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Keep critical environments under control

Ensure safe, compliant, and ready-to-operate clinical environments with continuous monitoring, automated control, and real-time visibility across operating rooms, ICUs, isolation rooms and other critical clinical spaces.

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Critical environments

Challenge

Critical environments, including operating rooms, intensive care units (ICUs), isolation rooms, pharmacies and labs, rely on tightly controlled conditions to protect patients and staff. Even small deviations in airflow, pressure, humidity or temperature can increase the risk of HAIs and SSIs, with up to 25% of HAIs in critical care linked to environmental factors. Yet many facilities still depend on manual monitoring and fragmented control systems.

Solution

When critical spaces operate outside safe conditions, the impact is immediate; delayed procedures, rescheduled cases and costly downtime that strains clinical operations and budgets. Intelligent building automation and critical environment monitoring systems unify pressure control, airflow regulation, temperature management and compliance documentation into a single platform, giving facilities teams real‑time visibility across every critical room. With centralized data, continuous monitoring and automated alerts, teams can detect issues earlier, respond faster and prevent disruptions before they affect schedules or revenue. The result is a consistently safe, compliant and ready‑for‑use critical environment.

Protect high-risk clinical spaces

Prevent infection and contain pathogens by ensuring consistent environmental control through automated, continuous monitoring—keeping critical spaces safe without relying on manual checks.

Maintain stable environmental conditions

Ensure consistent airflow, pressure, humidity and temperature to reduce infection risks and support safe clinical operations.

Demonstrate compliance

Gain centralized visibility and access real-time data to simplify how compliance is tracked and validated for audit-ready reporting.

Reduce manual effort in compliance processes

Eliminate manual monitoring and documentation by automating tracking and record-keeping.

Keep operating rooms always ready

Precondition operating rooms based on schedules and verify conditions in advance to ensure readiness without last-minute checks.

Maximize throughput and avoid downtime

Avoid schedule disruptions, delays and costly downtime, as idle operating rooms cost between €13 and €86 per minute, while keeping staff and resources fully utilized.

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Reliable airflow and pressure control for operating rooms, negative pressure isolation rooms, and other high-risk clinical environments

Ensure stable, compliant conditions by automating airflow, pressure, and ventilation control across critical healthcare spaces.

  • Maintain required differential pressure states with automated room pressurization
  • Dynamically regulate airflow based on real-time environmental conditions
  • Adjust and continuously monitor supply, exhaust, and pressure levels
  • Ensure containment and safe air exchange with integrated fume hood control
  • Provide centralized visibility into room status, alarms, and deviations

Product | Desigo for critical environments

Customer challenge

Fragmented HVAC systems and manual monitoring create instability in airflow and pressure, increasing the risk of compliance failures and incidents exposure. This is where HVAC compliance OR programs typically break down first.

Key benefits

  • Consistent, compliant airflow and pressure control
  • Reduced operational risk and manual workload
  • Improved patient and staff safety

KPIs

  • Airflow and pressure compliance rate
  • Reduction in deviation incidents
  • HVAC operational efficiency

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