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More time for care. Less risk of infection.
A hospital never stops moving — patients, staff and equipment, all shift long. Redpoint shows who met whom, where every critical device is and how people flow through your wards, automatically and accurately.
The moment
An infection spreads through contacts nobody wrote down.
A nurse moves from one patient to the next. A pump is wheeled between rooms. A waiting area fills up. Every one of those moments is a chance for an infection to travel — and manual records rarely capture them all.
Annually, approximately 2 million patients suffer with healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in the USA, and nearly 90,000 are estimated to die. The overall direct cost of HAIs to hospitals ranges from US$28 billion to 45 billion.
Source: PubMed, 19817525
At the same time, equipment goes missing when it’s needed most, and staff spend time searching and recording that could go to patients. The problem isn’t effort. It’s visibility.
What changes with Redpoint
Reliable data for tracing, and for managing risk.
Patients, assets and clinical staff are identified automatically. Records of patient–staff interactions and adherence to cleaning and safety protocols build themselves — no manual entry, no gaps.
Contact recorded: nurse and patient, Room 3
- A nurse heads to Room 3. Dark badges are staff; light badges are patients.
- Their badges come within close range at the bedside.
- The contact is recorded — who met whom, and where — with no manual entry.
- Ready to trace if an infection is found later.
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Contact tracing that does itself
The platform traces contact between patients and staff automatically, and records adherence to infection-control protocols, including cleaning of equipment and handwashing.
Staff can spot a breach earlier and trigger steps to contain it.
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Equipment where it should be
Virtual zones in Redpoint’s SiteWise software keep critical tagged assets in their place. If one leaves its zone, the right staff are alerted and the alert is recorded. Authorized staff can change zones easily.
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Patients who wait less
See how patients flow through your facilities, monitor wait times and the capacity of waiting areas, and offer better wayfinding — reducing crowding, cross-infection risk and frustration.
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Open the estimator in a new tab ↗Where it helps
From the ward to the equipment room.
Hospitals are dense and complicated. UWB location stays accurate there, and the same network serves infection control, asset tracking and patient flow.
Insight · Operations
Improve healthcare operations with UWB
Heat maps and spaghetti diagrams show how patients and staff move, so scheduling and room capacity can adapt in real time.
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Insight · Staff
Improve staff utilisation, reduce burnout
Less administrative burden and fewer repetitive tasks, so clinicians spend more of their shift on patient care.
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Insight · Equipment
Improve your equipment utilisation
Find available or underused devices quickly, redeploy them, and be alerted the moment tagged equipment leaves its area.
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The outcomes
Preparing you for the next generation of hospital operations.
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Reduce length of stay
Lower the risk of infections and complications that drive up treatment costs. Reduce the antibiotics needed to treat HAIs and minimize the risk of antibiotic resistance.
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Improve patient safety
Identify risk and isolate potential infections as early as possible. Manage patient flow and waiting-area occupancy to avoid the overcrowding that spreads infection.
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Build tomorrow’s infrastructure
Modern phones have UWB built in and can become part of the network. UWB runs on extremely low power and doesn’t interfere with your existing wireless systems.
How it works in a hospital
Small tags, a mesh network, and a record that fills itself in.
Staff, patients and equipment wear small ultra-wideband tags. Once the infrastructure is installed, devices are managed and configured remotely, and you see the location and movement of everyone and everything that’s tagged.
- Contact resolution
- Interactions recorded with a typical resolution of 10 to 25 cm
- Off-network memory
- Patented tag-to-tag communication stores 500 contact events on the tag, uploaded automatically once the tag is back in UWB coverage
- Latency
- Position data available on the tag in <50 ms
- Range
- Devices have a range of 50 meters; the infrastructure forms a mesh network
- Contact history
- Proximity of individuals and cumulative time spent together, for accurate tracing
- Visualization
- Heat maps of people and density, spaghetti diagrams and movement replay
- Assets
- SiteWise virtual zones with real-time alerts when a tagged asset leaves its zone
- Coexistence
- Extremely low power; no interference with existing wireless technologies
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