• Asset Tagging Systems UK

    Locate items quickly, get assets to patients quickly, reduce inventories & reduce costs

Asset Tagging & Management Systems

Can You Afford Not To Employ This Active RFID Asset Tracking Technology?

An average hospital loses many £000’s every day in due to wasted time spent searching for mobile medical equipment, not to mention the over-procurement of physical assets ensuring availability. With our asset tracking systems, you’ll be able to realise a fast return on your investment within the healthcare sector.

With simple list views of your items you’ll be combining real-time location asset tracking information with important maintenance and serial number inventory control data and information. This will enable your staff to efficiently and effectively manage your facilities fixed healthcare assets throughout the hospital. Alternatively, for a more intuitive overview, your items can viewed in a graphical format. That’s what makes our asset tagging products stand out.

Finding Your Assets Quickly – Asset Tracking Systems Hospitals

Finding your important assets quickly will improve patient outcomes and patient access in the hospital. Our management and tracking assets solutions help with improvements in patient flow by eliminating senseless blockages and will also generally aid with improving hospital operations.

Preventing Hoarding of Assets

Hoarding is a massive issue in the most hospitals. If you’re looking to change to culture of hoarding, then our real time location technology is the obvious starting point. You’ll also be able to receive automatic alerts when hospital units run low on IV pumps with our asset tracking system – and even in conjunction with barcode scanners.

Automate Preventative Maintenance Dates

With our software, you’ll also be able to evaluate any purchasing requests by using super accurate and unbiased data behind how often existing medical equipment is actually used for patient care. With our asset real time tracking solutions, when an asset such as an IV Pump exceeds its scheduled period in say the hospital repair department a reminder notification can automatically be sent to the appropriate people to expedite matters. In summary, effective Asset Management also relies heavily on effective maintenance procedures and our technology can assist with your asset register.

The Accuracy of Our Locating Technology

Unlike other RTLS (Real Time Locating Systems) technologies, we have found that the investment in employing infrared (IR) and radio frequency (RFID) technology, sometimes coupled with LF beacons allows for very precise locating. The last thing our clients would want is the hassle of having to constantly recalibrate their system. Since IR signals cannot penetrate walls, we can easily achieve room granular locating.  When can also define smaller sections of the room or for example to detect a person in the very near field of a door or cabinet. A well designed system depends on your choice of infrastructure from day one – it’s not just the asset label tag tracking then.

Long Battery Tag Life – To Free You Up For Things That Really Matter

Rest assured that when idle, intervals between signals is longer and will save on battery life. As soon as active tags senses motion again, it automatically changes its transmission mode to normal intervals. Long battery life is a tremendous lifecycle feature that our clients really appreciate since it reduces disruption down the line in their already busy lives.

Feature Spotlight
Clinical Grade Accuracy

Key Features

  • Real Time Awareness of Inventory

  • Improve patient flow by quickly getting equipment for patients

  • Produce Reports

  • Reduce Preventative Maintenance Times

  • Reduce Needless Equipment Purchases

  • Reduce Hoarding

  • Rule Driven Alerts and Prompts

  • Systems Integration

  • Improve Efficiency for Carers

System Components:

RTLS Temperature Detection Probe

Key Features:
What are the consequences of your drug’s fridge failing? That’s why more and more people are employing temperature monitoring probes. Staff will be instantly alerted to an event via pagers for example

Real Time Location Software – Map View

Key Features:
– Graphical view of staff and/or assets for your premises
This automatically updated electronic whiteboard, requires
no manual data entry
– Know at a glance the location of your staff and assets
– Search Box facility

Real Time Location Software – List View

Key Features:
– This automatically updated electronic whiteboard, requires
no manual data entry
– Know at a glance the location of your staff and assets
– Search Box facility
– Self Documenting – Zero Guesswork
– Eliminate wasted time search for colleagues and items

Real Time Location Location-Reader

Features:
The Elpas RF IP Reader is a fully supervised; 433.92MHz indoor, zone-level RTLS receiver that detects and relays ‘Location’ and ‘State’ data from Elpas Active RFID Tags to a host RTLS application server. Available in ceiling or wall mounted configurations, the Reader supports: XML messaging for hardware level integration and bi-directional data transmission with up to fifteen Elpas fixed infrastructure devices.

Configured for safety security and visibility

Real Time Location LF Beacon (Centrak-Elpas)

Features:
The LF Beacon is a wall or ceiling mountable low frequency emitter for use in indoor building environments. The device provides Elpas RTLS solutions with immediate location awareness that a tagged asset or person has passed through a protected doorway or a specific entrance/exit area.
The LF Beacon emits a programmable field up to 4.5m/ 14.7ft in radius and can be deployed in a primary–secondary configuration for covering double-doors or indoor lobby areas.

Real Time Location Beacon IR Reader

Features:
The Elpas IR Reader is a fully supervised, indoor RTLS receiver that detects and relays ‘Room-Level Location’ and ‘Device State’ data from Elpas Active IR-Enabled RFID Tags to a host RTLS application server.
Available in Ethernet or RS-485 BUS configurations, the IR Reader supports: XML messaging technology for hardware level system integration and RTLS data transmission with up to fifteen Elpas fixed infrastructure devices.

Eiris Software (Centrak-Elpas)

Key Features:
– Alarming, Tracking, I/O, Access Control, CCTV
– Network Configuration, Reports
– Client/Server (Directed Alarms)
– Paging, SMS, Email Messaging, Dynamic Maps
– Arm/Disarm and Tag Activation
– Tag Matching and Escort, Synchronisation with Controllers
– SDK, Temperature Monitoring

Active RFID Tag – Nurse & Doctor Badges

Key Features:
– Designed with Safe & Efficient Healthcare Establishments
– These portable units transmit their location in real time to ceiling receivers
– The wearer’s ID can be affixed.
– An integral staff attack button is also included
– Long Life Batteries
– Low Battery Indication

Active RFID Tag – Lone Worker (Centrak-Elpas)

Key Features:
– Small unobtrusive mobile alarm units
– Fall detection, ripcord and button-push call options
– Long battery life, no charging needed
– Event location included in alert message
– Intelligent alert routing reduces response time
– Real time monitoring and logging
– Integrates with CCTV and access control

Active RFID Tag – Baby Tagging (Centrak-Elpas)

– Highly scalable tag capacity
– Secure mother/baby matching
– Tag tamper alerting
– Flexible baby escort options
– Easy-to-use software
– Smartphone security applications
– International safety compliance
– Integrates with nurse call and security systems

Active RFID Tag – Identity Badge

Features:
– Quad-tech RTLS signaling technologies
– Two programmable call buttons
– Automatic device supervision
– LED status indicator
– Field replaceable lithium battery
– Simple to use, easy to clean
– CE, FCC, IC, compliant

Active RFID Asset Tag (Midmark)

Key Features:
– By utilising small, lightweight tags affixed to assets, the vital location
of equipment is constantly updated in real time
– This information can be displayed on a PC with our software
– Unique identification number
– Message if battery is low
– Integrated motion sensor for longer battery life: Radio signal and infrared signal every 120 s when idle. Radio signal every 120 s, infrared signal every 3 s when moving

Welcome to our Asset Tagging Systems

Introduction

We supply, install, test and commission advanced Technology Active RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) Passive RFID, and Physical Access safety, security and visibility products and solutions. Our solutions are designed to protect your assets, staff, patients and visitors in acute care hospitals, manufacturing facilities; storage depots and museums in the most cost effective way possible.

Infrastructure

We can supply our system in a number of topologies including the option for an IP platform. Local operating networks are commonly requested and more and more we are supplying bigger sites that have disparate systems separated from one another with LAN solutions. Our location readers are fixed mounted receivers that detect and forward ‘location’ and ‘state’ data from our active RFID Tags to a host RTLS security software server. Our low frequency beacons add additional real-time pinpoint location visibility. Finally, we employ input devices to integrate traditional security inputs and outputs into RTLS Solutions.

Integration

A common request is Nurse Call Automation. As nurses enter the room, their ‘presence’ is automatically registered and time stamped. The active ‘presence’ condition will automatically reset as they leave the room. This also captures nurse rounding data. In addition, our system will interface with existing security systems such as access control and CCTV. A common request is for escorting – where an authorised member of staff wearing the ELPAS staff tag is accepted by the system as authorised to leave the monitored zone with patients – without activating an alarm.

Real Time and Historical Data to Drive Efficiency, Save Cost & Improve Safety

Once you’ve deployed your infrastructure and your equipment and staff are equipped with tags and badges, you’ll be simply amazed by the opportunities to drive time saving and care improving changes through your organisation. Data can be viewed in the form of a list or graphically at either at fixed locations or on the move with mobiles in real time. In addition, data can be pulled from the system for historical reports too – for example to analyse past movements of patients in the event of an infection outbreak.

Ultra Safe Call Capacity, Handling & Data Logging

Zero Calls Lost

New Systems

Before we talk, we listen at RTLS Communications. We take pride in helping you achieve your goals with good old fashioned and friendly engineering guidance.

Extensions

Whether you’re looking for a small extension or a bigger refurbishment, we’ll always aim to give you a few, cost effective options to help you make the right decision.

Maintenance

A safe, working system is often taken for granted. Service is important. Initially we’ll focus on fixing issues and then work with you to steadily lower lifecycle costs.

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End User

Estates manager or on the clinical side?  As you have to live with the system, you’ll no doubt want a demonstration to put your mind at ease? This can easily be arranged.

Architect or Consultant

If you’re putting together a scheme and would like some fresh ideas that will improve your design and deliver best value – call us for a friendly chat now.

Main & Electrical Contractors

If you’ve got an existing enquiry and you’d like us to give you a quotation – then just send it to us and we’ll give you a call on receipt.

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