AeroScout, Inc., the leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Active RFID
solutions, has announced an innovative pilot project with Hospital St.
Louis, Luxembourg's largest hospital in the North to track patients,
staff and hospital assets. The primary purpose of the installation is
to provide greater protection to high-risk dementia patients, keeping
them safely within the hospital grounds and in close range of nurses
and caregivers.
"We have a high ratio of caregivers to patients, but have always
been aware of the need for additional measures when it comes to
tracking patient movements around the hospital to maintain their
safety and well-being," said Georges Wolfers, Director of ICT at
Hospital St. Louis. "AeroScout offered the most comprehensive solution
to our requirements with a user-friendly and scalable Wi-Fi-based
solution, and we are excited by its potential to improve our high
level of patient care."
AeroScout will provide Hospital St. Louis with its
industry-leading Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tags along with
enterprise-level management software and advanced hardware products
for asset and people tracking. These products utilize the Cisco
Unified Wireless Network in place at the hospital for a single network
that provides voice, data and location information.
The AeroScout T2 tags, which have more than four years of battery
life, are worn by patients or attached to hospital equipment, and emit
a signal which is detected and accurately located by the hospital's
Cisco Unified Wireless Network. Location and status data from these
tags is then sent to AeroScout's MobileView software and integrated
with interactive maps and detailed information. This will allow the
hospital to search for and identify at-risk patients in real-time,
over any Web browser. The AeroScout system can also trigger automated
alerts based on movement and location, immediately sending an email,
page or voice message to staff when a patient leaves a designated
area. AeroScout Exciters provide precision detection at doorways,
exits and other choke points.
"Hospital St. Louis is pioneering a new level of patient care, and
we're excited to work with the institution as it explores the benefits
of Wi-Fi-based Active RFID," said Andris Berzins, Managing Director,
EMEA at AeroScout. "We see strong demand for innovative tracking
solutions in the European healthcare market, and this installation is
further proof of our intent to maximize these opportunities."
The AeroScout solution is currently utilized to track patients in
need of heightened monitoring levels, as well as nursing staff and
various hospital assets. Based on the success of the initial
implementation, Hospital St. Louis is deploying tags for
patient-critical medical equipment such as infusion pumps, wheel
chairs, and more to improve utilization of these high-value assets.
"Hospitals have hundreds of assets that are critical to their
successful operation and it can take a significant amount of time to
locate these assets when needed," said Richard Roberts, director of
wireless business development at Cisco. "Location-based services, such
as the system deployed by Hospital St. Louis, can help improve patient
care and help reduce costs with a real-time view of where their
patients and assets are located."
About AeroScout
AeroScout is the market leader in Active RFID asset tracking and
location solutions over standard Wi-Fi networks. The company's
enterprise visibility solutions accurately locate and monitor assets
and people in both indoor and outdoor environments to improve business
processes. A winner of the 2007 Red Herring 100 Spring award for
innovative technology, AeroScout has several hundred customers
worldwide in the healthcare, manufacturing and logistics industries,
including Boeing and more than 35 of the world's leading hospitals.
Founded in 2000, AeroScout pioneered the Wi-Fi visibility market by
introducing the industry's first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and is
widely recognized as leading the market in number of tags shipped.
AeroScout is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices in
Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.aeroscout.com.
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