Chubb Edwards (a VT Canadisn certified security partner) will be demostrating at the Contech Building Events Show – Nov. 25th at the Palais Des Congres de Montreal, how Elpas Real-Time Tracking (RTLS) Solutions can enhance personnel and visitor safety in commercial, governmental, healthcare and educational building environments.
Contact Mohsen Hekmatyar at : mohsenh@visonictech.com for additional show details.
VT has added as an accessory for the Elpas Heathcare Positioning Tag a Reusable Wristband with Lock. This new wristband option was designed for Wandering Patient and Patient Tracking Solutions and is ideal for senior residents or ambulatory patients suffering from Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia who exhibit the tendency to remove their Elpas wrist tags since they see them as unfamiliar.
The Reusable Wristband with Lock is made from safe canvas non-elastic material and is locked around the wrist using a patient safe pin/magnet. When worn the tracking tag may be easily removed from the protected individual’s wrist using a handheld magnetic pin retraction tool.
Contact your VT Representative for details.
CERV Stratel – a certified VT partner headquartered in Paris and with offices throughout France, will be showcasing Elpas and SpiderAlert safety solutions at ExpoProtection 2010 – Nov 2-5 at the Paris Nord Villepinte..
Join CERV Stratel at Stand T082-Hall 5 to to learn how Elpas Real-Time Tracking Solutions and SpiderAlert Emergency Call Solutions can enhance personnel and visitor safety in commercial, government. and correctional environments.
The Elpas Door Kit supplies low-cost versatile protection of ambulatory individuals suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and dementia or other high risk residents and patients who exhibit the tendency to wander off unnoticed.
This Wandering Patient Protection Solution permits regular movement of care givers, other residents or family members through a protected doorway while preventing un-supervised ‘Wanderers’ from leaving the protected area. Should these high risk residents or patients approach the door through which they are not allowed to pass unescorted, the solution’s automatic alert functionality immediately triggers.
The Elpas Door Kit highlights VT’s technological commitment to deliver wandering patient protection for smaller healthcare facilities. As an innovative safety and security engineered solution which is easy to install with minimal facility impact, it eliminates the need for a costly dedicated computer server, does not require field programming and is simple to use by all staff members.
The Elpas Door Kit is factory pre-configured to support flexible patient escort alternatives, handle as many patients, residents or escorts as required and supports intelligent alert options. This out-of-the-box solution is easily expandable to cover additional doors, an entire floor, a whole building or a complete campus in order to protect patients and staff members and to manage medical assets without degradation to the core wandering patient functionality.
The Elpas Door Kit is internationally safety compliant and is CE, FCC and IC approved.
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VT announces the availability of its enhanced Elpas Active RFID/RTLS Reusable Tag. The tag’s unique form factor and comfort makes it ideal for protecting infants from abduction in maternity units or for the monitoring and tracking of high-risk patients who wander.
The tag’s dual technology transmitter emits radio frequency (RF) messages plus infra-red (IR) messages that can be used to determine the location of the infant or patient to room level and sub-room level precision in open and enclosed indoor spaces without EMF interference to hospital equipment. The tag also has a low frequency (LF) receiver that supports chokepoint area detection.
The Reusable Tag supports Elpas2; VT’s new, innovative topology for backhauling RFID/RTLS security and safety solutions over wired or wireless Ethernet/Wi-Fi networks and also complements VT‘s growing portfolio of 433MHz Active RFID/RTLS tags for asset security and utilization, personnel and patient safety and remote sensor applications.
To encourage the continued growth and broad adoption of Elpas Active RFID/RTLS security and safety solutions, EIRIS Visibility & Security Management Software now supports Lontalk as well as Ethernet network protocols. This gives EIRIS the flexibility to simultaneously receive and process RF and IR sub-room location data from Elpas Active RFID Asset, Personnel or Infant Protection tags over wired/wireless IT backbones or via Lontalk networks.
EIRIS V4.6.3 now seamlessly handles hybrid network infrastructures that are comprised of Elpas1 LonWork fixed readers and devices and/or Elpas2 Ethernet enabled fixed readers and devices leading to the transparent utilization of these heterogeneous network types within the same facility. EIRIS V4.6.3 also contains all the functionality from any of the previous versions of V4.6 as well as major user enhancements in EV2. If your legacy Elpas installations have never elected to update before, now may be the perfect time.
EIRIS V4.6.3 is available for immediate download from the Visonic Technologies web site. Consult your VT Professional Services Representative for further details:
Visonic Technologies announces the immediate availability of its new Elpas2
High-Definition IR Reader. The device is designed to detect and relay Sub-Room Location data from Elpas IR-Enabled Active RFID Asset, Personnel or Infant Protection Tags to host applications; facilitating the real-time tracking of valuable fixed and mobile assets, high-risk patients as well as personnel or visitors 24 hours a day with pin-point accuracy.
“The new Elpas2 High-Definition IR Reader enhances RTLS performance in healthcare, senior living and general office environments by providing reliable, yet low-cost sub-room location accuracy” said Michael Wasserstein, CEO of Visonic Technologies. “As example, our new IR reader provides hospital administrators with the ability to accurately identify different patient-beds within the same medical ward; enabling the automatic logging of patient and caregiver interaction.”
The Elpas2 High-Definition IR Reader is plug and play compatible with the Elpas2 RF Ethernet Reader, making possible the leveraging of legacy wireless or wired Wi-Fi or Ethernet Networks plus XML messaging for integration with 3rd party applications.
The Elpas2 High-Definition IR Reader complements and adds to VT’s growing portfolio of Ethernet and LonWork network Active RFID/RTLS fixed topology devices; and is to be marketed through the company’s worldwide network of qualified partners.
For more information about the Elpas2 High-Definition IR Reader, contact Barry Insell at: Barryi@visonictech.com.
In conjunction with our growing Elpas2 Active RFID/RTLS product line, Visonic Technologies has expanded and enhanced our in-house Quality Assurance Department in order to support the continued goal of providing VT customers with the highest quality hardware and software products.
VT’s expanded in-house Quality Assurance Department is more than doubled its original physical operating space. “We have created a secure QA testing facility with state-of-the-art hardware capable of simulating real deployment conditions and to recreate difficult radio network conditions caused by different types of building construction or ambient RF noise” says David Fensterheim VP – Professional Services Group. ‘With our expanded facility, we are able to take a much more rigorous approach to quality assurance and are also able to dedicate more time to testing products before they are released for mass production.
VT is also on a mission to “Create Awareness” among our customers and partners of the important role they can play in our overall quality assurance process. “There’s nothing more valuable than having one of our partners be an on-site Beta tester,” says Fensterheim.” And as such, VT is eagerly seeking more partners to participate in our ongoing Beta testing programs”.
For more information about VT’s Quality Assurance Program or to find out how to participate in future Elpas2 Beta Testing, contact David Fensterheim at fensterheim@visonictech.com.
Visonic Technologies today announced the promotion of David Fensterheim to Vice President of VT’s new Professional Services Group. Mr. Fensterheim will be a member of senior VT management and will report directly to President and CEO Michael Wasserstein. Mr. Fensterheim has previously served as VT’s Product Director and was extensively involved in the planning and launch of the company’s new Elpas2 network topology. Mr. Fensterheim has also held leadership roles in a number of other companies including ForSoft Ltd, The Formula Group and Geo Graph Ltd. He holds a B. Sc degree in Electro-Optics from the Jerusalem College of Technology and has served with distinction as an officer in the Israeli navy.
According to CEO, Michael Wasserstein, “David brings the experience and leadership necessary to lead our new Professional Services Group. Filling this role with someone of David’s caliber will help advance the commitment to service excellence that we want to instill in our professional services organization, as we strive to create superior value for both our customers and partners.”
In his new role as Vice President – Professional Services Group, Mr. Fensterheim will manage a global team of service specialists focusing on improving partner and customer satisfaction through the delivery of advisory services as well as through the application of VT’s industry expertise in technical delivery. Mr. Fensterheim’s main responsibilities will be to upgrade and extend VT’s professional support service offerings in the areas of business consulting, technical design, project management and commissioning, post-installation support and review, plus partner and customer training.
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