Multi-Mode Technology: Gen2IR and Wi-Fi RTLS for Healthcare
CenTrak has enhanced its healthcare RTLS offerings by integrating its highly accurate Gen2IR™ technology with existing Wi-Fi infrastructure, enabling healthcare organizations to achieve room- and bed-level location accuracy while leveraging current 802.11 investments, providing flexible, scalable, and precise asset and workflow management solutions that have been successfully deployed in major US hospitals.
CenTrak has expanded its product portfolio by combining its patented, highly accurate Gen2IR™ RTLS technology with Wi-Fi location infrastructure. This advancement allows healthcare organizations to leverage existing 802.11 investments while achieving room and bed-level accuracy, a standard associated with CenTrak. The technology has already been successfully deployed in major US hospitals, and the addition of Wi-Fi capabilities to CenTrak’s RTLS infrastructure is expected to drive further implementations.
Early adopters of healthcare RTLS often faced a choice between simple, less accurate RF-only technologies with limited ROI, or investing in high accuracy, high performance systems that unlock the full value of enterprise asset management and clinical workflow. CenTrak’s Wi-Fi enabled Gen2IR tags remove the need for such compromises. Healthcare organizations can now plan RTLS initiatives based on current requirements and budget, choosing which facility areas require basic Wi-Fi locating and which need high accuracy and performance with Gen2IR technology. This flexibility provides a comprehensive, future-proof infrastructure that can be expanded to address more complex use cases as needed.
CenTrak’s battery-operated Gen2IR Monitors and Virtual Walls are easily installed wherever accurate, fast, and frequent location data is needed, including rooms, hallways, and bays. Gen2IR, like light, does not pass through walls, but it avoids the line-of-sight limitations of legacy infrared and ultrasound systems. This is particularly beneficial in compact areas such as emergency departments and post-anesthesia care units, as well as open areas where beds are separated by curtains or nothing at all. As a result, when a tag reads a room or bay number, there are no errors—delivering certainty-based RTLS, which is essential for healthcare automation and workflow applications.
The Gen2IR/Wi-Fi platform enables CenTrak’s solution providers to receive location data from Wi-Fi tags and Wi-Fi clients, including computers on wheels and VOIP devices. This integration maintains the same Gen2IR performance that partners and customers rely on for high-resolution use cases such as hand hygiene compliance, high acuity workflow, and nurse call integration.
Dr. Ari Naim, President and CEO of CenTrak, stated: “We are proud to offer healthcare a smarter, future-proof RTLS solution. Our partners’ valuable and often groundbreaking RTLS-based solutions can now be more easily extended across an organization’s WiFi network. Whether the location infrastructure is Wi-Fi-based or not, we continue to deliver the world’s most accurate, scalable, highest performing RTLS.”
CenTrak is a leading provider of precise, versatile, and cost-effective location solutions for healthcare. Its Clinical-Grade Visibility™ platform delivers unmatched accuracy, speed, performance, and power-efficiency, making it a smart technology investment. CenTrak’s Gen2IR™ technology provides certainty-based location data, essential for workflow and other key healthcare management applications. CenTrak is deployed at hundreds of healthcare facilities worldwide.
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