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AVANTE PERSONNEL AND ASSET VISIBILITY SYSTEM FOR HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL CENTERS

Effective asset availability management is critical for the success of hospitals and medical centers. The ability to locate and utilize life-saving hospital equipment and medical assets is one of the key controls that may reduce overall medical care costs. Effective asset management starts with visibility by real-time tracking of important medical equipment and hospital assets.

How can AVANTE Real-Time Locating System and Personnel-Asset Visibility System benefit hospitals and medical centers?

Documented inventory and utilization of important and critical medical assets
Detailed control and utilization on leased and owned assets
Dramatically reduces manual tracking process and misplaced assets
Ability to associate asset and staff relationship from the arrival at dock to disposure

The principle and utility of this patented technology is simple to use and understand:

A miniature and low profile RFID ZONER™ tag with temperature, motion and other sensors is attached directly with tamper-destructive adhesive or seal onto each piece of equipment and asset to be monitored and tracked.
Staff and security personnel are encouraged to wear the RFID ZONER™ badges.
Each RFID ZONER™ tag transmits and communicates to the monitoring RTLS.
A grid of real-time locating RFID RELAYER™ readers is installed around the perimeter of the area to be protected.
Exception rules based on movement, position, temperature or other sensor data, and who among the authorized personnel is around are used to provide exception reporting in real-time. All data collected may be viewed in synchronization with the IP-video or other CCTV monitoring system.
The system provides alert and alarm well when removed out of operation zone as well as real-time locations of the assets within the monitored areas.
The RFID ZONER™ tag and RELAYER™ readers are self-monitoring for any tampering.

AVANTE NODAL & RTLS REAL-TIME VISIBILITY FOR CRITICAL MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND ASSETS WITH OPTIONAL VISIBILITY FOR STAFF AND PATIENTS
System Configuration	Function & Characteristics
1. ZONER™-ASID (Asset Tag)	* Place on each major piece of medical equipment * Place on critical hospital and medical assets * Beacon every 5 seconds to provide real-time location at all times * Sensors for real-time removal alert
2. RELAYER™-RTLS (For Forming a Real-Time Locating System)	* Real-time locating reader-monitor placed in 100 ft grid (4 to a typical data center) * Optional real-time locating reader-monitor placed in 100 ft grids throughout the facility * Received signal strength zoning to provide real-time location (patent-pending) * IP-based to provid visibility so that those need to know can be located anywhere
3. ACCESS-TRAKKER^® SOFTWARE	* IP-based access control and real-time locating software * Build on Microsoft .NET framework and SQL-Server database for easy web services interfacing with IP-based video and other systems
4. Installation and Verification	* Estimated costs for installing all reader-monitor units * Test and verification of system
5. ZONER™-GPID (Optional for General Personnel Badge)	* Personnel badges for employees * Secure passive RFID for access control + active RFID for personnel visibility * Beacon every second to provide nodal visibility at critical access points * On-demand and/or upon-command real-time zoning in case of emergency
6. ZONER™-SSID (Optional for Visitors & Security Personnel Badge)	/span> Badges for visitors and security personnel Secure passive RFID for access control + active RFID for personnel visibility * Beacon at low power signal strength every second to provide nodal visibility + high power every five seconds to provide RTLS positions * Real-time location of visitors for security management and safety for the security personnel
7. RELAYER™-Nodal (Optional to provide real-time visibility of “IN-OUT” status by monitoring all access points)	* Nodal access points monitoring of “in-and-out” activities to provide real-time visibility all tagged assets and personnel * Each access point is equipped with a pair of nodal reader-monitor to provide 100% accurate record of personnel and/or assets in or out of the facilities at anytime * IP-based to provide visibility for need-to-know reporting anywhere
TYPICAL HOSPITAL CRITICAL ASSETS RTLS MONITORING SYSTEM COST SCHEDULE:
TYPICAL CONFIGURATION		Costs
i. 300 ASID (For critical medical equipment & assets)		(Call for pricing)
ii. 12 RELAYER-RTLS (Monitoring system for 3 floors)		(Call for pricing)
iii. Software		(Call for pricing)
iv. Installation & Verification		(Call for pricing)
BASIC TOTAL SYSTEM COSTS		Less than $60,000
v. 300 GPID (For medical staff)		(Call for pricing)
vi. 50 SSID (For security staff)		(Call for pricing)
vii. 10 RELAYER-Nodal (Access Points)		(Call for pricing)
viii. Installation & Verification		(Call for pricing)
ADDITIONAL AND OPTIONAL SYSTEM COSTS		Less than $40,000
TOTAL FULL VISIBILITY SYSTEM COSTS		Less than $100,000