Camera view of a dental clinic, with each treatment chair marked in use or empty
Bay 1 · in use 32 min
Bay 2 · in use 18 min
Bay 3 · empty

Treatment chair and bay utilisation

Know how often each treatment chair or bay is in use, so costly clinical resources aren’t left idle. Chair and bay use is estimated from bookings, which miss no-shows, late starts and idle time.

2 / 4Chairs in use
20 minBay 3 booked but empty
71%Chair use this morning
The problem

Why it matters.

Chair and bay use is estimated from bookings, which miss no-shows, late starts and idle time. Departments ask for more chairs when the real problem is scheduling.

What it detects and measures

  • Whether each chair or bay is in use or empty
  • How long each session lasts
  • Daily use of each chair, by department
  • Gaps between patients, and late starts
  • Booked use compared with actual use, where booking data is available

Typical applications

Dental hospitals and clinicsTeaching hospitalsTreatment and recovery baysDialysis and infusion units
How it works

Set up in four steps.

Self-service, in the browser, on the cameras you already own.

  1. 01Connect

    Uses the cameras already covering the clinic floor. No new hardware.

  2. 02Set the rule

    Mark each chair or bay, and link booking data if it’s available.

  3. 03Measure

    Records when each chair is in use and works out daily use by department, without identifying patients.

  4. 04Act

    When a booked chair sits empty, the clinic coordinator is alerted.

Alerts and results

What your team gets.

Alerts reach the person who can act, with the time, place and frame. Every event is kept for reporting.

Chair 4 booked but empty for 20 minClinic coordinator alerted
Department use below plan this morningDepartment lead informed
Daily summary readyChair use by department shared

For operations

  • Real chair use, not booking estimates
  • Idle chairs seen during the day, not at month end

For the business

  • More patients treated with the same chairs
  • Investment in new chairs and rooms based on evidence
  • Scheduling problems found and fixed
  • Accurate utilisation figures for reporting
Start small

Try treatment chair and bay utilisation on your own cameras.

Send us your camera list, the area that matters and some sample footage, and we’ll demonstrate what your cameras can measure today.

Start with one camera
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Footage credits

Demonstration footage. Some clips are AI-generated with Google Flow. Others are sample videos from Intel (CC BY 4.0; changes were made: clips are trimmed and overlaid), OpenCV sample data and Mixkit. Detection boxes come from an object-detection model run on each clip; labels and metric values are illustrative.