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High-Precision RTLS People, Staff & Patient Tracking

Know where people are indoors when it matters. CoreRTLS delivers real-time Bluetooth® AoA tracking for staff, patients, workers, visitors, and contractors.

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Healthcare worker wearing a CoreRTLS location tag with visible X, Y and Z position coordinates.

Staff & Patient Visibility

Locate people in real time.

Worker Safety

Support duress, lone-worker, and mustering.

Movement Analytics

Analyze routes, dwell time, and occupancy.

API Integration

Connect through MQTT and REST API.

OVERVIEW

What Is RTLS People Tracking?

RTLS people tracking provides continuous indoor visibility of staff, patients, workers, visitors, and contractors using wearable location Tags and indoor positioning infrastructure.

It supports staff safety, patient flow, lone-worker protection, emergency mustering, movement analytics, and workflow automation at the room, zone, sub-meter, or 3D coordinate level selected for the deployment.

OPERATIONAL VISIBILITY

People-Tracking Challenges CoreRTLS Helps Address

Staff Location

Locate nurses, clinicians, technicians, operators, and support personnel faster when coordination or response matters.

Patient Visibility

See whether tagged patients are in the expected room, corridor, care area, or department.

Worker Safety

Support location-aware staff assistance, lone-worker visibility, and configurable duress workflows.

Emergency Mustering

Use live location and zone information to support evacuation checks and mustering dashboards.

Visitor and Contractor Visibility

Track temporary personnel in controlled areas while applying appropriate privacy and access rules.

Movement and Response Analytics

Analyze routes, dwell time, occupancy, patient flow, utilization, bottlenecks, and response patterns.

WHY COREHW

Why CoreHW for High-Precision Indoor People Tracking

Bluetooth® AoA Precision

CoreRTLS uses Bluetooth® Angle of Arrival and optimized positioning algorithms to calculate precise real-time 3D locations from wearable tags.

Flexible Accuracy

CoreRTLS supports positioning down to ±10 cm in suitable deployments, while room-, corridor-, zone-, or sub-meter accuracy can be selected when the application does not require centimeter-level precision.

Wearable Tags for People

CHW-TAG4001 Wrist Tags and CHW-TAG4002 Lanyard Tags support personnel and patient tracking with IP67 protection, remote configuration, OTA updates, sensors, and programmable button input.

Built for Solution Providers

CoreHW provides Tags, Locators, positioning software, WebUI, MQTT, REST APIs, evaluation kits, training, consulting, and support while partners build the vertical application and customer workflows.

HOW IT WORKS

How CoreHW People and Staff Tracking Works

CoreHW CoreRTLS combines wrist-worn or lanyard tags, locators, positioning software and APIs to provide real-time indoor location data for people and staff. Applications can use this data for live location, movement history, safety alerts, mustering and workflow coordination.

APPLICATIONS

People and Staff Tracking Use Cases

Hospital staff location and safety tracking

Healthcare Staff Tracking

Locate nurses, clinicians, porters, technicians, and support staff to improve response, coordination, and workflow visibility.

Patient flow visibility across hospital care pathways

Patient Tracking

Track patients across rooms, corridors, waiting areas, treatment areas, and care units. Support workflows where it matters to know whether a patient is in the expected location.

Vulnerable patient tracking and safety zones

Memory-Care and Wandering-Risk Support

Help care teams locate patients who may move into the wrong corridor, room, ward, or restricted area within the facility.

Worker safety and zone awareness with wearable RTLS tags

Workplace Duress RTLS

The programmable tag button can support location-aware assistance or duress workflows when configured in firmware, software, and the customer application.

Worker safety and zone awareness with wearable RTLS tags

Lone-Worker Safety

Support visibility for workers operating alone in warehouses, laboratories, plants, maintenance areas, and restricted zones.

Emergency mustering and evacuation tracking using CoreRTLS people location data.

Emergency Mustering and Evacuation Tracking

Use real-time location and zone data to support mustering RTLS, evacuation checks, and emergency-response dashboards.

Nurse call, EHR, and workflow integrations with healthcare RTLS

Visitor and Contractor Tracking

Track temporary personnel, contractors, or guests in controlled areas while enforcing privacy, purpose limitation, and access rules.

Movement analytics for indoor people tracking showing routes, dwell time, and occupancy.

Movement Analytics

Analyze routes, dwell time, zone occupancy, bottlenecks, patient flow, staff utilization, and response patterns.

POSITIONING PERFORMANCE

Accuracy, Latency, and Coverage

CoreRTLS can deliver 3D positioning down to ±10 cm in suitable environments. Actual performance depends on locator placement, tag orientation, line of sight, room layout, ceiling height, multipath, people density, update rate, and system configuration.

Do we need exact coordinates, room-level visibility, or zone-level awareness?

For staff RTLS and patient tracking, the best deployment is not always the highest-density deployment. A hospital room, corridor, production cell, or mustering zone may require different accuracy. Start with the business question and design the deployment around the answer.

Evaluation Considerations

  • Accuracy and confidence by room, corridor, and zone
  • Latency and update rate
  • Locator count and placement
  • Battery behavior
  • Privacy requirements
  • API and workflow integration
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TECHNOLOGY COMPARISON

Indoor People Tracking Technologies Compared

Indoor people tracking technology comparison across best fit and considerations
TechnologyBest FitCONSIDERATIONS
Barcode / QR CodeManual check-in/check-outNo continuous location
Passive RFIDGates, portals, and access eventsNot coordinate-based real-time tracking
Bluetooth® RSSI TrackingZone-level presence and proximitySignal-strength-based with limited precision
Bluetooth® AoA RTLSReal-time, high-precision indoor people trackingLeverages the broad Bluetooth® ecosystem, typically enabling lower deployment costs and TCO than UWB.
UWB RTLSHigh-precision projects where UWB fitsHigher deployment cost; dedicated UWB infrastructure, tags, and ecosystem

PRIVACY AND GOVERNANCE

Design People Tracking Around Clear Operational Purpose

People tracking should be deployed for a defined operational, safety, or care purpose with appropriate access controls and governance. Before rollout, define who can access location data, how long it is retained, which workflows require precise location, and how employees, patients, visitors, or contractors are informed where applicable.

The final solution should also address cybersecurity, role-based access, data retention, system ownership, and any applicable workplace, healthcare, or privacy requirements. CoreRTLS provides the positioning foundation; the customer and solution provider define the application-specific policies and workflows around the location data.

Governance Considerations

  • Purpose and permitted use
  • Role-based access control
  • Data retention policy
  • Employee, patient, or visitor communication
  • Cybersecurity and system architecture
  • Governance and compliance requirements

EVALUATION KIT

Start with a CoreRTLS Pilot

CoreRTLS-EVK4 helps you prove RTLS people tracking in your own environment before production deployment. Use it to test accuracy, coverage, latency, locator placement, WebUI visualization, MQTT data collection, REST API integration, and real workflow conditions.

  • Validate accuracy, coverage, and latency
  • Test room-, corridor-, and zone-level performance
  • Confirm locator placement and update rate
  • Evaluate Wrist Tag and Lanyard Tag behavior
  • Connect MQTT or REST API data to the target application
  • Validate privacy, safety, and workflow requirements before rollout
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CoreRTLS indoor positioning dashboard shown with wearable tags and a CoreRTLS Locator for evaluating real-time people tracking.

ARCHITECTURE

Integration Architecture

CoreRTLS integrates wearable tags, indoor positioning infrastructure, software, and APIs into a complete people-tracking platform that solution providers and system integrators can build on.

1

Device Layer

CoreRTLS Wrist Tags, Lanyard Tags, and CoreRTLS Locators provide the wearable and positioning hardware.

2

Positioning Layer

CoreRTLS Software calculates real-time positions and provides system management, WebUI, and device lifecycle tools.

3

API Layer

MQTT streams real-time location data, while the REST API connects CoreRTLS with customer systems and applications.

4

Partner Layer

Solution providers and system integrators build safety workflows, patient applications, mustering dashboards, alerts, analytics, reports, and customer-facing interfaces.

5

Application Layer

Connect CoreRTLS with healthcare systems, safety applications, facility platforms, dashboards, workforce tools, and custom automation.

FAQ

People Tracking FAQ

RTLS staff tracking is real-time indoor location tracking for staff using wearable tags and locator infrastructure.

START YOUR RTLS PILOT

Evaluate People Tracking in Your Own Facility

Evaluate CoreRTLS with your real rooms, corridors, workflows, wearable tags, and integrations before moving to production deployment.

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