Summary
- Healthcare facilities often struggle to locate critical equipment quickly, wasting staff time and delaying care
- Traditional tracking methods and battery-powered tags create visibility gaps and maintenance challenges
- The MTB11 light-powered Bluetooth tag offers a self-sustaining solution, no battery replacements needed
- Integrated with the OnSight platform, it delivers continuous, real-time equipment location across entire facilities
- Improves efficiency, reduces costs, supports compliance, and scales effortlessly across hospital networks
Healthcare Challenge: Knowing Where Critical Equipment Is Located
Healthcare facilities face a persistent operational challenge: knowing where critical equipment is at any given moment. Whether it’s infusion pumps, wheelchairs, portable monitors, or temperature-sensitive medications, the inability to quickly locate assets leads to staff time wasted searching, delayed patient care, and unnecessary capital expenditure on replacement equipment.
Traditional approaches, manual logbooks, periodic audits, and battery-powered tracking tags that fail at critical moments, create gaps in visibility that compromise both efficiency and compliance. For facility managers and operations teams, the question isn’t whether to implement asset tracking, but how to do it reliably without creating another maintenance burden.
A Self-Sustaining Solution: MTB11 and OnSight
A Practical Answer to Healthcare Asset Tracking
The Minew MTB11 ambient light-powered Bluetooth tag represents a practical answer to healthcare asset tracking. Unlike conventional battery-powered tags that require regular replacement cycles, the MTB11 harvests energy from ambient indoor lighting, including standard LED and fluorescent fixtures, to power its Bluetooth Low Energy transmissions continuously. Attached to medical equipment, mobile carts, or temperature-controlled containers, these compact tags broadcast their location data to nearby Bluetooth gateways throughout the facility without intervention.
Integrates Directly With the OnSight Monitoring Platform
This hardware layer integrates directly with the OnSight monitoring platform, which aggregates location data from distributed tags across single sites or multi-facility networks. OnSight provides healthcare operations teams with a real-time interface showing equipment location by ward, room, or storage area. When a nurse needs to locate an available infusion pump or a compliance officer needs to verify that refrigerated medications remained within designated temperature zones during transport, the information is immediately accessible through OnSight’s dashboard, no phone calls, no searching through storage areas, no guesswork.
Operates Through Bluetooth Gateways
The system operates through straightforward infrastructure: Bluetooth gateways installed at strategic points throughout the facility capture signals from MTB11 tags and relay position data to OnSight’s cloud-based platform. Staff access current locations through web browsers or mobile devices, with configurable alerts for unauthorised movement, extended absence from designated areas, or low tag signal strength.
The Elimination of Battery Maintenance
The elimination of battery maintenance represents an immediate operational advantage. Healthcare facilities managing hundreds or thousands of tracked assets no longer need to schedule battery replacement programs, stock replacement cells, or deal with tracking gaps when batteries fail unexpectedly. The MTB11’s light-harvesting capability ensures continuous operation in any normally-lit healthcare environment, from brightly lit emergency departments to standard ward lighting levels.
Real-Time Visibility
Real-time visibility through OnSight transforms equipment utilisation. Operations teams can identify underutilised assets sitting idle in one location while staff in another area requisition additional purchases. This visibility reduces unnecessary capital expenditure and improves resource allocation across departments. For temperature-controlled assets, vaccine refrigerators, blood product carriers, or medication carts, the system provides location history that supports compliance documentation and quality assurance requirements.
Scalability
Scalability matters in healthcare environments that span multiple buildings, campuses, or regional facilities. The MTB11 and OnSight combination scales from pilot deployments tracking high-value equipment in critical care units to enterprise implementations covering thousands of assets across hospital networks. Adding coverage to new areas requires gateway installation rather than complex infrastructure changes, and additional tags deploy in minutes.
Immediately Locate Necessary Equipment
The reduction in time spent searching for equipment delivers measurable value. When clinical staff can immediately locate necessary equipment through OnSight rather than searching multiple storage areas or borrowing from other departments, those minutes accumulate into significant efficiency gains across shifts and departments.
For healthcare facility managers and compliance officers evaluating asset tracking solutions, the MTB11 and OnSight combination addresses core operational requirements: continuous operation without maintenance overhead, accurate real-time location data, scalable deployment architecture, and integration with existing healthcare IT environments. The result is improved equipment availability, reduced loss of mobile assets, better compliance documentation, and staff time redirected from searching to patient care, practical outcomes that directly impact healthcare operations.
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