RFID inventory & asset tracking
Everything you own, counted continuously.
CLIB tags linen, textiles, equipment and high-value stock with UHF RFID and reads them automatically at doors, cabinets, laundry points and loading bays. Inventory stops being an annual event that everybody dreads and becomes a number that is always there.
The problem
Hospitals lose things at industrial scale, quietly.
Linen walks out in bags and never comes back. Pumps live in the wrong ward for three weeks. Wheelchairs are bought again because nobody could find the ones already owned. None of it appears as a line item called “loss” — it appears as replacement purchasing, and it repeats every year.
The usual method
Manual counts, spreadsheets, an annual stock-take and trust in the laundry's numbers
The CLIB method
Every tagged item read automatically, every time it passes a portal
What it tracks
Four categories, one tag technology.
Linen and textiles
Sheets, gowns, scrubs, blankets, curtains, mops. Laundry-safe tags survive industrial washing, drying and pressing cycles, so the item is counted for its whole life.
Mobile equipment
Infusion pumps, monitors, wheelchairs, beds, ultrasound carts. The things that move between wards and are never where the register says they are.
High-value consumables
Implants, surgical trays, prostheses and expensive single-use stock, with expiry and lot visibility in the same view.
Returnable containers
Cages, trolleys, bins and transport containers that circulate between the hospital, the laundry and external suppliers.
The hardware
The part other vendors ask you to buy.
All of it is installed, owned, maintained and replaced by us.
Door and corridor portals
Overhead UHF readers at the points where things enter and leave. Everything passing through is read, with direction, without anyone stopping.
Smart cabinets and shelves
Enclosed readers for high-value stock. Take an item out and the count updates, the cost centre is attributed and the reorder trigger fires.
Laundry and bulk read points
Tunnel and cage readers that count a full trolley in a single pass, so what left and what came back can finally be reconciled.
Handheld readers
For the last ten metres. Point the reader down a corridor and it tells you the missing pump is in the third bay on the left.
Workflows
What changes on the ward.
The linen loop closes
Out to the wards, out to the laundry, back through the door — every leg counted. Losses show up in the week they happen instead of at the annual reconciliation.
Laundry invoices get checked
Your count of what left against their count of what was processed, item by item, not by weight and not on faith.
Par levels run themselves
Set a minimum for a ward or a cabinet. CLIB watches the real count and raises the replenishment task before somebody has to go looking.
Nobody hunts for equipment
Last-seen location for every tagged asset, plus a handheld for the final search. Nursing time goes back to nursing.
Reporting
The numbers you can take to finance.
- Loss and shrinkage by item class, ward and month
- Linen in circulation versus linen owned
- Laundry reconciliation: sent, processed, returned, missing
- Equipment utilisation — what is in use versus what is idle
- Replenishment history and stock-out incidents
- Cost-centre attribution for high-value item consumption
Frequently asked
CLIB, in plain terms.
Do the tags survive the laundry?
Yes. Linen tags are industrial UHF transponders rated for hundreds of wash, dry and press cycles. We select the tag type per textile during the assessment and replace failures as part of the service.
Does this track staff or patients?
No. CLIB tags objects. There is no staff badge tracking and no patient tracking in the product.
Do we have to tag everything at once?
No, and you shouldn't. Most sites start with one category — usually linen or a single equipment class — prove the number, and expand from there.
What about existing barcodes?
They keep working. CLIB maps to your existing asset registry and item codes rather than replacing them, and can run alongside barcode processes during transition.
Does RFID interfere with medical equipment?
Reader placement is part of the site assessment and we design installations to keep emissions away from sensitive areas, following the manufacturer guidance for the equipment in each zone.
Who owns the tags and readers?
We do. Tags, portals, cabinets, handhelds, spares and replacements are included in the monthly service fee.
Start with the category that bleeds most.
Tell us what you replace most often and roughly how many beds you run. We'll size a first deployment and tell you what it costs per month.
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