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adams & weber GmbH and Ekahau Install a Location and Emergency Call System for Dementia Patients and Staff at Josef-Ecker-Stift in Neuwied
RESTON, Virginia, January 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
The adams & weber GmbH [http://www.awcomputer.de ] company, an experienced IT-system
house in the Rhine-Mosel region, collaborated with Ekahau, the worldwide leader in
Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS)
[http://www.ekahau.com/products/real-time-location-system/overview.html ], to install a
WLAN-based locating and emergency call system at Josef-Ecker-Stift, a senior-citizens home
and nursing facility in Neuwied, Germany. The system monitors the movements of the home's
residents and, whenever danger threatens, it enables the care staff to speedily intervene
and thus prevent accidents.
(Logo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120504/EkahauLogo )
Josef-Ecker-Stift in Neuwied places great importance on giving its residents - despite
their dementia -the privilege to move freely and independently throughout the building,
while simultaneously protecting them against potential accidents and dangers, for example,
falling in a stairwell. Josef-Ecker-Stift's director Siegfried Hartinger therefore sought
a location system that would assist the home's care staff with their work and speedily
notify them whenever danger threatens. He opted for Ekahau's RTLS Real-time Location
System. Ekahau collaborated with the adams & weber GmbH to install the emergency-call and
location system at Josef-Ecker-Stift toward the end of 2012.
The system monitors the movements of the home's residents and indicates the direction
in which each person is heading. It also monitors residents with limited mobility, for
example, people who rely on walkers. The system locates the Ekahau wristband tags which
the residents wear 24-hours a day, and continually notifies the care staff of each
resident's momentary location. This makes the caregivers' work easier because it
immediately notifies them whenever a resident approaches a danger zone, for example, a
stairwell, giving the staff ample time to come to the resident's assistance. It also helps
the staff avoid unnecessary footsteps because each caregiver knows exactly where in the
building he or she needs to go to find the resident who needs assistance. The location
system grants new freedoms to both the home's residents and their caregivers because staff
members no longer need to constantly keep an eye on dementia patients.
"We can strongly increase protection for our residents with the location system that
was collaboratively installed by the adams & weber GmbH and Ekahau. Our staff is very
satisfied with this system because it makes their daily work easier, helps them avoid
unnecessary walking and enables them to speedily provide assistance whenever an emergency
arises", said Siegfried Hartinger, Director of the nursing home.
Staff members are likewise equipped with Ekahau B4 Wi-Fi pagers, which they can use to
transmit an alarm from any location throughout the entire building. Previously, alarms
could be triggered only from individual, immobile, emergency switches. The new portable
pagers let staff trigger an alarm and summon a colleague without having to abandon a
resident and hasten to an emergency switch located elsewhere.
About adams & weber GmbH
Founded in 1992, adams & weber Gesellschaft fuer Kommunikationselektronik mbH numbers
among the most highly experienced IT-system houses in the Rhine-Mosel region, i.e. between
Koblenz, Trier and Bonn. Thirty employees, all of whom have earned certification in
various fields, have been working together for many years to assure the continued success
of this group of companies. a&w plans, analyzes and deploys network systems for private
industry and public administrations. From constructing a computer to implementing
large-scale IT solutions, nearly every IT-related task is part of a&w's daily business.
For more than 20 years, a&w's products and services have included security and data
protection, client and server solutions, periphery, mobile computing and Internet,
software solutions, merchandise management systems, storage and virtualizations,
enterprise WLAN and locating solutions, and document and workflow management. The
clientele of the a&w Group includes renowned and globally active enterprises; many of
these businesses are long-term and satisfied partners. The combination of strong resources
and loyal partners enables a&w to assure successful collaboration. a&w's clients include
SAGE, Microsoft, Sophos, VMware, Veeam, Dell, Oki, Aerohive, Ekahau, Epson, Barracuda and
many others. Further information is available at http://www.awcomputer.de.
About Ekahau Inc.
Ekahau Inc. is the performance leader in providing Wi-Fi-based Real-Time Location
Systems (RTLS). Ekahau RTLS includes Ekahau Vision(TM) and Ekahau RTLS Controller software
as well as a broad selection of Wi-Fi-based smart tags which give staff and managers
unprecedented visibility into the location, condition and status of assets, people and
workflows. Thousands of Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, and other facilities rely on
Ekahau's patented technology to reveal business intelligence that drives decision-making.
Ekahau partners include leading wireless software developers, systems integrators, and
WLAN providers. Learn more about Innovation Through Location at:
http://www.ekahau.com.
Photo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120504/EkahauLogo
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http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Ekahau Inc.
CONTACT: Contacts for Journalists: Susanne Sothmann / Caroline Hof Kafka Kommunikation GmbH &Co KG, +49(0)89-74-74-70-58-0, ssothmann@kafka-kommunikation.de, chof@kafka-kommunikation.de
adams & weber GmbH and Ekahau Install a Location and Emergency Call System for Dementia Patients and Staff at Josef-Ecker-Stift in Neuwied
RESTON, Virginia, January 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
The adams & weber GmbH [http://www.awcomputer.de ] company, an experienced IT-system
house in the Rhine-Mosel region, collaborated with Ekahau, the worldwide leader in
Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS)
[http://www.ekahau.com/products/real-time-location-system/overview.html ], to install a
WLAN-based locating and emergency call system at Josef-Ecker-Stift, a senior-citizens home
and nursing facility in Neuwied, Germany. The system monitors the movements of the home's
residents and, whenever danger threatens, it enables the care staff to speedily intervene
and thus prevent accidents.
(Logo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120504/EkahauLogo )
Josef-Ecker-Stift in Neuwied places great importance on giving its residents - despite
their dementia -the privilege to move freely and independently throughout the building,
while simultaneously protecting them against potential accidents and dangers, for example,
falling in a stairwell. Josef-Ecker-Stift's director Siegfried Hartinger therefore sought
a location system that would assist the home's care staff with their work and speedily
notify them whenever danger threatens. He opted for Ekahau's RTLS Real-time Location
System. Ekahau collaborated with the adams & weber GmbH to install the emergency-call and
location system at Josef-Ecker-Stift toward the end of 2012.
The system monitors the movements of the home's residents and indicates the direction
in which each person is heading. It also monitors residents with limited mobility, for
example, people who rely on walkers. The system locates the Ekahau wristband tags which
the residents wear 24-hours a day, and continually notifies the care staff of each
resident's momentary location. This makes the caregivers' work easier because it
immediately notifies them whenever a resident approaches a danger zone, for example, a
stairwell, giving the staff ample time to come to the resident's assistance. It also helps
the staff avoid unnecessary footsteps because each caregiver knows exactly where in the
building he or she needs to go to find the resident who needs assistance. The location
system grants new freedoms to both the home's residents and their caregivers because staff
members no longer need to constantly keep an eye on dementia patients.
"We can strongly increase protection for our residents with the location system that
was collaboratively installed by the adams & weber GmbH and Ekahau. Our staff is very
satisfied with this system because it makes their daily work easier, helps them avoid
unnecessary walking and enables them to speedily provide assistance whenever an emergency
arises", said Siegfried Hartinger, Director of the nursing home.
Staff members are likewise equipped with Ekahau B4 Wi-Fi pagers, which they can use to
transmit an alarm from any location throughout the entire building. Previously, alarms
could be triggered only from individual, immobile, emergency switches. The new portable
pagers let staff trigger an alarm and summon a colleague without having to abandon a
resident and hasten to an emergency switch located elsewhere.
About adams & weber GmbH
Founded in 1992, adams & weber Gesellschaft fuer Kommunikationselektronik mbH numbers
among the most highly experienced IT-system houses in the Rhine-Mosel region, i.e. between
Koblenz, Trier and Bonn. Thirty employees, all of whom have earned certification in
various fields, have been working together for many years to assure the continued success
of this group of companies. a&w plans, analyzes and deploys network systems for private
industry and public administrations. From constructing a computer to implementing
large-scale IT solutions, nearly every IT-related task is part of a&w's daily business.
For more than 20 years, a&w's products and services have included security and data
protection, client and server solutions, periphery, mobile computing and Internet,
software solutions, merchandise management systems, storage and virtualizations,
enterprise WLAN and locating solutions, and document and workflow management. The
clientele of the a&w Group includes renowned and globally active enterprises; many of
these businesses are long-term and satisfied partners. The combination of strong resources
and loyal partners enables a&w to assure successful collaboration. a&w's clients include
SAGE, Microsoft, Sophos, VMware, Veeam, Dell, Oki, Aerohive, Ekahau, Epson, Barracuda and
many others. Further information is available at http://www.awcomputer.de.
About Ekahau Inc.
Ekahau Inc. is the performance leader in providing Wi-Fi-based Real-Time Location
Systems (RTLS). Ekahau RTLS includes Ekahau Vision(TM) and Ekahau RTLS Controller software
as well as a broad selection of Wi-Fi-based smart tags which give staff and managers
unprecedented visibility into the location, condition and status of assets, people and
workflows. Thousands of Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, and other facilities rely on
Ekahau's patented technology to reveal business intelligence that drives decision-making.
Ekahau partners include leading wireless software developers, systems integrators, and
WLAN providers. Learn more about Innovation Through Location at:
http://www.ekahau.com.
Photo:
http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120504/EkahauLogo
Photo:http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120504/EkahauLogo
http://photoarchive.ap.org/
Ekahau Inc.
CONTACT: Contacts for Journalists: Susanne Sothmann / Caroline Hof Kafka Kommunikation GmbH &Co KG, +49(0)89-74-74-70-58-0, ssothmann@kafka-kommunikation.de, chof@kafka-kommunikation.de