Visonic Technologies

Responder IV/5 Integrated Nurse Call Features Elpas RTLS Functionality

visonictech — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:47:38 +0000

Visonic Technologies and Rauland-Borg announce the interoperability of Elpas RTLS technology with legacy Responder IV Nurse Call installations. Thanks to Responder 5’s new interoperable platform, hospitals implementing the Network Adaptor Module (NAM) to update their Responder IV installations can now utilize the open integrations functionality of Responder 5 Software to add Elpas RTLS technology. Now Responder IV installations can support real-time staff presence functionality throughout the hospital to room and sub-room level accuracy, automatic visual indication that a patient’s needs are being responded to and automatic nurse call cancellation.

Hospitals may easily leverage their Elpas RTLS investment to enhance other areas of patient and personnel safety including Infant/Baby Protection in maternity wards, Staff Attack/Duress Alerting and Wandering Patient Supervision. Elpas Active RFID/RTLS can also be scaled to Manage Medical Assets in order to reduce shrinkage and lower maintenance related labor costs without degradation to nurse call functionality.

London School of Hygiene Researchers Select Elpas for Behavior Pilot Study

visonictech — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:30:05 +0000

Researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have selected Elpas RTLS for a pilot study of personal hygiene behavior in the home. Elpas RTLS will be used to determine whether real-time location data will be able to unobtrusively provide accurate information about an individual’s every day hygiene activities over extended periods of time.

The selected Elpas Hygiene Monitoring Solution combines Active RFID Wrist and Asset Tags, RF Tracking Readers and LF Exciters to accurately define sub-room areas such as bathroom sinks, toilets and showers. The tags when worn by the participants and attached to various home hygiene objects such as toothpaste and soap dispensers will enable researchers to infer behavior practices based on the simultaneous co-location of the participant and the tagged hygiene objects.

Elpas was selected from other competing RTLS systems due to its ability to identify key behaviors of multiple people within a household, by locating people and objects to small zones within rooms. Elpas was also able to provide application specific Active RFID Tags with a long battery life (to avoid the need to interact with participants on a regular basis to change batteries), ability to access the data remotely, and being relatively cost effective compared to other options.

Elpas RTLS will provide behavioral measurement reports relating to the daily hygiene activities (such as hand washing, bathing, toilet usage, oral hygiene and vitamin ingestion by family member, location and time). Researchers also intend to use Elpas to investigate ways to promote healthy habits as a way to achieving sustainable improvements to health related behaviors.

Stan Getz, New Sales Manager for VT

visonictech — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 07:19:20 +0000

Visonic Technologies today announces the appointment of Mr. Stan Getz as Regional Sales Manager for the Western United States as well as the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. In his new capacity, Mr. Getz will be responsible for the promotion, sale and support of VT’s Active RFID/RTLS Safety, Security and Visibility Solutions to VT’s network of resellers, system integrators and end users. While primarily focusing on acute healthcare, Mr. Getz will also support VT’s marketing and sales strategies of Elpas RTLS and SpiderAlert Emergency Signaling Solutions into assisted living facilities, museums, prisons and intelligent building environments.

Before joining Visonic Technologies, Mr. Getz recently served as a Regional Sales VP at Intelligent InSites. His background also includes extensive western regional sales management experience with Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS).

Elpas RTLS Now Includes Wireless Temperature Monitoring

visonictech — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:56:26 +0000

The new Elpas Temperature Monitoring Solution provides hospitals with a cost-effective, automated way to remotely monitor environmental sensitive medical assets or environments that require strict temperature range compliance for patient care and safety.

Elpas Temperature Monitoring enables hospitals to automate their temperature reporting protocols and practices (including the storage of temperature readings, triggered alerts and staff response logs). The solution supports automatic temperature-triggered alert notification options plus user customizable reports for analyzing temperature and deviation trends.

The Elpas Temperature Monitoring Solution utilizes the all new IP-64 water-rated, refrigerator mountable Elpas Temperature Sensor, which features an internal thermistor for the wireless monitoring of ambient temperatures. The sensor transmits real-time, location defined temperature readings through the Elpas Ethernet enabled RTLS infrastructure using standard wired or wireless Ethernet technologies to VT’s Eiris Active RFID/RTLS Monitoring Platform or to other networked hospital management systems. The sensor also features wireless call-button functionality to report preconfigured maintenance messages plus remote device supervision to ensure complete field reliability.

VT Adds DACH Region Sales Manager

visonictech — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:13:37 +0000

VT has appointed Dirk Becker as Sales Manager for the DACH region (Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Switzerland). In his new capacity, Mr. Becker will be responsible for developing sales channels and partnerships as well as cultivating multi-level relationships with new and existing customers.

Mr. Becker brings with him more than fifteen years of sales and business development experience in the fields of information technology video communication, unified collaboration as well as data center solutions. Before joining Visonic Technologies, Becker has held sales representative roles with Teklogix GmbH (today known as PSION-Teklogix) and Rodata Barcode AG and has also held sales managerial roles with Ezenia! International, Arel Communications & Software and Vitec GmbH. Mr. Becker has also been with PlateSpin ULC, a Novell Company, where he served as a DACH region Enterprise Account Manager.

Mr. Becker lives in Konstanz, Germany in the Lake Constance region of Germany, near the Swiss border.

VT Holds 2011 European Partner Forum

visonictech — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:59:27 +0000

VT’s 2011 European Partner Forum was held this year in sunny Tel-Aviv, Israel where partners from all around Europe participated in the 3-day conference. Participants had the opportunity to hear about VT product updates along with technical and sales discussions. Presentations were given on installations and unique projects carried out in Europe using Elpas technology. Everyone had the chance to meet staff from our sales & marketing team and research & development team to discuss topics of interest related to the existing technology and future developments. Participants also enjoyed a day of site seeing, visiting popular tourist attractions throughout the country.

VT North American Training

visonictech — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:01:59 +0000

During 2011, VT will continue to offer class-room based Instructor-Led-Training for partners and system integrators at our North American headquarters located in Bloomfield, Connecticut. (USA).

Learning sessions are comprised of presentations that provide both overviews and details of system functionality. Key topics are enhanced by training manuals and handouts together with extensive hands-on exercises so that participants can actually try out what they are learning.

SpiderAlert Schedule Elpas Schedule
June 8 – 10 June 15 – 17
Sept. 14-16 Sept. 21-23
Nov. 30 – Dec. 02 Dec. 7- 9

For information contact Daniel Attreed at: (800) 223-0020 x 219 / dattreed@visonictech.com

VT Adds New Elpas Active RFID Tags

visonictech — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:44:45 +0000

New versions of the Elpas Healthcare Position Tag and the Elpas Active Identity Badge have been factory configured to store the ID of the last LF Field that the devices have passed through. This enables ELC Controllers to support RTLS button-press based Elpas Healthcare Safety Solutions (such as wireless duress alerting) using strategically placed LF Exciters rather than having to install IR Readers in every room.

Consequently when the tag’s call-button is pressed, the tag will transmit a data message containing the tag ID, the button-press event and the last LF ID which the ELC can process to determine the location of the duress call.

By combining the Last LF tags, ELCs and the new Elpas Messaging Gateway, powerful, distributed and robust wireless button-press safety solutions may be achieved for a very affordable price.

Should you require further information, consult your local Visonic Technologies Representative for additional details.

VT Upgrades Eiris Tracking and Management Software

visonictech — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:09:03 +0000

EIRIS 4.7.1 is now available for customer deployment. This new release of our field-proven Eiris Tracking and Management Software has undergone a substantial upgrade in functionality including an abundance of new bundled features.

Using customer feedback collected by our professional services group over the past year, Eiris V 4.7.1 now provides a richer collection of tools to easily configure, manage and use VT’s range of unified and hybrid Elpas, SpiderAlert and VisAccess Safety, Security and Visibility Solutions.

Key new features and capabilities in Eiris 4.7.1 included:

Comprehensive support for hybrid Elpas installations that include both legacy LON and Elpas2 (Ethernet) network infrastructure devices. This is useful for scaling/expanding existing LON installations using Elpas Ethernet/RS-485 hardware.
Optional Visitor Module & Parking Lot extensions for VisAccess installations plus new LF Supervision, and Floor Recovery utilities for Elpas systems.

VT’s Presence at HIMSS11

visonictech — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 06:18:38 +0000

Visonic Technologies’ sales and management teams have recently returned from the HIMSS11 (Healthcare Information and Management Systems) conference where VT exhibited Elpas solutions at the conference’s new RFID and RTLS Showcase pavilion. The pavilion was designed by the RFID in Healthcare Consortium in conjunction with HIMSS. Visitors to this pavilion were able to learn more about the benefits of implementing RFID & RTLS solutions in their healthcare facilities.

The Hospital Smart Room was the main attraction of the pavilion, created to simulate a real patient room, exhibiting these technologies. VT’s BabyMatch Infant Protection Solution was among the solutions demonstrated. Visitors were able to see the full functionality of the infant protection solution including baby-mother match tests and exit and matching alarms. Pavilion visitors were also invited to visit VT’s kiosk where they were able to receive further information on other Elpas Active RFID & RTLS Healthcare Solutions.