Unified Asset Visibility Solutions

for Healthcare
Real-time location, status and condition of assets,
patients and staff throughout your hospital

Leverage standard Wi-Fi

networks for:
• Asset Management
• Equipment Maintenance
• Temperature & Humidity
Monitoring
• Patient & Staff Safety
• Patient Flow
 Why AeroScout?
• Industry-leading provider of
healthcare visibility solutions
Overview • Leverages existing Wi-Fi network
Healthcare organizations face a variety of challenges, including increasing
with unparalleled scalability and
financial pressure, regulatory mandates, an ongoing need for improved use lowest network impact
of staff time, and patient and staff safety concerns. Many of the problems
• Hospital-wide solution that fits all
which contribute to these challenges share a common cause – a lack of
healthcare visibility applications
”visibility” into the real-time location, status and condition of patients, staff,
• Web-based MobileView software
medical equipment and other mobile assets. An infusion pump that isn’t
enables alerting, reporting and
maintained on time, an open refrigerator with temperature-sensitive goods,
viewing location, status and
suboptimal patient flow within and between departments, or a wandering condition data on a variety of
patient can all have a major impact on a hospital’s overall quality of care. devices
AeroScout brings much-needed solutions to these challenges, increasing
• Room / bay level resolution
visibility within hospitals and delivering the tools to drive operational and immediate choke-point
efficiency. detection
• Open interface for integration
and a variety of integrated
The AeroScout Unified Asset Visibility Suite hospital information systems
for Healthcare • Complete healthcare solutions
AeroScout solutions provide visibility into the location, status and condition and applications
of assets, patients and staff throughout all departments in the hospital. • Exclusively endorsed by the
AeroScout is the chosen solution for many leading hospitals around the American Hospital Association
world and provides the only Wi-Fi location solution endorsed by the
American Hospital Association (AHA).

AeroScout’s healthcare solutions include real-time Asset Management,

Equipment Maintenance, Temperature & Humidity Monitoring, Patient
Flow and Patient & Staff Safety. These modular and scalable applications
all employ AeroScout’s industry leading technology that leverages clients’
existing Wi-Fi infrastructure and integrates with most healthcare IT software
systems.

AeroScout solutions serve the needs of clinical staff, IT management,

materials management, clinical and biomedical engineers, laboratory
and pharmacy personnel and others. These solutions ensure regulatory
compliance, improve safety, reduce capital and operational expenditures,
increase staff efficiency, increase revenue and enhance patient care.

Track Current and historical location, status and condition of assets,

patients and staff

Automatically and immediately regarding context-based events

Alert that require attention

Valuable assets and people through a single Web-based user

Manage interface with reporting tools and dashboards

Location and status information into existing hospital systems (e.g., OR

Integrate information systems, maintenance and materials management, etc.)
 The AeroScout Healthcare Visibility Suite Includes
Asset Management – Real-time equipment tracking solution features automated inventory management, par
level management, order fulfillment and rental management capabilities. It leverages the existing Wi-Fi network
for hospital-wide visibility of equipment (e.g. infusion pumps, wheelchairs, defibrillators) location, condition and
status. Hospital map views of specific assets or groups of assets are accessed from a Web-based application and from
handheld devices. Real-time equipment location integration to inventory and materials management systems is
provided, as are sophisticated reporting tools for analysis of utilization rates, inventory, distribution and par levels.

Equipment Maintenance – Automates the current manual processes that hospitals have for locating equipment
requiring preventive maintenance, repair or recall. Hospital map views of specific assets or groups of assets requiring
maintenance or recall are accessed from a Web-based application and handheld devices. Integration of real-time
equipment location and map views with maintenance management systems is provided, as are sophisticated
reporting tools which improve the workflow of daily maintenance processes.

Temperature & Humidity Monitoring - Safe temperature ranges for organs, vaccines, blood bags, food and
pharmaceuticals are ensured through an automated Wi-Fi monitoring and alerting system. AeroScout’s Wi-Fi
temperature tags are simply placed in hospital refrigerators or freezers. In addition, humidity ranges in patient or
operating rooms are monitored by AeroScout’s Wi-Fi humidity tags. The solution leverages the hospital’s existing Wi-Fi
network, it requires no dedicated sensor network, no hard wires and is easy to install. AeroScout’s MobileView software
provides automated temperature and humidity monitoring and alerting, as well as all required logging and reporting
data for regulatory compliance.

Patient & Staff Safety – Includes a set of applications for Patient Elopement, Staff Duress and Patient Distress. Some
patients (e.g. trauma, Alzheimer’s and dementia patients) may pose a risk to themselves or to staff. The solution
enables tracking patients throughout the hospital and immediately indicates when a patient exits the ward/building or
enters a restricted area. Patients can be equipped with wireless call button tags to alert staff of an emergency. Staff can
carry call-button tags, which they can press to alert other staff members upon encountering an emergency or in staff
duress situations. Additionally, AeroScout enables integration of RTLS to Nurse Call systems to detect staff presence in
patient rooms and automate processes.

Patient Flow – In the OR, ED, clinics and other departments, knowing the location and status of clinical staff, patients,
beds and critical clinical equipment is essential to improving patient care and departmental workflow. Staff can use
the location and status to ensure procedures begin on time and decrease patient wait times. The real-time visibility
of patients within and between departments and the availability of rooms and beds are easily determined through
tracking boards. The location and status data can be integrated into existing software systems to help optimize
workflows and increase throughput.

Automatically and
wirelessly monitor
Room and bay level refrigerator and
separation for workflow freezer temperature Track patients and assets
and resource management ranges hospital-wide

Web-based user inter-

face available from any
workstation or hand-held
mobile device

Trigger instantaneous
Real-time inventory
alerts for patient safety
counts and par
applications or assets
level management
entering/leaving a
of assets
defined area
 Solution Components
Tags and Wi-Fi Devices
AeroScout’s industry-leading Wi-Fi tags are small, rugged wireless
devices that can be attached to assets or people to track their
location. Each tag sends a small, unique, wireless signal, allowing the
AeroScout software to recognize the specific tag and its movements.
The tags have a battery life of up to four years and include advanced
features such as a call button, temperature and humidity sensing
capabilities, tamper sensing and motion detection. Assets can be
tracked either indoors or outdoors, and any Wi-Fi enabled device can
be tracked without requiring any software client installation.

Infrastructure
Standard Wi-Fi access points act as “readers,” receiving all AeroScout
tag transmissions and forwarding them to a location engine which
determines accurate location. This allows hospitals to use their
existing Wi-Fi network for their real-time visibility solutions.

AeroScout Exciters are unique choke-point detection devices, which

cause tags within a close range to send an instantaneous alert. This
ensures that hospitals can determine when an asset, staff member or
patient goes through a doorway, enters / exits a room or facility, or
enters a restricted area.

MobileView Software
MobileView is AeroScout’s Web-based enterprise-wide software
solution for viewing location, status and condition information
from any source (Wi-Fi RFID, Passive RFID, sensors, etc.). The system
includes searching capabilities, rules-based alerts, and advanced
reporting. MobileView location and status information can be
integrated into other hospital management systems and can also be
viewed on mobile devices.

Assets Wi-Fi Location MobileView

Network Engine Software

AeroScout Tags and Standard Wi-Fi AeroScout Location Engine AeroScout MobileView
Wi-Fi Devices Access Points
Did you know:
The average hospital loses as much as 15% of its critical
assets every year1
51% of nurses report that they spend at least 30 minutes
per shift searching for equipment2
You Can See Clearly Now
AeroScout’s visibility solutions are proven to deliver ROI to hospitals in less than one year by applying the power of
location, status and condition information to improve operations throughout the hospital and across multiple functional
areas. The total cost of ownership (TCO) of the solution is reduced by leveraging existing wireless infrastructure. Benefits
of the AeroScout Healthcare Visibility Suite include:

Asset Management
• Improved asset utilization and purchase management resulting in
reduced capital expenditures and rental costs
More than just where
• Increased staff efficiency by automating equipment searches Installing a complete AeroScout
• Theft and loss reduction through real-time tracking and alerting solution in a hospital means more
• Improved quality of care and increased patient throughput due to than just finding things faster. It
improved equipment availability means automatically notifying
Equipment Maintenance staff before they run out of critical
• Improved regulatory compliance through higher levels of on-time equipment. It means empowering
completion of equipment preventive maintenance materials managers to deliver
• Increased clinical engineering efficiency and productivity equipment more efficiently and
• Improved patient safety and overall quality of care through allowing laboratory staff to spend
successful recall management and timely equipment maintenance more time focusing on quality
Temperature Monitoring of care and less time checking
• Improved regulatory compliance with temperature data collection refrigerator temperatures. It means
requirements alerting security as emergencies
• Increased staff efficiency by freeing up caregivers’ time happen, in real-time. It means
• Improved quality of care through constant monitoring of safe updating hospital information
temperature ranges and analysis of logged data to identify trends systems with accurate, valuable data
• Spoilage reduction - reduce typical time it takes to identify and about patient movement. Visibility
react to a temperature problem is more than just “where” - it’s the
Patient & Staff Safety power to improve processes.
• Reduced amount of safety incidents
• Improved safety and peace of mind for clinical staff
• Improved quality of care
Patient Flow
• Increased revenue and throughput by implementing optimized
and automated processes
• Increased staff efficiency and patient satisfaction through reduced
wait times and improved ALOS

1. Source: ID TechEx (2007)

2. Source: Cisco – The High Cost of Nurses Communication Challenges (2009)
About AeroScout
AeroScout is the market leader in Unified Asset Visibility solutions. Customers improve
operational efficiency using AeroScout products that leverage standard Wi-Fi networks
to track and manage the location, condition and status of mobile assets and people.
AeroScout’s global customer base consists of leading hospital, manufacturing and
logistics organizations, including many of the Fortune 500. The company originally
invented the first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and today is widely recognized as
leading the market in number of deployments and tags shipped. Headquartered
in Redwood City, California, AeroScout has offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia,
Australia and Latin America. For more information, please visit www.aeroscout.com.

Locations
AeroScout (Headquarters) Japan Office
1300 Island Drive Tel: +81 3 3556 9003
Suite 202 Fax: +81 3 5875 3723
Redwood City, CA 94065 E-mail: apac@aeroscout.com
Tel: +1 (650) 596 2994
Fax: +1 (650) 596 2969 Asia-Pacific Sales
E-mail: info@aeroscout.com Tel: +1 (650) 596 2994
E-mail: apac@aeroscout.com
Europe, Middle East, Africa Office
Tel: +32 2 709 2949 Australia and New Zealand Sales
Fax: +32 2 791 9028 Tel: +61 3 9013 4449
E-mail: emea@aeroscout.com E-mail: anz@aeroscout.com

Latin America Office

Tel: +52 55 5001 5769
E-mail: latam@aeroscout.com

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