Responder IV/5 Integrated Nurse Call Features Elpas RTLS Functionality

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.

Elpas RTLS Now Includes Wireless Temperature Monitoring

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.

Enhanced Elpas Reusable Tag for Infant Protection & High-Risk Patient Applications

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.

VT Updates EIRIS – Now Supports Elpas2

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:

VT Expands, Enhances QA Department

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.