In 2025, real-time location systems (RTLS) continue to gain recognition as a foundational technology for improving safety, compliance, and operational efficiency across industries. Once considered a niche innovation, RTLS has now become a core part of conversations around digital transformation in healthcare, manufacturing, and hospitality.
Organizations are integrating RTLS directly into enterprise systems such as ERP, EHR, MES, CMMS, and command centers. This convergence provides leaders with actionable location data that improves workflows, safeguards people, and optimizes assets.
As RTLS technology becomes more accurate, cost-effective, and easier to manage, it is now viewed as an essential driver of smarter operations. We believe that The 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle reflects this shift, positioning Indoor Location for People Tracking as an Early Mainstream technology.
Indoor Location for People Tracking in The Gartner Hype Cycle
Each year, The Gartner Hype Cycle provides a roadmap of technology maturity and adoption trends. We see that In 2025, Indoor Location for people tracking and asset tracking continues its upward climb on the Slope of Enlightenment, moving steadily toward the Plateau of Productivity, where widespread adoption occurs.
We believe that this year’s report shows Indoor Location for People Tracking expanding beyond pilots and proofs of concept to production-scale deployments, particularly in:
- Healthcare: Enhancing patient safety, protecting staff, and optimizing workflows.
- Industrial environments: Improving worker safety and asset utilization while reducing operational waste.
- Public safety and hospitality: Enabling faster response and compliance with workplace safety mandates.
Gartner defines the Slope of Enlightenment as:
“Focused experimentation and solid hard work by an increasingly diverse range of organizations lead to a true understanding of the innovation’s applicability, risks, and benefits.”
For Indoor Location for People tracking, this means enterprises have moved beyond early hype to fully embrace its business-critical value.
AiRISTA Recognized Across Multiple Gartner Hype Cycles
AiRISTA is once again recognized by Gartner in Indoor Location for People Tracking. By addressing a wide range of use cases across multiple industries, AiRISTA demonstrates how location intelligence can drive safety, compliance, and efficiency.
The Gartner 2025 Hype Cycle demonstrates the growing maturity and adoption of Indoor Location for People Tracking technologies, and AiRISTA is proud to be recognized across multiple industry-focused Hype Cycles. In our opinion, this recognition reflects AiRISTA’s ability to deliver scalable, innovative solutions that address the unique challenges of healthcare, industrial, and hospitality environments.
By combining advanced RTLS hardware with the Sofia® software platform, AiRISTA empowers organizations to unlock real-time insights into the location and status of people, assets, and workflows. These insights not only improve day-to-day operations but also enable AI-driven analytics and long-term digital transformation.
Here’s how we believe AiRISTA’s solutions align with key Gartner Hype Cycle categories:
Indoor Location for People Tracking in Healthcare and Hospitality
Healthcare organizations face rising demands to protect staff, improve patient outcomes, and meet strict regulatory requirements. RTLS is now seen as a foundational tool for addressing these challenges.
Healthcare examples:
- Staff duress systems: Wearable badges provide instant location data during emergencies or workplace violence incidents, enabling faster response and improving staff safety.
- Patient flow optimization: RTLS data helps hospitals streamline admissions, treatment, and discharge processes, reducing bottlenecks and wait times.
- Wander management: Protect vulnerable dementia or Alzheimer’s patients by automatically triggering alerts when patients move toward restricted areas.
- Hand hygiene compliance: Track staff adherence to infection prevention protocols to reduce hospital-acquired infections.
- Temperature monitoring: Ensure vaccines, medications, and blood
products remain within safe temperature ranges for compliance and patient safety.
Hospitality use cases:
- Hotels and resorts deploy RTLS for staff safety and rapid incident response, ensuring compliance with employee protection laws and improving guest service response times.
By providing real-time visibility of people, AiRISTA helps organizations create safer environments and more efficient operations.
Indoor Location for Assets in Healthcare and Industrial Settings
Misplaced or untracked assets cost organizations millions of dollars annually through replacement costs, downtime, and operational inefficiencies. Gartner identifies indoor asset tracking as one of the drivers for Indoor Location for People tracking use cases for both healthcare and industrial enterprises.
Healthcare applications:
- Quickly locate essential medical equipment such as infusion pumps or wheelchairs to support urgent patient care needs.
- Monitor hospital refrigerators to ensure sensitive materials like medications and vaccines are stored properly.
- Eliminate “ghost assets” by accurately tracking inventory across multiple hospital departments or facilities.
Industrial applications:
- Improve productivity by tracking tools, raw materials, and finished goods throughout the production process.
- Enhance inventory accuracy and reduce waste with real-time asset visibility.
- Support workflow automation by verifying that workers and equipment are in the correct locations to perform tasks safely and efficiently.
AiRISTA’s RTLS solutions integrate with existing wireless infrastructure, making deployments cost-effective and scalable for organizations of all sizes.
Wireless Technologies & Bluetooth AoA/AoD
As RTLS deployments grow, cost-effectiveness and precision are critical.
AiRISTA leverages Bluetooth alongside Wi-Fi and other wireless standards to deliver:
- Accurate geofencing for health and safety compliance.
- Theft prevention and loss reduction for valuable assets.
- Improved operational efficiency by tracking people and equipment using infrastructure that organizations may already have in place.
This approach ensures AiRISTA customers gain high-value RTLS capabilities while keeping total cost of ownership low.
Public Safety and Industrial Workforce Protection
In industries where response time can mean the difference between life and death, RTLS plays a vital role. Public safety organizations and industrial enterprises use AiRISTA’s RTLS to:
- Monitor workers in hazardous zones, ensuring compliance with safety regulations.
- Provide real-time situational awareness during emergencies.
- Improve coordination and response during crises in hospitals, factories, and large public spaces.
By integrating with command center systems and emergency protocols, AiRISTA’s RTLS solutions enable faster, data-driven decision-making.
Why The Gartner Recognition Matters to us
To us, the Gartner recognition of AiRISTA across multiple Hype Cycles validates the critical role of RTLS in today’s enterprises. It highlights how AiRISTA’s technology is not only solving current operational challenges but also positioning organizations to thrive in a future driven by AI, IoT, and real-time data ecosystems.
As industries face increasing regulatory pressures, workplace safety concerns, and demand for operational efficiency, RTLS has become a strategic requirement rather than a discretionary investment. We believe that AiRISTA’s inclusion in The Gartner research demonstrates that its solutions are leading the way in scalability, innovation, and proven business value.
Key Takeaway
In our opinion, by delivering solutions across multiple Gartner Hype Cycle categories, AiRISTA reinforces its role as a trusted partner for organizations navigating the complexities of digital transformation. Whether it’s protecting hospital staff, optimizing industrial workflows, or safeguarding hospitality employees, AiRISTA provides the real-time visibility needed to achieve safety, compliance, and operational excellence.
Why RTLS Matters More Than Ever in 2025
RTLS adoption is accelerating due to a combination of regulatory pressures, workforce
safety concerns, and digital transformation initiatives.
Healthcare drivers:
- Protect staff from workplace violence.
- Ensure patient safety and meet compliance mandates.
- Optimize hospital operations for better outcomes and lower costs.
Industrial drivers:
- Reduce injuries in hazardous environments.
- Improve asset tracking and inventory management.
- Enable environmental monitoring and process automation.
Hospitality drivers:
- Safeguard staff and improve incident response times. RTLS also provides the data foundation for AI and IoT ecosystems, enabling predictive analytics and real-time insights that drive smarter decision-making.
The Road Ahead: RTLS on the Path to the Plateau of Productivity
According to us, RTLS is steadily progressing toward the Plateau of Productivity as enterprises expand their deployments and integrate RTLS data into broader systems.
- AI and IoT integration will unlock new predictive capabilities, from automated alerts to advanced analytics.
- Industries will increasingly view RTLS as a strategic requirement rather than an optional tool.
Leading industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, and hospitality will continue to define what connected, intelligent operations look like in practice.
Conclusion
AiRISTA is proud to be recognized by Gartner. Our solutions help hospitals, manufacturers, and hospitality organizations achieve real-time visibility of people and assets, improving outcomes across the board.
Contact us today to learn how AiRISTA can help you leverage RTLS to protect your workforce, optimize operations, and prepare for the future.
Gartner, Hype Cycle for Frontline Worker Technologies, 2025, By Rafael Benitez, 4 August 2025
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