Platform Overview

System Components

BioVigil’s system is built from integrated components that work together to automate hand hygiene monitoring while fitting seamlessly into clinical workflows.

1 Wearable Smart Badge

Each caregiver wears a smart badge that delivers real-time guidance at the point of care. Using proprietary vapor sensing technology, the badge detects alcohol-based sanitizer on the hands, confirming that hand hygiene actually occurred rather than simply recording dispenser use. The badge then provides immediate feedback through visual cues, vibration, and audible alerts so caregivers always know their compliance status.

2 Base Station

The base station serves as the starting and ending point for every shift, where caregivers quickly retrieve and return their assigned badge by scanning their ID. This seamless process ensures each badge is linked to the individual user, enabling accurate, person-level data capture without adding steps to the workflow. At the end of the shift, data is automatically synced to the cloud, making compliance tracking, reporting, and performance insights immediately available.

3 Room Beacons

Beacons installed at patient room entrances and key clinical areas communicate with the badge to identify when a caregiver enters or exits a patient environment. This allows the system to automatically track hand hygiene opportunities tied to patient contact moments, ensuring compliance is measured at the most critical points of care.

4 Sink Beacon

Using Accuwash^TM Technology, the sink beacon captures and confirms soap-and-water handwashing events, ensuring full compliance with infection prevention protocols. Powered by advanced sensing technology, it detects proper handwashing activity and communicates directly with the badge in real time. For high-risk environments, such as C. diff or isolation rooms, the system can require a sink wash instead of sanitizer, guiding caregivers to follow the correct protocol.

5 Cloud-Based Analytics Platform

BioVigil’s analytics platform transforms real-time hand hygiene data into actionable insight across your organization. With intuitive dashboards and customizable reports, leaders can monitor compliance at the individual, unit, and system level, identify risk patterns, and drive targeted improvement. Beyond compliance, the platform enables contact tracing, staff rounding validation, and workflow analytics. This empowers infection prevention and operational teams with the data they need to act quickly, improve outcomes, and sustain performance.

Coaching & Reminders

BioVigil’s advanced badge-based system provides real-time visual, audible, and vibration alerts that prompt hand hygiene actions without interfering with care delivery. Upon entering a patient care area, an infrared curtain from our ceiling beacon triggers the badge’s reminder sequence.

This real-time guidance drives instant behavior correction at the point of care, turning reminders into lasting habits rather than passive notifications. In addition to reminders, BioVigil’s analytics platform allows infection prevention leaders to provide individualized coaching based on real performance data, reinforcing high performers while targeting improvement areas to sustain 97%+ compliance.

Green is clean

After performing hand hygiene, the caregiver simply “pledges” the badge. Using proprietary sensing technology, the system confirms compliance and the badge turns green—indicating hands are clean and patient-ready.

Yellow is a reminder

If hand hygiene is missed, the badge provides a gentle prompt through vibration, sound, and a color change to yellow—alerting the caregiver in real time that action is needed.

Red is stop and wash hands

If no action is taken, the badge escalates to red with continued alerts. This serves as a clear signal to pause and perform hand hygiene, while also reinforcing accountability among peers and providing a visible cue for patients.

Custom Protocols

BioVigil enables room-based customization so facilities can require handwashing with soap and water instead of alcohol-based sanitizer in specific cases, such as patients with C. diff.

The system alerts healthcare workers when a sink wash is required, reinforcing adherence to infection prevention protocols.
In isolation rooms, BioVigil triggers customized alerts for strict infection prevention protocols, including requiring a sink wash rather than sanitizer when appropriate. The platform adapts to standard patient rooms, isolation rooms, and specialized care units without workflow disruption.
AccuWash™ Technology confirms proper soap-and-water handwashing compliance using proximity, heat sensing, and movement detection, providing additional safety beyond sanitizer monitoring.
By capturing whether sanitizer or sink washing was performed, along with entry/exit timing and room location, BioVigil provides infection prevention teams with actionable insight into protocol adherence at the individual and unit levels.

Technological Edge And Why We Are The Best

BioVigil’s system is built around powerful capabilities that elevate hand hygiene from a passive process to an actively verified safety practice.

Together, these capabilities create a transparent, real-time accountability system that improves staff performance, builds patient trust, and strengthens a hospital’s overall infection prevention strategy.

Proprietary alcohol-sensing technology directly detects sanitizer on the caregiver’s hands, confirming a true hand hygiene event rather than relying on dispenser activations as a proxy for compliance. This dramatically improves the accuracy and integrity of compliance data.
The wearable badge delivers immediate feedback through vibratory, visual, and audible cues. This prompts caregivers in real time if a hand hygiene opportunity is missed and enables instant course correction to reinforce lasting behavioral change.
A visible, patient-facing compliance indicator, allowing patients and families to clearly see when proper hand hygiene has been performed.

Ease Of Installation

No IT Infrastructure Required
No servers, no integration headaches. The base station connects via power and ethernet or Wi-Fi for a true plug-and-play setup.
Fast, Non-Invasive Installation
Battery-powered ceiling beacons magnetically attach to standard drop ceilings—no drilling, wiring, or facility modifications needed.
Works With Existing Dispensers
Compatible with your current sanitizer and soap products, eliminating the cost and disruption of replacing equipment.
Minimal Disruption to Operations
Designed to fit seamlessly into existing workflows with no added burden on clinical staff.
White-Glove Deployment Support
BioVigil’s expert team manages the entire installation from start to finish, ensuring a clean, efficient rollout with no mess and minimal demand on IT or facilities teams.

Implementation & Ongoing Support

BioVigil is a hands-on partner committed to your long-term success, from initial rollout through sustained performance.

Strategic Pre-Implementation Planning
We collaborate with key stakeholders upfront to align on goals, workflows, and rollout strategy—ensuring a smooth, efficient deployment from day one.
Onsite Training for Every Team
Our experts provide in-person training across all shifts, equipping staff with the knowledge and confidence to adopt the system quickly and effectively.
At-the-Elbow Support During Go-Live
BioVigil team members round on units during implementation, answering questions, resolving issues in real time, and reinforcing proper use at the point of care.
Dedicated Customer Success Manager
You’ll have a single, trusted point of contact who understands your facility, supports ongoing optimization, and remains actively engaged on-site for training and rounding.
Ongoing Performance Reviews & Reporting Support
From routine data reviews with frontline teams to executive-level presentations, we help translate data into action—driving continuous improvement and sustained results.