Frost & Sullivan Recognizes CenTrak’s RTLS
Frost & Sullivan awarded CenTrak the 2014 North American Product Line Strategy Leadership Award for its Clinical-Grade Visibility Solutions™, a hybrid RTLS platform combining Gen2IR, LF, and active-RFID technologies that deliver highly accurate, battery-operated, and easily integrated real-time location tracking tailored for healthcare facilities, overcoming Wi-Fi-only system limitations by leveraging existing infrastructure to enhance precision, power efficiency, and clinical workflow automation across complex indoor environments globally.
Based on its recent analysis of the real-time location systems (RTLS) market, Frost & Sullivan recognized CenTrak with the 2014 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy Leadership. CenTrak’s Clinical-Grade Visibility Solutions™ are designed to meet the rigorous demands of healthcare facilities by delivering timely and highly accurate location information through an easy-to-install, battery-operated system. The RTLS infrastructure allows for seamless integration with hundreds of healthcare applications. CenTrak’s performance and consistent customer support have made it the RTLS vendor of choice for leading healthcare facilities in North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
A hybrid solution overcomes many of the key constraints of Wi-Fi-only RTLS solutions, such as high power consumption, bandwidth sharing with mission-critical applications, and limited accuracy due to varying signal strengths in different rooms. CenTrak’s technology improves upon current Wi-Fi-only systems by leveraging a hospital’s existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to simplify installation. Upgrading to its Clinical-Grade RTLS™ is seamless, enabling a more precise, high-performance visibility solution only in areas where needed.
CenTrak’s RTLS platform combines both Clinical-Grade Locating™ and Wi-Fi location technologies into a single intelligent system. This flexibility allows for easier deployment and maximizes power efficiency while automating clinical workflow. Its Second-Generation Infrared (Gen2IR™) devices deliver 100% certainty-based accuracy with rapid location updates and can be used in complex indoor environments, covering entire rooms, beds, bays, and hallways. Low Frequency (LF) exciters create choke points and deliver chair- and dispenser-level location accuracy.
CenTrak’s offering is based on a hybrid of Gen2IR, LF, and active-RFID technologies capable of tracking people and assets in real-time. It supports major applications including hand hygiene compliance monitoring, staff locating, high-acuity workflow, patient and staff safety/security, asset management, and temperature and environmental monitoring.
CenTrak’s tags can be worn by patients and staff, attached to equipment, or even surgical trays. The system is supervised at all times, with location and condition data collected via CenTrak middleware, which supports integrated partner applications. Automated reporting and status updates are available to end users, providing a platform for workflow optimization, improved resource utilization, and capacity management.
CenTrak’s technology utilizes predominantly battery-powered infrastructure devices, enabling easy and economical installation that is non-disruptive to patient care. The system features battery life of up to 10 years, ensuring low maintenance and greater portability. CenTrak recently released the industry’s first single-use patient tag with Clinical-Grade Locating capabilities, an innovation expected to accelerate healthcare’s adoption of patient tracking technologies.
CenTrak’s Clinical-Grade RTLS™ does not suffer from traditional RFID challenges, such as RF interference with physical obstacles, infrared and ultrasound line-of-sight limitations, or enterprise-wide wiring requirements. Scalability and ease of configuration (over the air) make the solution reliable, future-proofed, affordable, and suitable to support many clinical use cases.
About the Award
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has developed a comprehensive product line that caters to the breadth of the market it serves. The award recognizes the extent to which the product line meets customer demands, the overall impact it has in terms of customer value, as well as increased market share.
Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for outstanding achievement in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research.
About CenTrak
CenTrak is a provider of precise, versatile, and cost-effective location solutions for healthcare. Its Clinical-Grade Visibility™ platform delivers accuracy, speed, performance, and power-efficiency. CenTrak’s Gen2IR™ technology delivers certainty-based location data, a requirement for workflow and other key healthcare management applications. CenTrak is deployed at hundreds of healthcare facilities in the US, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Clinical-Grade Locating™, Clinical-Grade RTLS™, and CenTrak® are registered trademarks of CenTrak Inc.
About Frost & Sullivan
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