The globally active bed manufacturer Stiegelmeyer and the Berlin software company simplinic present a novel bed management concept for the Smart Hospital. Occupancy status and location of beds are automatically transmitted by sensors in real time and processed in software. Free beds can be located fully automatically anywhere in the hospital. As a result, live data replaces the previous time-consuming "midnight statistics" on occupancy. Follow-up processes such as demand-based room cleaning are triggered automatically. At Sana Klinikum Duisburg, the first beds are in live operation.
- Live occupancy status through sensor technology in Stiegelmeyer hospital beds
- Real-time location of beds in the hospital
- automatic occupancy-dependent control of cleaning
- Pilot operation successfully launched at Sana Klinikum Duisburg
Stiegelmeyer and the ioT software company simplinic are presenting a novel, jointly developed bed management concept to the trade public for the first time. Sensors in the bed transmit via Bluetooth whether a bed is occupied or not. The location of a bed is also localized in real time. This live data greatly simplifies the search for a suitable bed. Particularly when case managers or occupancy managers are not on duty - at night or on weekends, for example - this facilitates onward transfers from the emergency room and noticeably reduces the workload on staff.
"Our sensors are enabling a real process revolution in hospitals," says Gunter Röper, CMO at Stiegelmeyer. "Now it is finally possible to retrieve live data on available bed capacities." Beyond occupancy and location, the sensors will also transmit information about the technical condition of the bed in the future to plan maintenance or repair more efficiently. Stiegelmeyer's hospital beds will be offered with sensors ex works in the future. Customers who already use models such as the Evario can retrofit their beds with sensors at any time.
"Many follow-up processes depend on occupancy," explains Steffen Geyer, founder of simplinic. "Midnight statistics also become superfluous." Follow-up processes can be automatically controlled via the duration of occupancy to save costs. For example, maintenance cleaning of patient rooms is only based on actual occupancy, saving costs compared to routine cleaning, which is usually done completely independently of actual hospital occupancy. The intensity of cleaning can also be automatically controlled depending on the duration and frequency of occupancy. Analyses provide information per individual bed about when which bed was cleaned and where.
