Why is Real-time Positioning Technology Important for Modern Nursing Home Management?

Achieving efficient and accurate in-house personnel safety management through technical means has become a core issue in the operation of elderly care institutions. The nursing home personnel positioning system, as a key part of RTLS (Real-Time Location System), with its real-time positioning, electronic fencing, trajectory tracing and emergency response capabilities, is becoming an indispensable infrastructure in the smart elderly care system. Among various positioning technologies, UWB (Ultra-Wideband) stands out in the indoor positioning system field due to its high precision, making it ideal for nursing home scenarios.

Based on its self-developed centimeter-level ultra-high precision UWB and AoA multi-mode fusion positioning technology, Eforthink conducts positioning and position information collection of staff and the elderly in nursing homes by using tags for location, and builds a new type of smart nursing home integrating functions such as real-time monitoring of health data, customized personalized care, alarm for prohibited entry into dangerous areas, and alarm and rescue for distress. This solution can be regarded as a specialized patient tracking system tailored for the elderly in nursing homes, leveraging advanced RTLS technology.

What problems can Eforthink's real-time positioning system, a typical application of RTLS technology, solve for nursing homes?

Real-time Positioning and Trajectory Tracing

By combining precise location-based IoT technology with advanced intelligent hardware (positioning base stations & multi-functional positioning bracelets as tags for location), and cooperating with a visual intelligent supervision platform, this indoor positioning system can track the positions of personnel in the nursing home in real-time, including the elderly and staff, so as to keep track of the elderly's activity trajectory at any time and realize the intelligent management of the nursing home. As a professional patient tracking system, it offers:

• Centimeter-level positioning accuracy relying on UWB:Real-time tracking of personnel positions in public activity areas, corridors and other scenes, with an error range of less than 30 centimeters.
• Historical trajectory replay: it supports searching the historical activity paths of specific personnel by time and region, providing data support for loss tracing and behavior analysis, which is a key feature of RTLS technology.
• Congestion warning:Identify areas with excessive crowd gathering through heat maps to prevent group risks such as stampedes and the spread of infectious diseases.

All-round Intelligent Monitoring

Virtual electronic fences are drawn in key areas on the map of this indoor positioning system. When the elderly, wearing tags for location, stray beyond these areas, such as building entrances and exits, nursing home gates, etc., the system can quickly alarm and link with on-site video surveillance, so that managers can timely understand the specific location and status of the elderly.

Through functions such as electronic fence management and video linkage in key areas, this patient tracking system enhances the control of dangerous areas, prevents safety accidents, and provides a strong guarantee for the life, health and daily life of the elderly.

• Dynamic fence setting:the system sets virtual boundaries in dangerous areas (such as power distribution rooms, drug storage rooms) in the RTLS technology-based system; when personnel with tags for location approach, it triggers audio and visual alarms and pushes notifications to the nursing terminal.
• Permission-level control:Restrict elderly people with cognitive impairment from entering high-risk areas, while authorizing medical staff to pass freely, a flexible management feature enabled by UWB positioning.
• Detention warning: Monitor the stay time of personnel in toilets, shower rooms and other areas via their tags for location, to prevent secondary risks of falling without being found.

All-day Safety Protection

A one-click call for help function is set up on the tags for location worn by the elderly. When the elderly encounter an accident, they can use the positioning tag card to call for help. The patient tracking system can accurately locate the detailed position of the elderly at the first time, facilitating nursing staff to carry out rescue work immediately. When the elderly have abnormal situations such as crossing the boundary, detention, and being stationary, as detected by their tags for location, the system, powered by RTLS technology, can also alarm immediately.

• One-click call for help linkage:The positioning tags worn by the elderly, as a type of tags for location, integrate an SOS button; once triggered, the indoor positioning system automatically pushes the position information to the handheld terminal of the nearest nurse.
• Intelligent fall recognition: Through the acceleration sensor and AI algorithm built in the tags for location, fall events are identified and a three-level alarm process is started, a smart feature of this UWB-based system.
• Emergency plan triggering:In case of emergencies such as fire and earthquake, the system, utilizing RTLS technology, automatically generates the optimal evacuation path and navigates to the safe area.

Formulating Targeted Care Plans

Regular physical examinations are conducted for the elderly, and real-time monitoring of their health data such as heart rate and blood pressure is carried out. The relevant data such as heart rate, blood pressure and blood sugar are logged into the patient tracking system to intelligently generate all-round and multi-dimensional reports, providing data analysis tools for formulating more practical care plans for the elderly, so as to realize customized health services and personalized care. This is made more efficient with the support of UWB positioning data.

Optimization of Nursing Home Management Efficiency

Nursing path planning: it is based on data from the indoor positioning system that shows the distribution of the elderly's positions and the priority of nursing tasks, recommend the optimal inspection route for nurses to reduce the time of ineffective movement, a key application of RTLS technology.

• Working hour statistics and assessment:Quantify the service time and response efficiency of nurses in the elderly's rooms and public areas through positioning data from tags for location.
• Resource scheduling analysis:it Counts the usage frequency and peak hours of rehabilitation equipment and activity venues with the help of UWB positioning, and optimize resource allocation and scheduling plans.

Eforthink's nursing home personnel positioning system solution, a sophisticated integration of UWB, RTLS technology, and indoor positioning system capabilities, provides a better management tool for the managers of elderly care institutions. As an advanced patient tracking system using tags for location, it can effectively help elderly care institutions improve the safety management of the elderly, reduce the workload of staff, lower the operating costs of elderly care institutions, and improve the service level and management efficiency.