Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and badges have several important roles in hospital safety and efficiency. In patient tracking, they are used to monitor patient location, enhancing patient safety and improving operational efficiency by making it easier to find for procedures optimizing the use of hospital spaces.

For staff safety, badges enable healthcare workers to signal for help during medical emergencies and in duress situations, reducing response times – improving patient outcomes and reducing the risk of workplace violence.

Likewise, beacons can track important assets – equipment carts, mobile imaging equipment, pumps, etc. – to the obvious advantage of less shrinkage and reduced search times – allowing more time for your patients. Saving staff time looking for resources delivers also benefits in staff satisfaction and efficiency.

Smart buildings, which integrate Bluetooth beacon technology, will experience a significant advancement in creating more efficient, user-centric environments. Our BLE Bluetooth beacons, which are ultra-low energy devices, facilitate precise real-time indoor positioning, enabling a multitude of applications such as live occupancy data and office asset tracking, space utilization, or even personalized experiences.

Our beacons provide real-time data, optimizing building operations and enhancing energy efficiency. Additionally, they can empower advanced functionalities like automated lighting, HVAC control, and seamless access management, contributing to increased comfort and productivity – while saving company resources.

The integration of our BLE beacons in smart buildings empower insights into more innovative services and analytics.

EM's beacons are based on our in-house ultra-low power Bluetooth® LE SoC and run for up to 10years without a maintenance intervention. Combined with our in-house Energy-harvesting ICs, we can even go battery-free and provide a sustainable high-tech solution empowering your future workspaces and facilities.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution continues to accelerate, with smart factories at the heart of the movement. These factories implement the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), connecting all elements of the factory to the cloud to facilitate real-time asset tracking, precise indoor positioning, tool condition monitoring, and enhanced worker safety.

Find, track, and monitor tools and machines, in order to schedule for a preventive maintenance, ensure completeness of toolsets before you leave the site or reduce searching times so you can focus on what really matters. With precise AoA positioning and RSSI+ algorithms, our beacons allow for precise localization and thus fast identification as well as reduced chance of mixing and wrong picking, so that exactly the right items are on their way. Improved position accuracy also support your worker safety, ensuring they are visible to others, e.g. forklifts, and only in areas where they shall be.

Our beacons can also track units or pallets of raw materials, WIP subassemblies, and finished goods as they leave the factory. Improved material management allows for optimized storage areas, and avoid wasted spaces, and boosts operational efficiency. With integrated accelerometers, sense for activate-on-motion for time-of-use or event detection like shock or drop is feasible and gives deeper insights in your materials and tools.

Residing at the edge of the IoT, beacons are a key element of this technological mosaic mining and providing all the data required for a successful smart factory implementation. Based on our ultra-low power Bluetooth® LE SoC they run for up to 10years without maintenance intervention - making it an easy catch considering the cost-of-ownership.

Smart logistics and supply chain visibility solutions are rapidly evolving and, with their ability to inexpensively track packages and load carriers, BLE beacons are a key element of state-of-the-art solutions making their way from only tracking high-value and sensitive items to a large quantity of our daily shipments. Formats range from hard-shell devices to "smart labels" nowadays. 

Our beacons provide visibility of real-time location (RTLS), while they also can continuously monitor and report conditions, like temperature, light, or humidity. “Where is the crate with the sushi?” is good, but “Where is the crate with the sushi and has it gotten too warm?” is better. Has the medicine been exposed to too much humidity?  Has the pallet been dropped or struck? Beacons can also provide real-time tamper detection to reduce shrinkage. Based on our in-house ultra-low power Bluetooth® LE SoC we can provide highest performance in the smallest size and battery for an ecofriendly solution.

EM also offers multi-mode devices, such as BLE+NFC and BLE+RFID, which create versatile solutions by combining the long-range capabilities of BLE with the proximity and localization of NFC and RFID. These devices ensure seamless tracking across various stages and partners of the supply chain, from warehouses to transportation, ensuring continuity of tracking and optimizing scheduling accuracy.

With all insights given by our BLE Beacons, you can focus on what your business is about: delivering items, on-time, on-spot, in their best condition with less mixing, less KO materials in transits, or even reaching your customers. But, not just happier customers are your benefit, also higher efficiency, and improved data transparency in your business.