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Medxcel - Ensuring Patient Safety and Uptime with Advanced IIoT Monitoring

Client Industry

Healthcare Facilities Management

Truway Solution

Advanced LoRaWAN Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance System integrated with AWS

Key Result

Real-Time Predictive Maintenance, Enhanced Regulatory Compliance, and Improved Patient Safety.

1. The Challenge
(The Problem Statement)

Context: Medxcel manages critical infrastructure for large-scale healthcare facilities, where operational failures carry significant risk to patient safety, equipment longevity, and regulatory compliance. The challenge was transitioning from reactive maintenance and manual checks to a scalable, real-time monitoring solution for thousands of critical assets.

 

  • Risk to Patient Care: Failure to maintain optimal air quality, temperature, or pressure in critical medical spaces (like operating rooms) poses direct health and compliance risks.

 

  • Operational Downtime: Central plant systems (boilers, chillers, motors) lack real-time oversight, making unexpected equipment failure a constant threat to facility uptime and leading to costly emergency repairs.

 

  • Inefficient Checks: Relying on manual inspections for maintenance and filter replacement on numerous Air Handling Units (AHUs) is inefficient and prone to human error.

2. The Truway Solution (What We Did)

Approach: Truway deployed an expansion of Medxcel’s existing LoRaWAN solution, featuring an extensive network of low-power sensors integrated into a AWS cloud platform to enable predictive insights across five critical areas.

LoRaWAN Network & Gateway Installation

  • Installed 2 MultiTech Conduit LoRaWAN Gateways to establish a secure, long-range, low-power network across the critical facility areas.

Mass Sensor Deployment (70 Sensors)

  • Plant Performance Monitoring: Deployed sensors to monitor pressure and temperature on boiler and chiller systems.
  • AHU & Operating Room Monitoring: Installed temperature, pressure, and differential pressure sensors on Air Handling Units and Operating Room ventilation systems to ensure compliance with strict air quality standards.

Managed IoT Platform & Integration

  • Configured a custom real-time dashboard in AWS IoT Core for data visualization.
  • Developed secure API integrations to connect sensor data with Medxcel’s existing systems for seamless operational use.

3. Results & Impact (The ROI)

By implementing Truway’s advanced LoRaWAN monitoring system, Medxcel achieved superior visibility and control over its critical infrastructure, transforming facility operations.

Benefit Category

Impact Delivered

Predictive Maintenance

Vibration and performance data from plant motors enabled the shift from time-based maintenance to condition-based, allowing staff to prevent costly breakdowns before they occurred.

Enhanced Patient Safety

Continuous, real-time monitoring of air quality, temperature, and pressure in critical spaces guaranteed adherence to strict healthcare environmental standards.

Operational Efficiency

Automated alerts and centralized dashboards eliminated manual performance checks and ensured filters were replaced based on utilization data, optimizing AHU lifespan and reducing maintenance costs.

Future Scalability

The secure, AWSintegrated LoRaWAN architecture was explicitly designed for easy, cost-effective expansion to additional Medxcel locations and future use cases (e.g., asset tracking, water monitoring).

Conclusion: The expansion of the LoRaWAN monitoring solution delivered real-time, actionable insights that directly enhanced Medxcel’s ability to maintain high standards of patient safety and maximize operational uptime across their critical facilities.

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