LokaPro is a joint R&D effort between Almende and Undagrid, which builds upon the ACAI-platform project but applies it to a different use case, namely that of tracking costly medical assets such as oxygen pumps as they move through the medical chain (e.g. from a hospital to a patient’s home location).

In many cases, a medical asset is ‘leased’ from a supplier and frequently changes hands, either from patient to patient or from organization to organization. After all, if patients are discharged from the hospital they may nonetheless require certain assets such as wheelchairs or oxygen pumps, which they receive on loan. In practice, these assets are not always returned and are difficult for organizations to track, especially once the patient falls under another organization’s responsibility.