The Challenge of Modern Healthcare Environments
Hospitals and healthcare facilities are complex physical environments with multi-floor layouts, long corridors, and specialized areas from imaging suites and operating rooms to commercial kitchens.
Delivering care requires constant operational activity involving highly synchronized movement and interactions between staff, patients, and equipment.
At the same time, hospitals are increasingly operating with:
- High patient volumes
- Critical, time-sensitive workflows
- Large quantities of high-value equipment
Traditional RTLS solutions often struggle in these environments. Signal interference from medical equipment such as CT scanners and X-ray machines can delay or distort location data.
Healthcare facilities require RTLS that delivers accurate, real-time data without compromise.
Built for Complex, High-Demand Healthcare Settings
Actall’s RTLS platform is designed specifically for architecturally dense, signal-heavy environments like hospitals.
The system combines:
- Dual-band frequency operation
- Signal prioritization for duress and critical events
- Configurable locator density by department
- Reliable propagation across floors and materials
This ensures that location and duress signals are transmitted quickly and accurately, even in areas where other systems fail.
The result is dependable, real-time visibility across the entire facility.
Actall Solutions for Behavioral Health and Forensic Facilities
Staff Duress and Safety
Enable staff to trigger immediate alerts with precise location data, ensuring rapid response in high-risk situations.
Critical Asset Tracking
Track critical equipment such as infusion pumps, ventilators, and mobile devices to reduce loss, duplication, and delays in care.
Workflow and Efficiency
Monitor movement patterns to identify inefficiencies, improve coordination, and optimize time spent on patient care.
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Benefits of RTLS in Healthcare Environments
Implementing RTLS healthcare facilities delivers measurable operational and safety benefits when the system is accurate and reliable.
Improve Efficiency Without Compromising Care
Healthcare providers spend a significant amount of time locating equipment and coordinating activities.
RTLS directly addresses this.
In real-world deployments, RTLS has reduced time spent locating equipment and improved availability of critical devices, freeing up staff time for patient care.
It also supports:
- Faster response to patient needs
- Improved coordination across departments
- Better use of staff time and resources
Efficiency gains translate directly into improved care delivery.
Focus on Safety
Healthcare and medical workers “encounter more nonfatal incidents of workplace violence than workers in any other profession,” according to a 2020 study published in The American Journal of Managed Care.
Similar studies have demonstrated the high likelihood of nurses and healthcare workers being verbally assaulted, physically grabbed or intimidated. A significant number of these violent incidents resulted in workers needing to take time off from their job due to physical injury or emotional distress.
How can RTLS help? By getting help where it’s needed, quickly, to de-escalate a situation and avoid emotional and physical trauma for both healthcare providers and patients. Some out-of-the-box RTLS setups rely on triangulation, overloaded WiFi networks or other technologies, which can delay duress signal propagation for up to 10 minutes—critical time in preventing or addressing a high-risk situation. Actall’s RTLS solution gets signals from a nurse’s duress button to a head-end monitor in 3.0 seconds or less.
"Healthcare professionals face violence every day, but the right RTLS system can create a culture of safety"
Why Actall for Healthcare
Many RTLS systems are adapted from retail, warehousing, or general IoT applications.
Healthcare environments require more.
Actall’s platform is engineered to handle:
- Signal interference from medical equipment
- Complex layouts and building materials
- High-density, multi-floor environments
- Real-time safety-critical applications
This ensures consistent performance where other systems lose accuracy or reliability.