Real Time Asset Tracking System (T2TC - Time 2 Track Care)
T2TC leverages AWS to Monitor Hospital Assets in Real-Time
The T2TC (Time 2 Track Care) solution leverages the capabilities of AWS to track thousands of assets in real-time, meeting business growth, improving nursing efficiencies while reducing operational costs.
T2TC worked closely with its partners to develop and implement the serverless Smart Healthcare Platform (SHP) based on AWS services. The solution streams asset data from Bluetooth sensors on medical beds and other devices through the AWS IoT Core and Amazon Kinesis. The SHP solution uses AWS Lambda for processing events and scaling quickly in a cost-effective way. The data is stored in Amazon Aurora and Amazon DynamoDB databases, and the solution complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Nurses and other hospital workers use smartphones, tablets, or PCs to access the data through a web-based application built using advanced REST APIs. Customers have the ability to access data thru a simple web interface. In addition, the SHP uses machine learning algorithms to analyze asset utilization and enable predictive maintenance.
Tracking Thousands of Medical Assets in Real Time
With the SHP solution, hospitals can take advantage of AWS Lambda to process thousands of events in seconds. Using the Smart Healthcare Platform on AWS, hospitals can easily track and monitor beds, patient movement, wheelchairs, and other inventory while sensing refrigerator temperatures and air quality, As a result, they can take action and make more-educated decisions about asset allocation. For example, by identifying exactly where a bed is located in a hospital, they can better divide the hospital space based on actual use.
Scaling Quickly to Support Business Growth
The solution has now been implemented in 10 hospitals, and the company plans to expand in coming months.
Focusing on improved functionality, efficiencies, and scale
- Running our business on AWS has allowed us to bring a non-disruptive solution to market that is up to 75 percent more affordable than other tracking solutions.
- Because of the AWS architecture design, the SHP solution automatically scales based on demand.
- This approach has allowed us to focus on the solution's functionality, and not being bogged down with the backend management.
- Hospitals using the SHP solution improves nurse scheduling efficiencies by leveraging the comprehensive analysis provided by SHP.
- As a startup, we were able to quickly launch our business and add functionality that larger companies could not provide.
Technology Stack
Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
AWS IoT
There are billions of devices in homes, factories, oil wells, hospitals, cars, and thousands of other places. With the proliferation of devices, you increasingly need solutions to connect them, and collect, store, and analyze device data.
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume.
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Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.
Key features
- NO SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE TO MAINTAIN
- EASY TO USE MANAGEMENT VIA APP OR WEB BROWSER
- SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE LICENSING MODEL BASED ON ASSET COUNT
- ONGOING SYSTEM & SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE INCLUDED IN SUBSCRIPTION
- LOW COST OF OWNERSHIP / QUICK ACTIVATION CYCLE
- MODULAR
- OPEN STANDARD
- MACHINE LEARNING
- INTUITIVE NATIVE APP (IOS & ANDROID)
- LONG BATTERY LIFE (5 Years)
- BLUETOOTH
- API INTEGRATION SUPPORT
- STERILIZABLE
- SECURE - END TO END ENCRYPTION
Where are your assets?
1) Can you locate, monitor, and track your assets from anywhere?
2) Does your staff get frustrated trying to find or locate available assets?
3) Did your organization purchase additional assets as a counter measure due to your inability to locate them?
4) Can you track where your assets are and where they've been?
5) Can your organization afford to spend less than 7 cents per day to manage each asset?