Live Equipment Map
Norra's live equipment map is a real-time, room-level view of every piece of mobile medical equipment in your building. Proprietary smart tags report location automatically, so staff never scan anything and the map stays accurate on its own.
What you get
- Room-level, real-time location for every tagged asset
- Zero staff scanning — the map stays accurate on its own
- Beds, wheelchairs, oxygen concentrators, BiPAPs, wound vacs, mattresses
- Search the map or text Norra to find any item
- Live in days: smart tags plus plug-in gateways, no wiring
The live equipment map is the foundation of Norra. It is a single, real-time view of every tagged piece of mobile medical equipment in your facility, showing which room each asset is in right now. Beds, wheelchairs, oxygen concentrators, BiPAPs, wound vacs, and air mattresses all appear on the same map, and it updates on its own as equipment moves.
The problem it solves
In most skilled nursing facilities, nobody actually knows where the equipment is. A nurse who needs a low-air-loss mattress walks the floor looking for one, checks two storage rooms, and often gives up and asks for a rental. Owned wheelchairs disappear between floors, laundry, and storage. The result is time lost to searching and money lost to renting or re-buying items the building already owns. The information exists in the building; it is just not visible in one place.
How it works
Proprietary smart tags attach to each piece of equipment and run for years on a single battery. Small gateways plug into ordinary wall outlets and pick up the tags. That is the whole install: no wiring, no ceiling hardware, no construction, and a building goes live in days.
The most important part is what staff have to do to keep it accurate: nothing. The tags report location automatically, so there are no barcodes to swipe and no audits to walk. Any system that depends on busy staff scanning every item on every move sees its data drift within weeks. Norra removes that human step, which is why the map stays true to the floor. You can also search the map for any item, or text Norra a plain-language question like "where are the bariatric wheelchairs?" and get the room back.
Who it is for
The live map is for the people who lose time to missing equipment: nurses and CNAs who search every shift, maintenance directors tracking hundreds of assets, and administrators who want one honest answer to "what do we own and where is it?" It is the layer everything else in Norra runs on, from rental elimination to survey reports.
For the background on how room-level tracking became possible without a hospital-grade install, see room-level equipment tracking without hospital RTLS costs and why zero-scan tracking matters.
Frequently asked questions
How does Norra know where equipment is?+
Proprietary smart tags attach to each piece of equipment and report location automatically through small plug-in gateways. There is no barcode to swipe and no inventory walk. The map updates in real time as equipment moves between rooms, so it reflects where things actually are, not where they were last logged.
Do staff have to scan equipment for the map to stay accurate?+
No. Staff never scan anything. This is the core difference between Norra and barcode inventory apps, which only know where an item was last scanned. Because Norra removes the human step entirely, the map does not decay when a busy floor gets busy.
What equipment can appear on the map?+
Any mobile medical equipment you tag: beds, wheelchairs, oxygen concentrators, BiPAPs, wound vacs, air mattresses, and more. If it moves around the building and you want to find it, it can go on the map.
How precise is the location?+
Room-level, in real time. For skilled nursing, room-level is the precision that matters: you need to know which room the wheelchair is in, not its coordinates within the room. Hospital-grade systems offer finer sub-room precision at far higher cost.
See Norra on your own floor plan
A 20-minute walkthrough with a founder. We will show you live room-level tracking and what your facility could stop spending.
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