Real-time location systems (RTLS) enable asset tracking and are gaining traction in the healthcare sector. By facilitating equipment and patient tracking and locating as well as automated equipment maintenance and repetitive data entry tasks, RTLS can improve hospital workflows, increase equipment utilization, and simplify patient monitoring.
Through context awareness, the operating room (OR) staff can be ready with the available information displayed in the most suitable way at each time point during the surgical procedure. Contextual support is achieved in an OR by tracking events and activities through automatic signal recognition available from different OR tools and systems.