• Hospitals across Australia waste valuable time searching for critical medical equipment.
  • Battery-powered tracking systems often fail, creating costly visibility gaps.
  • The MTB11 light-powered Bluetooth tag offers a self-sustaining alternative, no batteries, no downtime.
  • Paired with the OnSight platform, it provides continuous, real-time visibility of assets across entire facilities.
  • The result: higher efficiency, reduced costs, improved compliance, and easy scalability across healthcare networks.
The Challenge: Finding Equipment When It Matters Most

Every hospital and aged care facility knows the struggle, trying to locate essential equipment right when it’s needed. From infusion pumps and wheelchairs to portable monitors and refrigerated medication carts, assets constantly move between wards, departments, and storage areas.

When staff can’t find what they need, patient care slows down. Equipment gets double-booked, new items are ordered unnecessarily, and compliance records become difficult to maintain. Traditional systems like manual checklists or barcode scans are easily outdated, while battery-powered tags demand constant maintenance, often failing at the worst times.

The Innovation: Light-Powered, Maintenance-Free Tracking

The Minew MTB11 light-powered Bluetooth tag changes the game for healthcare asset tracking. Instead of relying on replaceable batteries, each tag converts indoor light, from LEDs or fluorescents, into renewable energy, powering itself indefinitely.

Once attached to equipment or medical carts, these tags continuously transmit their location via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). They work seamlessly across wards, hallways, and storage areas, without the need for manual checks or power management.

When integrated with the OnSight monitoring platform, every tag’s location data is collected and displayed in real time. OnSight’s cloud-based dashboard gives staff a complete view of where assets are, right down to the room or storage area.

Need to locate an available ventilator? Confirm that vaccine fridges stayed within their temperature zone during transport? It’s all visible instantly, no phone calls, no guesswork.

How It Works
  • Light-powered Bluetooth tags (MTB11) transmit continuous location data.
  • Bluetooth gateways placed throughout the hospital capture the signals.
  • OnSight’s cloud platform aggregates and displays everything in real time.

Staff can access information via web or mobile, set alerts for unauthorised movement, and generate compliance reports on demand.

Why It Matters for Australian Healthcare

Forget scheduling replacements, managing stock, or losing visibility when a battery dies. The MTB11’s light-harvesting design runs continuously in any normally lit area, from emergency departments to standard wards.


Real-Time Equipment Visibility

Staff can instantly see where critical equipment is located and whether it’s available for use. This reduces wasted time searching and improves patient turnaround times.


Reduced Costs and Better Utilisation

Operations teams can identify underused assets sitting idle and redistribute them before ordering new ones. This reduces unnecessary capital expenditure and optimises resource allocation.


Compliance & Traceability

For temperature-sensitive assets like blood transport boxes or medication fridges, OnSight provides detailed location and condition history, supporting both internal audits and TGA compliance requirements.


Scalable and Simple

The system grows with your facility. Whether it’s a pilot in one department or a rollout across multiple hospitals in a network, adding new coverage areas only requires additional gateways, no complex wiring or infrastructure changes.

Results That Count

For Australian healthcare leaders, this technology isn’t about novelty, it’s about impact. By eliminating battery maintenance and delivering real-time visibility, hospitals can:

  • Improve asset availability and utilisation rates.

  • Reduce loss or misplacement of mobile equipment.

  • Strengthen compliance documentation.

  • Give nurses and clinicians more time for patient care, not equipment searches.

The MTB11 + OnSight combination offers a practical, scalable, and sustainable path forward for healthcare asset management, perfectly suited to Australia’s diverse healthcare environments, from metropolitan hospitals to regional health networks.

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