Now a Wristband with Lock option for the Elpas Heathcare Positioning Tag

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.

The Elpas Door Kit is Everything You Need for a Single-Door Wandering Patient Starter Solution

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.

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: