Hospital asset tracking
in an emergency department
handling 170 patients a day.
At AP-HP Hôpital Saint-Antoine, critical medical equipment moves constantly across emergency care areas - and becomes hard to find exactly when it's needed most. Pole Star deployed real-time indoor location across the department, without disrupting clinical workflows.
The scale of the environment
What is being tracked
More than 100 shared mobile medical assets circulating across emergency care areas, each fitted with a BLE tag.
Equipment that moves constantly - and disappears when it matters
Within the emergency department of Hôpital Saint-Antoine (AP-HP), teams manage 62,000 patients per year - around 170 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. That mobility is exactly what makes it difficult to locate when urgently needed.
Improving real-time visibility of shared medical assets frequently circulating across the department and hard to find under operational pressure.
Deploy a real-time indoor location solution capable of ensuring immediate equipment availability and supporting operational efficiency - without disrupting clinical workflows.
Real-time location, built into the way the department already works
Pole Star deployed a real-time indoor location solution dedicated to medical asset tracking within the emergency department. Critical equipment is fitted with BLE tags, giving continuous real-time visibility of assets across care areas.
Tag the equipment
Each of the 100+ mobile medical assets carries a BLE tag - stretchers, wheelchairs, bladder scanners, ultrasound devices, ECG systems, Dynamap monitors and breathalyzers.
Locate continuously
Indoor positioning tracks tagged equipment across the 3,000 m² care environment, in real time, as it moves between areas.
Find it instantly
Through a dedicated supervision platform, nurses, physicians and operational teams locate available equipment on an interactive map, search for specific devices and see real-time availability.
Keep clinical work untouched
The solution integrates into existing hospital workflows without disrupting clinical operations.
The Pole Star components behind the deployment
The system integrates seamlessly into the hospital environment and supports real-time data visualization and operational monitoring.
NAO® Track
Real-time indoor location calculation for every tagged asset — updated continuously across the 3,000 m² care environment.
BLE tags
Attached to each of the 100+ pieces of mobile medical equipment — stretchers, wheelchairs, scanners, monitors and more.
NAO® Viewer
The supervision interface where nurses, physicians and operational teams visualize assets on an interactive map and instantly search for equipment.
NAO® Flow
Asset tracking workflows, movement history analysis and operational insights — turning location data into evidence for clinical operations.
See the deployment inside the emergency department
A look at how teams at Hôpital Saint-Antoine locate critical medical equipment in real time.
What changed for the emergency care teams
Immediate real-time visibility
Critical medical equipment is visible across the entire 3,000 m² emergency department, live.
Significant reduction in search time
Far less time spent looking for shared assets that circulate between care areas.
Faster access to essential tools
Supporting quicker diagnosis and treatment when time pressure is highest.
Improved inventory management
Better control of mobile equipment across the department.
Enhanced coordination
Improved workflow efficiency within emergency teams sharing the same live view.
Real-time indoor location gave emergency teams immediate equipment availability and supported operational efficiency - integrated into existing hospital workflows, without disrupting clinical operations.
Locating equipment shouldn't cost clinical time
If your teams lose time searching for shared assets, we can walk you through how real-time location applies to your own department - on your floor plans.
- BLE indoor positioning, deployed without disrupting workflows
- Supervision on an interactive map for clinical and operational teams
- Software-first, hardware-agnostic, cloud or on-premise