Which technologies do you consult on?

All of the major location, identification and IoT technologies: RTLS (UWB, BLE, Wi-Fi), RFID (passive, active and RAIN UHF), industrial IoT and sensors, GPS and GNSS, AGV and AMR robot fleets, and hybrid stacks that combine them. We recommend the right mix for each zone and use case, not a single technology.

Are you really vendor-neutral?

Yes. We do not sell hardware or a software platform of our own, and we take no resale commissions, so our technology and vendor recommendations serve your outcome rather than a product we need to move.

Do you work outside the UK?

We are UK-based and work across Europe and internationally, delivering in English, German and French. Engagements can be remote or on-site depending on the work.

What does a consulting engagement include?

Typically discovery and requirements, vendor-neutral technology selection, vendor evaluation and RFP support, ROI and business case, solution architecture, and an implementation roadmap. We scope each engagement to where you are.

Can you help after the decision is made?

Yes. We work across the full lifecycle - we can also deploy, integrate, and operate the system, so you can keep one independent team from business case through to live operation.

How do we get started?

Usually with a short call or a fixed-fee discovery to scope the problem, followed by a proposal with clear deliverables, timeline and fees. There is no obligation and no platform pitch.

Which is better for infant protection — BLE-AoA or UWB?

Both work. BLE-AoA-based Quuppa solutions are mainstream. UWB pulls ahead in very dense labour-and-delivery units where sub-decimetre certainty at the bed level matters. Most deployments are BLE-AoA.

Will my existing Wi-Fi APs work for RTLS?

Most hospital Wi-Fi (Cisco, Aruba) supports BLE positioning at room level — not sub-metre AoA. Sub-metre needs purpose-built BLE-AoA Locators (Quuppa) or upgraded AP models. We size the right architecture in stage 1.

Does CenTrak use BLE-AoA or UWB?

CenTrak uses a proprietary multi-tech stack — low-frequency RF for certainty, BLE and Wi-Fi for broader visibility. It's neither purely BLE-AoA nor UWB, but a hospital-optimised hybrid.

How does this integrate with our EMR (Epic / Cerner)?

Through HL7 v2 / FHIR and vendor-specific APIs into Epic Rover and Cerner location services. We design EMR integration in stage 1 — see /integrations/epic and /integrations/cerner-oracle-health.

What's the right deployment sequence?

Typically: phase 1, broad RTLS coverage (BLE-AoA or multi-tech) for asset finding and workflow; phase 2, add high-acuity zones (UWB or ultrasound) for hand-hygiene attribution, infant protection, surgical-instrument tracking. We define phases in stage 1 of /method.

VERGELIJKING · GEZONDHEIDSZORG

BLE - AoA vs UWB voor gezondheidszorg RTLS — wat past.

BLE-AoA and UWB are the two leading RTLS technologies for hospital deployments — clinical workflow, infant protection, hand-hygiene compliance, asset finding, patient elopement prevention.

The accuracy needed varies dramatically by use case, and the right choice is rarely "the more accurate one". This is the operator-level comparison for clinical engineering and IT teams choosing between them.

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De nauwkeurigheidshiërarchie in de gezondheidszorg

Hospital use cases stack at different accuracy tiers. Room-level: asset finding, broad workflow attribution, patient location for billing. Bed-level: infant protection, equipment association with patient, fall prevention, medication-administration record matching.

Sub-decimetre: hand-hygiene compliance with confirmed point-of-care attribution, surgical-instrument tracking. UWB delivers all three. BLE-AoA delivers room and bed comfortably; sub-decimetre is harder but possible in dense deployments.

Tagbatterijbeheer — de operationele beslissende factor

Hospitals have hundreds to thousands of tagged staff, patients, beds and assets. BLE-AoA tags: 2–5 years on a coin cell. UWB tags: months to two years depending on update rate.

For a hospital fleet of 3,000 active tags, BLE-AoA's longer battery life reduces operational burden by 10× or more. Many large hospitals reject UWB on operational-overhead grounds even when accuracy is competitive.

Use-case fit

BLE-AoA wins: most asset tracking; clinical workflow attribution; bed-level infant protection (Quuppa-based systems are mainstream); broad hand-hygiene at room-level; equipment-utilisation analytics.

UWB wins: sub-decimetre hand-hygiene with confirmed point-of-care; surgical-instrument tracking; critical-care patient location with millisecond latency; high-density labour-and-delivery infant tagging.

Most hospital deployments mix both — UWB in the few zones that need it, BLE-AoA everywhere else.

Leverancierslandschap in de gezondheidszorg

BLE-AoA / multi-tech healthcare RTLS: Quuppa (BLE-AoA underlay), CenTrak (multi-tech: low-frequency RF + BLE + Wi-Fi; market leader in hospital RTLS), Stanley AeroScout (Wi-Fi based, healthcare-specific), Sonitor (ultrasound for bed-level certainty), Midmark RTLS.

UWB healthcare: BeWhere, Sewio (industrial-leaning but used in hospitals), Decawave-platform vendors. Most large hospital RTLS deployments are CenTrak or Stanley AeroScout for the broad footprint, with UWB or ultrasound for the few zones needing sub-decimetre.

EPD's en klinische integratie

Both ecosystems integrate into Epic, Cerner / Oracle Health, Meditech, Allscripts via standard interfaces (HL7 v2, FHIR, vendor-specific APIs).

Clinical workflow attribution ("who saw which patient when") requires correlating tag events with appointment data — the integration architecture matters more than the underlying radio.

We design integration in stage 1 — see /integrations/epic and /integrations/cerner-oracle-health.

Waar TRACIO elk aanbeveelt

Default to BLE-AoA for new hospital RTLS deployments where broad coverage matters: asset finding, workflow, infant protection, room-level hand hygiene. The operational advantage of multi-year battery life is decisive at hospital scale.

Add UWB in specific zones where sub-decimetre accuracy is non-negotiable: high-acuity hand hygiene with confirmed POC, surgical-instrument tracking, critical-care location.

Consider multi-tech RTLS (CenTrak, Stanley AeroScout) when you want a single platform vendor covering the full breadth — accepting that no single radio does everything optimally.

FAQ

Veelgestelde vragen

Wat is beter voor babybescherming — BLE - AoA of UWB?

Beide werken. BLE - AoA-gebaseerde Quuppa-oplossingen zijn mainstream. UWB loopt uit in zeer dichte bevallingsunits waar subdecimeterzekerheid op bedniveau van belang is. De meeste implementaties zijn BLE - AoA.

Werken mijn bestaande Wi-Fi AP's voor RTLS?

De meeste ziekenhuis-Wi-Fi (Cisco, Aruba) ondersteunen BLE-positionering op kamerniveau — niet sub-meter AoA. Submeter vereist speciaal gebouwde BLE - AoA Locators (Quuppa) of verbeterde AP-modellen. We bepalen de juiste architectuur in fase 1.

Gebruikt CenTrak BLE - AoA of UWB?

CenTrak gebruikt een propriëtaire multi-tech stack — laagfrequente RF voor zekerheid, BLE en Wi-Fi voor bredere zichtbaarheid. Het is noch puur BLE - AoA noch UWB, maar een ziekenhuisgeoptimaliseerde hybride.

Hoe integreert dit met ons EPD (Epic / Cerner)?

Via HL7 v2 / FHIR en leveranciersspecifieke API's in Epic Rover en Cerner locatieservices. We ontwerpen EMR-integratie in fase 1 — zie /integrations/epic en /integrations/cerner-oracle-health.

Wat is de juiste volgorde van de inzet?

Typisch: fase 1, brede RTLS-dekking (BLE - AoA of multi-tech) voor het vinden van assets en workflow;

fase 2, voeg hoog-acuïteitzones toe (UWB of echografie) voor handhygiënetoeschouwing, bescherming van zuigelingen, tracking met chirurgische instrumenten. We definiëren fasen in fase 1 van /method.

Laatst bijgewerkt: 26 mei 2026