Wi-SUN Lights Up Smart Healthcare: The End of the "Searching for Equipment" Era

Hsinchu, Taiwan – December 8, 2025 – In a busy hospital environment, time is often more scarce than medical equipment.

Many nurses share the same experience: when they receive an order to set up additional monitoring devices for a patient, they may spend 10 to 30 minutes walking back and forth between wards just to locate a single vital signs monitor.

Shift handovers pose an even bigger challenge. Nurses must check every ward bed by bed, confirming whether each device is in place. If something is missing, they must further review the equipment list and verify whether the item was borrowed by another department. These time-consuming tasks not only drain manpower but may also delay patient care—equipment exists, yet cannot be found when it is needed the most.

Many nurses share the same experience: when they receive an order to set up additional monitoring devices for a patient, they may spend 10 to 30 minutes walking back and forth between wards just to locate a single vital signs monitor.

Smart Healthcare Solution: Wi-SUN + Bluetooth Location Tracking System
To address this long-standing clinical pain point, SINBON Electronics (SINBON) introduced the Wi-SUN + Bluetooth Medical Equipment Location Tracking System. This system perfectly integrates Wi-SUN's long-range and self-forming mesh networking advantages with the low-power consumption and real-time location capabilities of Bluetooth tags , fundamentally changing the paradigm of equipment management.

Now, nurses no longer need to search across multiple wards. By simply entering the name of the device on the computer interface, the system displays the precise location and current usage status of the vital signs monitor in real time. The system significantly reduces the time spent looking for instruments, effectively enhancing the efficiency of clinical care.

Proof of Benefits: The Transformation at Changhua Christian Hospital

The implementation of this system has yielded immediate and remarkable results in practice. At the campus of Changhua Christian Hospital that first adopted the system:

• Search Efficiency Leap: Nursing staff only need 30 seconds to find the required vital signs monitor, achieving an efficiency increase of up to 90%.
• Significant Reduction in Loss Rate: The instrument loss rate was successfully reduced by 70%.
• Streamlined Inventory Manpower: The end-of-year inventory task, which previously required manual, item-by-item logging and verification , saw a reduction in human resource input by 80% through the system's automated inventory.
• Optimized Resource Management: Furthermore, all equipment data is automatically uploaded to the cloud to generate visual statistical reports , helping the hospital understand the overall usage rate, idle rate, and maintenance rate , making instrument scheduling more accurate and reducing over-procurement and waste.

System Architecture and Deployment Overview
Using Changhua Christian Hospital as an example:

1. Bluetooth Tag Deployment


• One Bluetooth tag installed on each vital signs monitor
• 200 devices deployed
2. Wi-SUN + Bluetooth Gateways (Node) in Each Ward


• One node installed per ward
• 180 wards equipped
3. Wi-SUN Gateways (Root)


• 12 root gateways installed across the hospital district
4. Data Transmission Workflow


• Every 5 seconds, each Bluetooth tag sends its location data to the Gateway (node)
• The node forwards the data via Wi-SUN to the Gateway (root)
• The root uploads the information to the cloud via Ethernet
• The platform then aggregates and displays the complete device location and status in real time