Bambeo is an application focused on real-time monitoring of assets, people, and consumables in hospitals, convention centers, and other large settings, by tracking RFID tags associated with those assets. 

With the support of an RFID reader infrastructure installed in portals and gates in a facility and the RFID labeling of goods, Bambeo relates assets to locations allowing real-time tracking of a facility's relevant resources, easing their location, availability, and security.

Additionally, RFID wristbands or badges assigned to personnel, patients, and visitors enable tracking of people and control of access to restricted areas. With the help of customized rules, Bambeo also allows for real-time tracking of people in emergency cases.

WHY DO I NEED Bambeo?

For instance, hospitals spend a significant part of their budget on medical supplies, especially drugs, equipment, furniture, and consumables. Given its high variability, purchase logistics are complex, but in-hospital logistics are even more complicated due to the urgency of many medical procedures and the difficult task of predicting future needs.

This leads to buying material in excess and being without efficient control within the business facilities, it can be lost, stolen, or simply not be where it is needed when it is needed. Such control of assets, consumables, or even people is impossible if it is not automated by sensors in each zone that identify them and record their movements.

• Exhaustive monitoring of medical and consumable equipment favors internal and external logistical efficiency, leading to a reduction in expenses and waste as well as greater agility in the availability of resources.

• Other procedures such as the use of bar codes depend on explicit actions carried out by personnel, spending personnel time, and also being susceptible to human errors.

Although the investment in the infrastructure is significant, the benefits are important due to lower material losses, a reduction in the purchase of materials, an increase in staff productivity, and an improvement in the quality of the service.

WHAT BENEFITS PROVIDE Bambeo?

• Ability to control the availability and location of mobile assets in real time.

• Control of inventory in real-time by zones, warehouses, locations, floors, and buildings.

• Management of personnel access as well as their location or availability.

• Identification of material consumption in surgical or emergency areas (also applicable to drugs, blood, samples, etc.).

• Monitoring of patients on the premises, and especially in predefined circuits (ambulatory surgery, rehabilitation, test procedures, etc.)

• Notifications or automatic actions linked to rules by location or availability.

KITS

Akalta offers ready-to-install kits with the necessary elements for immediate use

• bambeo basic monitor
  Suitable for managing fixed RFID readers and tags in a small installation (up to 10 readers).
  It consists of an industrial mini PC and the bambeo monitor component.
  Supports readers from Impinj, Zebra, Keonn, and other manufacturers that use the LLRP protocol.

• bambeo monitor
  Similar to the bambeo basic monitor but supports up to 25 RFID readers using an industrial mini PC with greater processing capacity.

• bambeo handheld
  Suitable for field or floor operations such as inventories, maintenance or check-ins, check-outs, physical searches, look-ups, etc.
  It consists of a portable Android terminal with a barcode scanner, an RFID reader, and the bambeo mobile application.
  It connects to the bambeo system in the cloud for all asset management and query operations.