AP‑HP Hôpital Saint‑Antoine - Asset Tracking
Context & challenges
Within the emergency department of Hôpital Saint-Antoine (AP-HP), teams manage 62,000 patients per year, around 170 patients per day, across a 3,000 m² care environment operating under constant time pressure. In this high-intensity setting, critical medical equipment is continuously moved between emergency care areas, making it difficult to locate when urgently needed.
The key challenge identified was:
Improving real-time visibility of shared medical assets frequently circulating across the department and hard to find under operational pressure.
The objective was to deploy a real-time indoor location solution capable of ensuring immediate equipment availability and supporting operational efficiency, without disrupting clinical workflows.
Project scope
The project covers emergency department workflows at Hôpital Saint-Antoine (AP-HP) and focuses on real-time tracking of shared mobile medical equipment across a 3,000 m² care environment.
It includes:
Tracking of more than 100 mobile medical assets, including:
stretchers
wheelchairs
bladder scanners
ultrasound devices
ECG systems
Dynamap monitors
breathalyzers
Indoor positioning based on BLE tags attached to each piece of equipment
A real-time supervision platform accessible to nurses, physicians and operational teams, enabling instant visualization and search of available assets
The solution integrates into existing hospital workflows without disrupting clinical operations.
Solution deployed
Pole Star deployed a real-time indoor location solution dedicated to medical asset tracking within the emergency department of Hôpital Saint-Antoine (AP-HP). Critical medical equipment is equipped with BLE tags, providing continuous real-time visibility of assets across care areas.
Through a dedicated supervision platform, nurses, physicians and operational teams can instantly locate available equipment on an interactive map, search for specific devices and access real-time availability information. This enables faster access to essential tools and reduces delays in diagnosis and treatment, without impacting existing clinical workflows.
Pole Star architecture & solutions
The solution relies on the following components:
NAO® Track for real-time indoor location calculation
BLE tags attached to each piece of mobile medical equipment
NAO® Viewer, the supervision interface allowing nurses, physicians and operational teams to visualize assets on an interactive map and instantly search for equipment
NAO® Flow for asset tracking workflows, movement history analysis and operational insights
The system integrates seamlessly into the hospital environment and supports real-time data visualization and operational monitoring.
Operational benefits
The deployment delivers clear benefits for emergency care teams:
Immediate real-time visibility of critical medical equipment across the 3,000 m² emergency department
Significant reduction in time spent searching for shared assets
Faster access to essential tools, supporting quicker diagnosis and treatment
Improved inventory management and better control of mobile equipment
Enhanced coordination and workflow efficiency within emergency teams
