IoT Data Platform for Smart Hospitals: Real-Time Insights and Operational Efficiency

• Fragmented Systems and Data Silos: Hospitals use a mix of legacy and specialized systems. This fragmented ecosystem makes it difficult to centralize data, ensure real-time visibility, and coordinate care across departments, resulting in operational inefficiencies and missed opportunities for proactive patient management.

• Inefficient Resource Allocation Due to Disconnected Staffing and Equipment Data: With growing pressure on clinical staff and physical resources, hospitals struggle to match demand with availability in real time. This fragmented ecosystem makes it difficult to centralize data, ensure real-time visibility, and coordinate care across departments.

Modernize and scale a Real-Time Location System (RTLS) platform to improve hospital operations and patient care. The solution integrates device tracking, IoT sensors, geo-location, and shift management into a single, user-centric platform. A key objective was to enable real-time and historical visualization of assets, equipment, staff, and infrastructure usage—helping healthcare providers make faster, smarter decisions.

As part of a broader digital transformation strategy, Team International worked hand-in-hand with the client to embed the solution within their operational workflows, ensuring scalability, security, and ease of adoption.

Team International delivered a fully embedded data platform powered by Power BI and Google Cloud. Our cross-functional team integrated backend engineering, cloud architecture, and advanced analytics to develop a solution that transforms how hospitals manage their operations.

Key components of the solution included:

• REST APIs to extract data from IoT devices and hospital systems

• ETL pipelines built with Python, Pandas, and Numpy to clean, structure, and enrich the data

• Data modeling and storage with Google BigQuery and event handling via Pub/Sub

• Scheduled automation through Cloud Functions to ensure timely data refresh

• Integration with Microsoft Azure App Registration to enable secure access within third-party systems

• Development of dynamic dashboards in Power BI tailored to hospital-specific KPIs and workflows

The platform was designed to support real-time decision-making and embedded directly into the client’s main application, allowing staff to access actionable insights without changing their workflows.