MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — TeleTracking
Technologies’ RadarFind real-time locating
distributed sensor network now includes temperature measurement
that is NIST traceable and meets College of American Pathologist
requirements with new temperature sensors certified to be
waterproof and dustproof for hospital facilities. Monitoring
accuracy is further assured even in potentially damaging
environmental conditions to extend RadarFind’s advanced sensor
capabilities beyond most other RFID and Real Time Location Systems
(RTLS).
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Hospitals leverage the temperature-sensing features of the
system to wirelessly monitor refrigerators and freezers containing
medications, blood and tissue samples, as well as other medical
devices that warrant continuous temperature monitoring. The
small cube-like temperature sensor tags are placed inside cooling
or warming units without the need for a fragile external probe or
connected wire. Real-time temperature data is continuously
transmitted through the sensor network and reported via any
web-based computer connected to the hospital’s intranet.
“We are committed to harnessing the full power of our
sensor-network based RTLS to monitor environmental conditions and
the contextual status of various items, including temperature,”
said Steve Jackson, chief technology officer for RadarFind. “Now we
offer hospitals and other health-care facilities another level of
security by ensuring that the network reliably reports the
temperature of critical medications and tissues even in the event
that they come into contact with water or dust.”
In addition to locating medical devices and patients,
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