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Oxygen, air and vacuum.
Three seconds of failure
can cost a life.

Continuous monitoring of the medical gas network, O₂, compressed air, clinical vacuum, N₂O and CO₂, with AI that predicts pressure drops and leaks before the alarm sounds in the ICU. NBR 12188 and RDC 50 compliance automated.

How it works ↓
24/7
pressure at every point
−82%
alarms without context
< 3s
leak detection
R$ 4.8M
loss avoided/year
MANIFOLD O₂ · SURGICAL CENTER3.86 bar · drop -0.35 bar/h
3.04.05.0NBR LIMIT - 12188 · 4.0 barCRITICAL DROP IN5 min · replace cylinderNOW
Pressure (bar)AI predictionNBR limit
THE PROBLEM

When O₂ pressure drops, there is no time to open a spreadsheet.

The medical gas network is the most critical system in the hospital after power. A failure in the O₂ plant, a leak in a riser, a contaminated air filter, any deviation can bring an entire ICU down in seconds.

01
23min
average to identify a failure
in hospitals without continuous monitoring, between the first symptom at the point of use and the maintenance team locating the problem.
02
R$ 480K
average cost of an event
with patient transfers, reserve activation and mandatory investigation by ANVISA and CREMESP.
03
60+
alarms without context/day
that the maintenance center receives, most are normal fluctuations, but the team loses sensitivity to what matters.

We had a pressure drop in the O₂ plant at 3 a.m. The alarm went off, but no one knew if it was a leak, a sensor failure or abnormal consumption. It took 18 minutes to identify, and four ICU patients needed a reserve cylinder.

Technical Director · Public hospital · 340 beds
HOW IT WORKS

Pressure → prediction → coordinated action, in real time.

IEC 60601-certified transducers at every outlet, plant, manifold and riser. DROME Predict learns the typical consumption of each sector and detects anomalies before the critical deviation.

01

Transducer measures

A 4–20mA pressure sensor (±0.5% FS) reads pressure, flow and differential every 2s at every critical point of the network.

INTERVAL2s
02

Data goes up

Industrial gateway transmits over PoE + redundant 4G. Modbus/BACnet integration with existing plants (Whitemartins, Oxigênio, Air Liquide).

LATENCY< 3s
03

AI contextualizes

Predict compares the current pattern with the typical consumption of that sector, that shift, that ICU occupancy. It filters out 82% of false alarms.

FALSE+−82%
04

Right team, right channel

Maintenance + nursing + pharmacy receive only what they need to act on. Automatic escalation if there is no acknowledgment within 5 min.

ROUTINGby role
WHAT YOU GAIN

Everything maintenance, clinical engineering and the ICU need, integrated.

Failure prediction 45–90 min ahead

Detects drift in regulating valves, saturated filters and slow leaks before the critical pressure drop.

  • Model per plant and riser
  • Learns consumption seasonality
  • AI-suggested diagnosis

Contextual alarms without fatigue

Only generates an event when the deviation is real and actionable. The team trusts the alarm again, without muting it out of exhaustion.

  • Intelligent suppression
  • Grouping by root cause
  • Mandatory justification when silencing

NBR 12188 reports ready

Periodic network verification, tightness tests and preventive maintenance reports, generated automatically.

  • NBR 12188 quarterly
  • RDC 50 per outlet
  • Automatic PM schedule

Certified industrial hardware

IEC 60601-1 transducers, non-invasive installation at existing points. No need to shut down the network to install.

  • ±0.5% FS accuracy
  • Modbus TCP + BACnet
  • Annual calibration included

SAP, TOTVS, MV integration

Events trigger a work order in the maintenance ERP. Consumption per sector goes to costing. ICUs see status in the HIS.

  • REST + webhooks
  • OPC-UA for BMS
  • SSO via AD / Azure

Installation without stopping the network

Our own team installs transducers and gateways in up to 10 business days, without depressurizing the network or shutting down a sector.

  • Hot-tap installation
  • Maintenance training included
  • Commissioning certification
AUTOMATED COMPLIANCE

NBR 12188, RDC 50 and JCI, the audit becomes a 2-minute report.

Every pressure reading, every alarm, every maintenance action is recorded with a cryptographic timestamp. The periodic verification schedule runs on its own, your team just approves and signs.

100%
periodic verifications on time
−18h
per week on manual PM
2min
to generate the quarterly report
ABNT
NBR 12188
Centralized medical gas systems, installation and verification.
AUTOMATED
ANVISA
RDC 50/2002
Physical design, equipment installation and operation in hospitals.
AUTOMATED
IEC
60601-1
Safety of electromedical equipment connected to the gas network.
AUTOMATED
JCI
FMS 9.2
Management of critical systems and regular testing of hospital utilities.
AUTOMATED
CLIENTS

Gas networks operating with DROME today.

University hospital (340 beds)
Public · São Paulo · 2 adult ICUs + neonatal
Challenge

After a critical event with a pressure drop in the central O₂ at 3 a.m., management mandated continuous monitoring with prediction. It was mandatory to keep 24/7 operation during installation.

Result
0
critical events in 14 months
45min
average alert lead time
82%
fewer false alarms

The first real pressure drop was predicted 47 min ahead. Maintenance replaced the regulating valve with the network live, without transferring a patient.

Private hospital network
5 hospitals · 1,100 beds · North and Northeast
Challenge

Standardize gas monitoring across 5 units with plants from different vendors (Whitemartins and Air Liquide), each with proprietary SCADA and no integration between them.

Result
5/5
hospitals in a single cockpit
−34%
O₂ consumption via flow adjustment
R$ 3.2M
consolidated annual savings

The network's clinical engineering monitors every network from a single dashboard. Consumption optimized by adjusting set-points based on real occupancy.

FAQ

The questions every clinical engineer asks.

If you have something specific to your network, our medical gas specialists respond within 4 business hours.

Yes. We install our own transducers at the critical points of the network, plants, manifolds, risers and outlets, regardless of who supplies the gas. Integration with existing SCADA is done over Modbus TCP, BACnet or OPC-UA when available.

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Medical Gases | DROME — O₂, air and vacuum monitoring with AI