3. AeroScout Background
Company Overview Industry Recognition
VC funded– private; Founded in 2000
Cisco Systems
Intel Capital
Based in Redwood City, CA
Global presence in North America,
EMEA, APAC and LATAM
Market leader in Unified Asset
Visibility
Focused on fast growing Active RFID
market
Service a diverse set variety of
industries
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4. AeroScout Background
Market Leadership Product Leadership
• Over 150 Healthcare customers Only company with full
• Variety of hospital wide visibility range of visibility solutions fit
applications for all environments and use cases.
“…an impressively complete, scalable
system” Information Week, 2007
Broad Ecosystem High Profile Customers
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6. Challenges
Hospitals often lose 15% or more of their assets each year
Asset utilization rates average 35-40% in hospitals, while
equipment search times may average 30 minutes per piece
Up to 50% of the time a biomedical engineer finds a piece of
equipment for maintenance it is in use or scheduled for use and
cannot be taken
A hospital with 300 refrigerators and freezers, with each unit
checked three times per day at five minutes per check would cost
a hospital over $1.3 million in labor each year
Annual hospital inventory management can take one FTE 25% of
the year to complete
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7. Unified Asset Visibility in Healtcare
Complete Asset, To automate
and optimize
Patient & Staff
hospital
Visibility processes
Location Improve quality of
Over standard care
Wi-Fi networks Increase safety
Status Reduce costs
In use Improve regulatory
compliance
Condition
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9. Asset Management
Par level management
Order management
Inventory and rental management
Asset utilization
Theft and loss prevention
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10. Asset Management
Hospital wide map views,
intuitive search capability
Inventory and utilization
reports
Par level dashboards
Automated alerts
Integration to ordering and
materials management
systems
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11. Equipment Maintenance
Equipment cannot be located on
time leading to non compliance
with regulatory requirements
Valuable staff time spent on
searching for assets due for PM
Asset’s availability is unknown
Recall management requires
immediate action
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12. Equipment Maintenance
Real-time location updates
in biomed system
Pop-up map view directly from
biomed system
3D view of assets
distributed throughout the
campus
Search for groups of work
orders or individual assets
Business status visibility
(available, soiled, clean,
reserved)
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13. Temperature/Humidity Monitoring
Temperature Monitoring
Blood, drugs, vaccines, food and tissue samples in refrigerators and
freezers require maintaining daily records
Humidity Monitoring
Poor humidity levels in OR’s, patient and storage rooms can cause
bacteria, fungus, mites, asthma, respiratory infections and chemical
interactions
Nursing, Lab, Pharmacy and Dietary staff perform manual
temperature and humidity monitoring and logging each day
Logging mechanisms are unreliable (lost data, gaps in data) and often
expensive
Labor is utilized inefficiently
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15. Patient & Staff Safety
No effective way to determine the
location of medical emergencies that
occur out-of-room
Hospital staff may often work with
patients that pose a risk to staff
At-risk patients (Trauma, behavioral
health, Alzheimer, elderly, etc.)
wandering and elopement
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16. Patient & Staff Safety
AeroScout call button tags worn by
patients or staff send alerts along with
location to staff and security personnel
Integration to VOIP phones, security systems
(e.g. cameras, doors), nurse call
Live tracking and historical path of
wandering patients
Chokepoints at exits from
department/building and
entrances to restricted areas
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17. Benefits Across the Hospital
Direct Benefits
and ROI
Reduced Capital & Regulatory Improved
Increase Revenues
Operational Expenses Compliance Quality of Care
Reduce purchase Increase regulatory Reduced safety Increased patient
of new equipment compliance rates incidents throughput
Reduce rental Reduce staff time Reduced wait times Increased capacity
costs spent on manual Increased staff time of critical
Reduce shrinkage searching, logging with patients departments
Staff efficiency and monitoring (OR/ER)
procedures Increased staff
productivity
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19. Using Wi-Fi for Visibility
Traditional Infrastructures: Wi-Fi based Infrastructure:
Each piece of asset information The existing WLAN is the visibility
requires a dedicated network. network, often without the need
Single-purpose Active RFID for additional hardware.
readers, wireless sensors, etc.
add unnecessary hardware.
+ Data Services + Data Services
+ Voice Services + Voice Services
+ Visibility Services + Visibility Services
+ Overhead, wiring, support
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21. How Does it Work?
1. Wi-Fi-Based Active RFID tags send a tiny wireless 802.11 signal at a regular
interval
Tag’s messages consume less than 1/2msec, tags do not associate with Wi-Fi access
points and do not require thousands of IP addresses
2. Signal is received by the Wi-Fi access points, and is sent to a Location Engine
3. The Location Engine determines the tag’s location, and sends it to the visibility
software
4. Visibility software uses location data to display maps and reports, enable
searches, create alerts, manage assets, etc.
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22. Tag Features
Long battery life (up to 4 years)
Replaceable battery
Call buttons
T3 Tags
Sensors
Motion, Temperature, Humidity
Custom
Telemetry
Serial connectivity to medical devices for
retrieval of operational status
Tamper-proof and water proof
Multiple mounting options and form T2 Tags
factors
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23. AeroScout MobileView
MobileView is a web-based business software application that
acts as both an end-user application, and a platform for
integration and development.
Track Alert Manage Integrate
…current and …automated alerting and …the utilization of …location and status
historical location notification (pump leaving equipment, control information to existing
of medical devices a protected zone, overdue the workflow and hospital applications
and people, from a for maintenance, requiring utilize location data (asset mgmt, ORIS, EMR,
Web interface delivery, etc.) for operational etc.)
analysis
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24. Unified Asset Visibility in Healthcare
Wi-Fi-Based RFID – Pervasive hospital wide visibility
Chokepoints – workflow automation (Room and bay level separation), immediate
safety and theft alerts
Sensors – Temperature and humidity monitoring (Drugs, vaccines, tissues, blood, food, etc.)
Passive RFID – specimen tracking, OR small equipment and trays
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25. Summary
Leading the market for Unified Asset Visibility in healthcare
Best of Largest
Broadest Proven
Breed Global
Ecosystem Enterprise
Solution Customer
Success
Base
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