Pod: RTLS in Hospitals: Why Infrastructure is the Real Barrier

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Hospitals know the value of real-time location systems—RTLS. They promise safer care, faster workflows, and better use of expensive equipment.

But despite clear benefits, RTLS hasn’t scaled in healthcare the way it has in logistics or manufacturing.

Why? One word: infrastructure.

Hospitals aren’t warehouses. They’re dynamic, delicate, and highly regulated. Installing sensors in an ICU could mean pausing airflow or triggering infection control protocols.

Rewiring for anchors or gateways? That can require months of planning, IT approval, and biomedical reviews.

And the environment itself complicates things—departments shift, devices move, and coverage disappears in basements or lead-lined imaging rooms.

The hidden cost is even higher: running power, avoiding ceiling clutter, meeting cybersecurity requirements, and maintaining calibration.

All this turns a promising tech into a stalled pilot. That’s the reality many hospitals face today.

But what if RTLS didn’t need all that?

What if it worked on the Wi-Fi network hospitals already use?

That’s where the game changes.

With infrastructure-free RTLS, powered by Wi-Fi interferometry, hospitals can achieve sub-meter accuracy—without installing a single beacon.

No drilling. No rewiring. No approvals from five departments.

Just software. And visibility.

Hospitals need real-time insights—but they don’t need complexity.

Let’s make RTLS truly hospital-ready. Check out the full blogpost on our website.