4. Button Push on a tag carried by VA
employees alerts VA Police on both
Heinz and UD campuses
Button Push #1
5. Police on both campuses receive
•Employees Name
•Accurate location
2 – 3 Meters Indoors
Patrolling Officers paged with the same
information
6. Nearest cameras to incident are
activated and video is streamed to
designated screen in Police Headquarters
Police provided with incident location on
AutoCAD (vector) floor plans
Location updated automatically when VA
Employee moves 50 feet or more
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10. Information provided:
• Site
• Bldg
• Flr
• Rm
• Location based on
Floor plan
• Patient/Staff Name
• Date & Time of alert
* Information provided can also be sent in text form to
any mobile smart phone
11. September 2008 – September 2010
Awarded additional contracts for
PanicALERT covering 2 campuses, 20
buildings, 6,000,000 sq feet inside
and outside
12. University Drive H.J. Heinz
Over 6 million sq ft
Over 7 miles apart
Covering Different
Structures
- 6 floor Parking Garage
- Domiciliary at HZ
- 12 Story UD campus
- UD campus Rooftop
- Outdoors on both
campuses
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
SecurTRAK Coverage
13. Contract awarded September 2009
For the protection of At-Risk patients
while eliminating the need and
expense of sitters.
14. Multiple zones
Elevators
Police Notification
Cameras
Tracking throughout campus
Tamper proof tag
Low battery alert
16. Zone 1 Zone 2
Zone 5
Zone 6
Building
Exit
PatienTRAK Exit
Coverage
Zone 3 Zone 4
Zone 1 - 5 are local
alerts
‣Regular Patient Alert
‣Only Zone which patient is
from will be alerted
Zone 6 or Building
Exit
‣Escalated Alert
‣All zones and police
alerted
Wandering Patient Zones
Zone Coverage is easily customizable to location
21. PanicALERT installed 2002
500,000 sq feet, multiple buildings
1,000 Personnel tags
System up-time over 99.8% since
inception
Average usage ‘100’
times per month
22. The following slides will demonstrate the whys
and hows of our VA RFID/RTLS implementations
Since time is limited, please hold questions until
the end.
23. Miami VA Med Ctr
5 Buildings, 7 Floors
500,000 Square Feet
24.
25. Track Inside and ‘Outside’
Update tag locations in real-time on the VA
supplied Autocad Floor and Site Plans
Activate CCTV cameras at alerted locations
Send alert location and staff ID to Pagers
& Smart Phones
Associate patients and staff to multiple zones
Lock elevator doors open when at-risk
patients enter the cab
26. Make Patient Tracking System Stateless (no
user interaction)
Backup alert control to protect at-risk patients
even if the server goes down
Track tags in 9-Story Garage Complex
Alert when at-risk patients and/or critical assets
move out of defined zones
Hide readers and antennas inside infrastructure
where possible
27. Designed infrastructure for new Elpas2 reader technology
– RF readers now able to hear tags up to 200 feet away
indoors and 1500 feet outdoors
Designed custom mounts to hide readers throughout the
site (e.g. bollards, stanchions, internal roof mounts, etc.)
Worked directly with Pelco’s R&D Director to integrate
Pelco CCTV system into SecurTRAK
New readers able to communicate via IP over Ethernet
and/or WIFI - Tags are still located using stable 433Mhz
for best accuracy
28. RF Reader
Distance from Nearest Readers used for triangulation
Staff/Patient
Indoor Plan Showing Reader Coverage and
Location Logic
35. Indoor Plan Showing Boundary Recognition
at Tag Location
RF Reader
Boundary tag located within
Staff/Patient
Regular Boundary
36. Indoor Plan Showing Boundary Recognition
of Location
RF Reader
Boundary tag located within
Staff/Patient
Regular Boundary
Room Name, Floor, Bldg and Patient/Staff Name sent to pager
ex: Site 01 Bldg 50 FL 2 Room 2A108 Clerical office Name Dr
Linda Silver
37. Information provided:
‣ Site
‣ Building
‣ Floor
‣ Room
‣ Location based on Floor
plan
‣ Patient/Staff name
‣ Alert Date / Time
Information provided can also be sent in text form to any
mobile phone
38. Indoor Plan Showing Boundary Recognition for
CCTV Integration
RF Reader
Boundary tag located within
Staff/Patient
Regular Boundary
Camera
Cameras defined to be within view of the location of the alert
will begin streaming live to the displayer. In this case two
cameras.
39. CCTV cameras are integrated directly into
SecurTRAK
Synchronize Alerts for
Staff/Assets/Patients
with CCTV cameras in
associated area
42. LF 5ft - 15ft
Field coverage
Audible and visual alarm
activates when patient
approaches door or zone exit
Alert appears at Nurse
Station and/or Police Station
as well as a pager
44. Staff goes to alert
location, retrieves
patient and closes the
alert using
programmable button
two on their staff badge
Nurse with SecurTRAK badge
Button Push #2
45. SAMSUNG
Patient Tracking Grid automatically comes back
showing only the location of patients in that zone
After Alert
46. • Web-based for access
from any machine with a
browser
• Add, Remove, Edit
Personnel and Patient
Badges
• Change Badge Status
• Associate specific zones
with Patients and Staff
• Report Creation Access
• Query Tag Locations
Available on any Pittsburgh VA PC via web browser
47. Automatically switches to Local Control when
Server down for updates
Portal mechanisms still
activate based on business
rules built into Local Controller
Activations happen instantly
Audible / Visual enunciators
Door and Elevator Locking
Mechanisms
Button 2 Alert Clear
History still captured
49. Multi-site support & Data Roll-up
Middleware Interfaces to other VA
Systems
Nurse Call and Nurse Presence
Access Control
Time and Attendance
Infant Abduction
51. Tags Report Average
Temperature Every
5min
Temperature Accuracy
+/- 2C
Eiris Extension Alarms
on Deviation of Defined
Temperature Range
Applications
Wireless
Refrigeration
Monitors
54. MGM is a Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB)
SecurTRAK is on GSA Schedule
One Year FREE Onsite Parts & Labor
On-going structured and ad-hoc training to VA
staff
Maintenance contracts are available after the
warranty period – including full-time staff onsite
Since our first VA installation in 2002, we’ve
provided immediate response (max 1-hour) to all
VA calls for assistance (99.98% uptime)
55. 650 Grove Road, Suite 106
Paulsboro, NJ 08066
Ph: 856-853-5370
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