Cisco Wireless with CenTrak’s Multi-Mode RTLS Platform
At-A-Glance
Healthcare Business Issues
CenTrak and Cisco Integration
The healthcare industry is faced with a wide variety of business challenges,
from improvements in patient care, throughput of specific units and reduction
of staff workflow and capital expenditures.
CenTrak can be seamlessly integrated with Cisco’s MSE to create a high-performance real-time location solution that uses the Cisco Wi-Fi network. CenTrak
is a Registered Developer in the Cisco Developer Network. Together, the Cisco
WLAN and CenTrak’s Multi-Mode technology provides the certainty-based
RTLS that is often a requirement for automating healthcare and workflow
applications.
Capital Expenditures
Patient Care
HCAHPS Scores
Staff Shortage
Workflow
Increasing Costs
Hand Hygiene
Asset Management
Product Loss
Rental Costs
Increased Demand
Capital Expenditures
HAIs
Staff Safety
Asset Tracking
Asset Management
OR/ER Throughput
Patient Tracking
Compliance
Equipment Shrinkage
Rental Costs
How Can RTLS Help?
Anything that leverages location awareness has the effect of
increasing capacity. Whether it’s just seeing assets on a map or a
comprehensive workflow optimization solution.
•
Increasing Capacity
•
Improving Workflow/Processes
> Maximizing Resources
> More Revenue
> Reduce Costs
•
Solution Overview
CenTrak’s Multi-Mode RTLS Platform combines Cisco® Wi-Fi location services
with CenTrak’s patented certainty-based Gen2IR into one scalable and flexible
solution. The platform enables the use of the Cisco® Wi-Fi infrastructure to
determine location through RF triangulation and also supports CenTrak’s
Clinical-Grade Locating technology, which delivers certainty-based room and
bed-level accuracy using battery-operated infrared devices and low-frequency
RF technology.
Elevating Patient Satisfaction
> Better HCAHPS Scores
> More Patient Referrals
Nurse Call
Patient & Staff
Workflow
Patient & Staff
Safety
Means of Determining Location
The location of the tag can be determined by one of two means. The first
occurs when the tag is in an area covered by CenTrak’s Monitors and Exciters,
which transmit a unique location ID using Gen2IR (using low frequency with
Exciters).
Asset
Management
Environmental
Monitoring
Hand Hygiene
Compliance
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Cisco Wireless with CenTrak’s Multi-Mode RTLS Platform
At-A-Glance
The tag recognizes the signal and then communicates a unique location ID,
along with the unique tag ID, back via the Cisco Wi-Fi network to the Cisco
Mobility Services Engine (MSE). The second way location can be determined
is solely using the triangulation calculations completed by the MSE from data
received through the Cisco wireless access points and wireless controllers that
make up the Cisco Wi-Fi infrastructure. Once location is determined, the data
can be streamed in real time by the CenTrak server to more than 100 integrated
partner applications, including nurse call, electronic medical records (EMR), and
high acuity systems.
CenTrak Multi-Mode Tags
Active-RTLS tags may be attached to assets or worn by people to provide
accurate location data in real time. CenTrak’s Multi-Mode Technology includes a
unique combination of Wi-Fi locating, CenTrak’s Gen2IR, and low-frequency RF
to keep the investment ready for the future and increase ROI.
Asset Visibility to Workflow Automation - Centrak’s RTLSTM platform
offers the ultimate flexibility to future-proof investment and maximize ROI.
Estimated
Location
What Are the Components of This Solution?
Cisco Wireless LAN
The position of the CenTrak Multi-Mode tags is determined by triangulating the
RF signals as detected by the Cisco Wi-Fi network. A robust, well designed Wi-Fi
network is central to the solution.
Cisco Mobility Services Engine
Other than access points and controllers, the Cisco MSE is required in that it
is key to calculation of location. The MSE also provides a rich set of security
functions, including Cisco CleanAir®, rogue detection and location, wireless
intrusion prevention system (wIPS), and wireless attack mitigation.
Estimated
Location
Asset Visibility
Uses CCX
(on Wi-Fi
networks)
• Leverage existing Wi-Fi networks
• Estimating location tracking
• Low Frequency Exciters may be
added to create choke points
Asset Management with
Certainly-Based Accuracy
• Introduce certainly-based locating
to specific rooms by installing
battery-operated Gen2IR devices
• Enable asset management workflow
applications
Clinical-Grade LocatingTM
• Certainly-based accuracy at the
bed-. bay-, and chair-level
• Rapid location update speeds
• Automate clinical workflow applications
• Extreme battery life
Centrak Certainty-Based RTLS Devices
CenTrak’s Gen2IR devices enable a high level of accuracy, which can locationenable a variety of healthcare applications. The battery-operated Gen2IR
emitting Monitors and Virtual Walls can be positioned wherever certainty-based
location data is needed, including rooms, hallways, and even bays. Like light,
Gen2IR will not pass through walls. However, it does not suffer from traditional
infrared and ultrasound line-of-sight limitations that often affect performance
in compact areas (such as emergency departments and clinics) and open areas
separated by curtains or glass.
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