery and equipment, tools, materials, products, etc. , Improve the management and use efficiency of various assets and equipment, thereby saving operating costs.
Asset Location Tracking in the Healthcare Industry
Applications in the medical industry can fully demonstrate the potential of Bluetooth in asset location tracking. Whether important equipment or key drugs can be found at the fastest speed is related to the lives of patients. Bluetooth location services solutions can support a range of tailored applications that not only improve care efficiency, but also improve tracking and management of assets, processes, and compliance with regulatory standards.
Studies have shown that in hospitals, nursing staff waste an average of one hour per shift looking for equipment. It is time-consuming, costly and, in an emergency, dangerous.
In hospitals, equipment such as ultrasound machines, concentrators, mobile elevators, and other assets can be equipped with Bluetooth location tags. Through Bluetooth asset location tracking, managers can see their real-time locations in the management system and know whether the equipment has been disinfected. and whether it can be used.
In this way, the hospital can track the equipment in real time, allocate the appropriate resources to the appropriate medical team in time, and ensure that valuable equipment is not lost. The hospital can also obtain the real-time location of medical equipment, trolleys, wheelchairs and other equipment through asset location tracking, and ensure that it can be dispatched in time when visitors or patients need it.
By deploying the Bluetooth asset location tracking solution, the hospital can save an average of millions of dollars in equipment management costs every year, and greatly improve equipment safety and use efficiency.
Indoors, such as in hospital application scenarios, through Bluetooth Beacon, the movement track of assets and equipment can be described, navigated and managed. Realize the efficient use of medical supplies and medical equipment, and then protect expensive equipment and improve equipment utilization.
SKYLAB Assets and Items Positioning Solution Based on Bluetooth Beacon iBeacon
plan description:
(1) Bluetooth ibeacon beacon: send its own broadcast packets at intervals;
(2) The mobile phone APP scans the broadcast packets of the surrounding Bluetooth beacons (ibeacon), and transmits information such as MAC address, RSSI value, time, and power to the background server.
(3) The background server calculates the position of the Bluetooth beacon (ibeacon) according to the RSSI value combined with the map.
According to the requirements of asset positioning, we calculate the existence (asset inventory) and approximate location of asset beacons. Since we marked the position of the reference beacon on the map in the background, the position of the asset beacon can be calculated by comparing the obtained RSSI value of the asset beacon with the RSSI value of the reference beacon.
(4) The location of reference beacons and asset beacons can be obtained from the server through any mobile phone or display terminal, and the fixed assets can be counted and the situation of fixed assets can be monitored in real time.
Indoor positioning components based on Bluetooth Beacon: The indoor positioning solution based on Bluetooth Beacon is also called terminal-side positioning by industry engineers. The terminal-side positioning system consists of terminal equipment (such as mobile phones with specific APP installed) and Bluetooth Beacon, fingerprint positioning technology , a wireless local area network and a back-end data server. Fingerprint positioning technology is to measure the signal characteristics (signal number, strength, etc.) at each position in advance and store them in the fingerprint database. When locating, match the current signal features with those in the fingerprint library to determine the location.
SKYLAB Bluetooth-based gateway asset and item positioning solution
plan description:
(1) ibeacon Bluetooth Beacon: The asset positioning beacon sends broadcast packets at intervals.
(2) Bluetooth gateway: Scan and collect the broadcast packets of the surrounding Bluetooth beacons, and transmit information such as MAC address, RSSI value, time, power, etc. to the background server through 4G/5G/WiFi/Ethernet.
(3) The background server calculates the position of the Bluetooth beacon (Beacon) according to the RSSI value combined with the map.
According to the requirements of asset positioning, we calculate the existence (asset inventory) and approximate location of asset beacons. Since we marked the position of the reference beacon on the map in the background, the position of the asset beacon can be calculated by comparing the obtained RSSI value of the asset beacon with the RSSI value of the reference beacon. And send the information to the customer's management system through the API interface.
(4) The location of reference beacons and asset beacons can be obtained from the server through any mobile phone or display terminal, and the fixed assets can be counted and the situation of fixed assets can be monitored in real time.
For the hospital's mobile device management, it is only necessary to add an asset management tag with corresponding information, and then the corresponding management, tracking, and alarm can be carried out in the built Bluetooth asset management network in the hospital.