Operating room orchestration
The operating room, finally visible in real time.
CEOL puts a small number of ceiling-mounted cameras and one on-premise edge unit in each theatre. It reads the state of the room, not the people in it, and turns that into a live status board, automatic timestamps and analytics that hold up in a management meeting.
The problem
The most expensive room in the hospital is documented by hand.
Theatre timestamps are typed by people who are busy doing something more important. Times get rounded, entered late, or reconstructed at the end of the day. Every improvement programme built on that data starts with an argument about whether the data is real.
Recorded by hand today
Case start, incision, closure, room exit, cleaning start, ready
Recorded by CEOL
The same events, automatically, to the second
Capabilities
What CEOL does once it's up.
Automatic phase detection
Computer vision on the edge unit classifies room state — empty, setup, patient present, procedure underway, closing, cleaning, ready — with no one pressing a button.
Live theatre board
One screen showing every room, its current phase, how long it has been there and what is scheduled next. Readable from the corridor.
Turnover measurement
Wheels-out to wheels-in, split into cleaning, setup and waiting, so you can see which part of the gap is actually the problem.
Delay and idle alerts
Configurable thresholds push a notification when a room has been idle too long, when cleaning hasn't started, or when a case is running past its planned finish.
Plan versus reality
Scheduled duration against actual duration, by procedure, by surgeon, by room and by day of week. The report that tells you where the schedule is wrong.
Utilisation analytics
Prime-time utilisation, first-case on-time starts, cancellations and unused block time — computed from observed events rather than from what was typed.
How it works
Three components, all of them ours.
Ceiling cameras
Discreet fixed cameras positioned for room coverage rather than surgical field detail. Mounted out of hours, powered over Ethernet, no ceiling rebuild.
The edge unit
A compact on-premise appliance in your rack or theatre suite. It runs the vision models locally and emits events — not video — to the application layer.
The board and the API
Live displays for the theatre suite, dashboards for management, and an event stream your HIS, scheduling system or data warehouse can subscribe to.
Privacy
The first question everyone asks: cameras in an operating room?
It's the right question. Here is how CEOL is built to answer it.
The video stays in the building
Analysis happens on the edge unit on your network. The product does not require frames to be uploaded anywhere to function.
Events leave, images don't
What travels to the dashboard is structured data — room 3 entered cleaning at 14:12 — not a picture of room 3.
No facial recognition
CEOL does not identify individuals. It is not built for it, it is not sold for it, and identity matching is not a feature we offer.
Not a performance-monitoring tool
We recommend deploying CEOL against room and process metrics, and we help you write the staff communication that says so. Camera projects that surprise clinical teams fail.
Retention you control
Where any imagery is retained at all — for model validation, with your written agreement — retention windows, storage location and deletion are configured by you.
Documented for your DPO
We provide the data processing agreement, the data flow diagram and the record of processing your data protection officer will ask for.
Integrations
It has to talk to what you already run.
CEOL is an event source. Most hospitals connect it to scheduling first, then to reporting.
- HL7 v2 and FHIR interfaces to HIS and EMR systems
- Theatre scheduling and block management systems
- REST and webhook event streams for your own tooling
- CSV and scheduled exports to a data warehouse or BI tool
- Single sign-on via SAML or OIDC
- Digital signage and corridor displays
Frequently asked
CEOL, in plain terms.
Do you record surgery?
No. The cameras are positioned and configured for room state — where people and equipment are in the room — not for the surgical field. CEOL is an operations product, not a clinical recording system.
How many cameras per theatre?
Typically one to two, depending on room geometry and sight lines. We confirm the count during the on-site assessment before anything is quoted.
How long does installation take?
For a suite of six to ten theatres, expect the physical install to run over a small number of out-of-hours sessions, followed by a calibration period while the models tune to your rooms.
What happens if the internet goes down?
The edge unit keeps detecting and buffering locally. Local displays keep working. Data syncs when the link returns.
Is it a medical device?
No. CEOL does not inform diagnosis or treatment. It measures operational events in a room and is regulated as an operational IT system, not as a medical device.
Do we have to buy the hardware?
No — that's the point. Cameras, edge units, mounting, replacements and upgrades are included in the monthly fee and remain our property.
Bring us your worst-performing theatre.
Send the room count and your current turnover target. We'll walk you through what CEOL would measure and what it would cost per room per month.
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