‘Partnering’ with Kantonsspital Baden (KSB) in Switzerland, Siemens Smart Infrastructure says it will deploy technologies and digital services from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio there to create ‘one of the country’s smartest’ hospitals.
Described as ‘a demand-driven, customised Internet of Things (IoT) platform with over 7,000 IoT sensors’, the project will – Siemens Smart Infrastructure says – ‘ensure a user-centric patient experience, improved patient care, increased energy efficiency, and optimised operations’.
The technology and infrastructure specialist explained: “An open digital business platform, Siemens Xcelerator enables customers to accelerate their digital transformation easier, faster, and at scale. The smart hospital platform – part of its portfolio – supports the creation of smart hospitals through a collaborative development approach that reduces the complexity of digital transformation. The platform brings together multiple data streams from the new KSB building, which is scheduled to open in early 2025, and its users.”
Siemens is installing a navigation system for a specially developed app. It says this simplifies patients finding treatment rooms and other locations on the sizeable hospital campus – including cafés, and public transport stops – and will reduce waiting times and increase treatment capacity. It is also deploying 2,000 ‘smart tags’ at KSB, which are assigned to the most crucial assets, such as hospital beds, wheelchairs, and other medical equipment, and connected to the Smart Hospital Platform. Global advisory firm Frost & Sullivan’s research suggests that in healthcare facilities without real-time location services (RTLS), staff spend 72 minutes on average per shift searching for equipment. The company says RTLS and a dedicated application ‘ensure transparency, and make it easy for staff to locate these items, while increasing productivity’.
“The healthcare sector presents a number of interesting opportunities for digitalisation,” said Janina Beilner, Senior Vice President, Healthcare, at Siemens Smart Infrastructure. “How can we make best use of technologies to support our customers on their digital transformation journey, to improve hospital processes and optimise clinical workflows? Our approach, developed in close cooperation with customers, uses digital tools and services to build an IoT platform in which solutions to specific challenges can be tailored, added, and scaled as they arise. It is the perfect example of our Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem at work.”
Kantonsspital Baden also has access to Siemens’ building technology portfolio, including the Desigo CC building management system, which includes room automation, fire safety solutions, and automation of primary systems. The use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) allowed the planning process to be managed efficiently.
