Skytron: LENS Real-Time Location System

Skytron is an integrator of medical devices serving hospitals across the globe. One of their products is LENS, a Real-Time Location System (RTLS) that assists hospital staff in locating medical equipment such as EKG machines quickly and efficiently.

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Special wireless tags are attached to equipment, staff, and patients. As these tags move around the hospital, their location is tracked in real-time, and sent to the on-premise LENS software. LENS’ architecture supports a variety of hardware vendors.

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Hospital staff can use LENS interface to search for equipment, filtering by type and proximity. LENS can also track maintenance information, enabling staff to find equipment that needs updates and repairs of regularly scheduled maintenance.

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Staff can also sign up to receive real-time notifications. A common use of this is to identify equipment that was physically removed from the building.

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In addition to real-time tasks, LENS includes a number of analytics tools designed to assist hospital administrators to find trends in equipment usage, helping them find and maximize underutilized equipment and build purchase plans with confidence.

Business Challenge:

The previous version of LENS was over 10 years old and was struggling to keep up with growing workloads and advancements in the RTLS hardware.

Approach:

Skytron turned to Mutually Human to re-architect the LENS system from the ground up. Using the Akka framework, SpinDance made the system more scalable and reliable, while also improving the user interface to make it easier and less error prone. The analytics engine for LENS was also rebuilt from the ground up using modern analytics tools from Amazon Web Services.

Results:

In addition to real-time tasks, LENS includes a number of analytics tools designed to assist hospital administrators to find trends in equipment usage, helping them find and maximize underutilized equipment and build purchase plans with confidence.

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