Staff location and alarm system ensures safety in hospitals
21 February 2006
The Real-Time Location System (RTLS) from Ekahau Inc. provides a
personnel tracking solution with an alarm system that will allow security
personnel to quickly identify where incidents are taking place and respond
to them.
It integrates with Wi-Fi networks already in operation in many hospitals
and health care facilities. Using the RTLS's Ekahau Positioning Engine (EPE)
3.1 software and Ekahau T201 WLAN tags, hospital administrators and security
personnel are able to track the location of doctors and nurses via an
Intranet site on any web-enabled device. In an emergency situation, a
hospital employee wearing the Ekahau tag can push its alarm button to summon
help. The alarm signal can be routed to security personnel monitors as well
as to their cell phones via SMS text message.
"Ekahau's RTLS has long been used by hospitals to keep track of mobile
equipment. But the RTLS also provides hospitals with a simple way to care
for their most valuable assets — their employees," said Antti Korhonen,
president and CEO of Ekahau. "By offering versatile alarm routing in
addition to our real-time location capabilities for employee safety
applications, Ekahau is delivering a richer solution for the health care
industry, as well as one that is cost-effective and can be set up in a
matter of days."
Hospitals worldwide already are relying on the Ekahau RTLS to protect
their employees. For example, Tuusula Hospital in Finland, Arras Central
Hospital in Northern France and Mayores Hospital in Calhorra, Spain, have
all selected Ekahau RTLS to improve their staff safety.
"The safety of our staff and patients has always been the number one
priority for us. After our selection process of mobile nurse safety systems,
Ekahau RTLS came out as the clear winner. Their system was cost effective
and easy to deploy, and the underlying Wi-Fi network can be now also used
for other data and voice communication purposes," said Tuusula hospital CFO
Hellevi Norema.
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