Forget the cleaning trolley of yesterday, overloaded with paper files and tracking sheets everywhere! Today, hospital hygiene is being reinvented through technology. The connected cleaning trolley transforms the work of your hospital service agents with smart equipment: tablets, sensors, traceability tracking… Far more than a simple trolley, it provides real-time tracking of interventions, optimizes the use of consumables, and makes the daily tasks of your cleaning staff easier. In short, in the digital age, connectivity has become essential. Discover in this article the key accessories for a high-performance connected cleaning trolley!
Why choose a connected cleaning trolley?
Opting for a connected cleaning trolley means choosing a tool specifically designed to streamline the cleaning and disinfection of sensitive areas or environments. Thanks to these technological accessories, it simplifies protocol tracking for agents and secures areas where maintaining a high level of hygiene is essential to prevent infections.
In fact, the connected cleaning trolley is equipped with real-time task tracking technologies. What cleaning actions have been completed? Which patient rooms have been sanitized? With its intelligent features, the connected trolley provides you with a 360° view of all activities in the field.
Moreover, a connected cleaning trolley optimizes resource usage and reduces waste of consumables or cleaning products. By enhancing the daily tasks of hospital cleaning staff, it not only makes their work more efficient but also ensures a safe and clean environment for patients, staff, and visitors.
How to choose the right connected cleaning trolley?
Unlike the basic manual trolley, the connected cleaning trolley integrates digital devices, from simple to advanced. Whether in the hospital, medical-social, or pharmaceutical sectors, traceability has become a major strategic concern. Implementing mobile technologies on cleaning trolleys addresses these challenges in part.
A connected cleaning trolley must now geolocate each intervention, precisely timestamp cleanings, and meticulously detail treated areas. This meticulous tracking ensures full compliance with the most demanding protocols. A high-performance connected trolley should also drastically simplify team workflows, thanks to an intuitive interface, rapid setup, instant connection to information systems, and optimized battery life.
To select the ideal connected cleaning trolley, it’s essential to consider several criteria: trolley size, ergonomics, storage capacity, security, durability… Additionally, a wide range of accessories can be added to further optimize its use.
1- Capacity sensors
Capacity sensors are integrated devices in the connected cleaning cart that measure in real-time the levels of cleaning solutions, disinfectant products, buckets, and trash bins. They indicate to the cleaning staff the remaining quantity of each product and provide real-time alerts on potential shortages. This continuous monitoring ensures intervention continuity under all circumstances. If a disinfectant product is about to run out, the sensors turn red, signaling the staff to adjust their route to the restocking area, preventing any activity interruption.
Advantages:
- Consumables management: Sensors alert the teams before products are depleted, ensuring continuous cleaning operations.
Waste management: Sensors alert the teams when trash bins are full, preventing accidents with an overloaded cart.
Time savings: Cleaning staff no longer need to manually check capacity levels, allowing them to focus on other tasks.
Waste reduction: By providing accurate data on the amount of product used, sensors help prevent overuse and minimize waste. Supervisors can plan the necessary product quantities in advance, tailored to each route or service type.
2- An integrated connected tablet
The ultimate operational tool for cleaning carts is the connected tablet! This integrated mobile digital device allows hospital service agents to manage and track their interventions in real time. With just a click and a glance, they have access to protocols and a list of tasks to be completed by site of intervention or maintenance. In case of unforeseen events or changes in scheduling, all data is updated instantly. Thanks to this tool, emergency interventions are handled responsively, and the workload is perfectly distributed. A room has just become available? The nearest hospital service agents receives a notification on their secured tablet in their cleaning cart, and the intervention can begin in just a few minutes.
Advantages:
- Real-time monitoring: The tablet displays ongoing tasks and priorities, allowing hospital service agents to optimize their route and manage emergencies instantly.
- Access to cleaning protocols and regulatory documentation: hospital service agents can directly consult disinfection protocols, ensuring compliance with cleaning standards.
- Traceability of cleaning interventions: The tablet keeps a record of completed tasks and products used, providing precise traceability and facilitating quality audits.
3- A tablet holder
The tablet holder is an accessory designed to securely attach the tablet directly to the cleaning cart. This device protects the secured tablet from external damage and provides hospital service agents with access to operational information even in humid or hostile environmental conditions. The holder allows them to obtain information at a glance while keeping their hands free to perform their tasks.
Additionally, it offers a long-lasting battery function with its integrated battery secured with a lock.
Advantages :
- Optimized Accessibility: By positioning the tablet at eye level, the holder allows hospital agents to consult and update their tasks in real-time.
- Stability and Security: The holder ensures stable attachment of the tablet, protecting the device from falls and potential damage.
- Improved Ergonomics: By freeing their hands, the holder simplifies work and enables hospital agents to carry out interventions optimally.
4- An automatic disinfectant dispenser
The automatic disinfectant or hydroalcoholic gel dispenser is a device integrated into the cleaning cart that automatically dispenses the precise amount of disinfectant needed for each intervention. This system reduces waste of consumables and ensures optimal use of products while complying with current cleaning protocols. The quantity can be configured according to rounds or the specialties of mobile teams.
Advantages :
- Precision: By providing the exact amount of disinfectant, the dispenser reduces the risk of overdosing or underdosing, thereby ensuring effective disinfection.
- Waste Reduction: By avoiding excess product, it helps minimize waste, which is both economical and environmentally friendly.
- Compliance with Standards: The uniform application of disinfectant ensures adherence to hygiene standards, which are essential in hospital or medical settings.
- Ease of Use: ASH staff no longer need to manually measure or pour products, simplifying the process and allowing them to focus on other tasks.
5- An electronic locking system
The electronic locking system is a security device that restricts access to the chemicals and wipes stored in the connected cleaning trolley. With intelligent locking, only authorized hospital service agents can open the trolley, ensuring the protection of sensitive equipment. Unlocking can be done using NFC technology, badges, or personal codes.
Advantages :
- Enhanced security: By restricting access to potentially hazardous products, the system reduces the risks of incidents, workplace accidents, and non-compliant use.
- Access control: Only authorized personnel can access the contents.
- Loss prevention: By limiting access, this device also allows for better control of the inventory of consumables and helps avoid waste.
6- A cleaning intervention traceability system
Finally, to manage the data collected by your connected cleaning trolley, an intervention management system is essential. This type of software or digital platform records every service provided, along with the areas treated and the products used for these tasks. This system centralizes all events in your operation into a single interface and ensures continuous monitoring of operations. It allows you to verify your compliance in real time, analyze your KPIs, and adjust your processes as needed.
This type of platform, such as MoveWORK Flow, digitizes your cleaning protocols by hospital service, building, or team. It tracks in real time the entry and exit flows of patient rooms in your healthcare facility, records all actions taken, and continuously monitors compliance with health standards.
Advantages:
- Precise operation tracking: By recording each visit, the traceability system provides a complete overview of cleaned areas and those still needing attention.
- Digitization of protocols: You can provide all the necessary documentation to your teams by profile: agents, supervisors, healthcare managers, caregivers, etc.
- Compliance with hygiene standards: The platform ensures that the cleaning staff rigorously adheres to maintenance protocols, which are essential in the hospital environment. In case of anomalies, it can automate corrective action plans.
- Increased responsiveness: With a complete history of interventions, healthcare executives can quickly identify adjustment needs and respond to unforeseen events to ensure continuous hygiene.
