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Tyco security products secure residents of Turkish nursing home with Elpas RTLS technology

Through the Elpas Real Time Location System for assisted living facilities, distress calls from residents and staff at the Or Yom Nursing Home in Istanbul can be easily monitored and addressed.


Heathrow, UK, 13 Nov 2015

Tyco Security Products, part of Tyco, the world's largest pure-play fire protection and security company, announced the Or Yom Nursing Home in Istanbul, Turkey, is now using the Elpas Real Time Location System (RTLS) for the facility's 130 residents and 20 staff members.

Working with integrator Sigmamed, residents were issued Elpas healthcare positioning tags that serve as an active RFID transmitter. The tags work in conjunction with readers installed throughout the two buildings - one existing and one newly constructed building - that encompass the facility, which opened in 2004. Residents' RFID tags are monitored via computers at three nurse's stations within Or Yom Nursing Home.

Fact sheet
Solution: Elpas Real Time Location System
Industry: Assisted living, healthcare
Provider: Tyco Security Products
User: Or Yom Nursing Home

"With the deployment of the Elpas RTLS wireless nurse call solution, residents and staff alike now have the assurance that distress calls will be handled quickly and efficiently throughout the premises," said Michael Wasserstein, General Manager, Elpas, Tyco Security Products. "The flexibility of the system allows it to be easily deployed in new construction and existing facilities that are being expanded or upgraded."

The comprehensive, multi-featured system allows the nursing staff to monitor distress calls from residents and determine their location via a positioning system; receive calls on mobile phones or via the easy-to-use Eiris Go mobile application if they are away from the nurse's station; and cancel alarms once a staff member has responded to a resident's call. The Elpas RTLS also provides staff members with the ability to send their own distress call or request additional help through the activation of a Code Blue button-on badge.

Data from the system is recorded as well, so the nursing home can measure response times and track which staff member responded to a specific event.

For more information about Elpas and the RTLS solution, visit elpas.com.

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Sigmamed

Sigmamed is the distributor of Elpas since 2012, with many systems installed all over Turkey. Sigmamed is offering RTLS systems to hospitals, elder care facilities, factories, museums and hotels. Baby security products become necessary for the qualified hospitals first with Sigmamed in Turkey. In all of its fields of operation, its solution and quality focused approach and its personnel, which are fully equipped in their subjects, have enabled the products it represents to have a much larger share in the Turkish market.

Elpas

Elpas is part of the Security Products business unit of Tyco, the world's largest pure-play fire protection and security company. Elpas is a global provider of scalable passive and active RFID/RTLS safety, security and visibility solutions designed to meet the needs of healthcare, government, commercial, institutional and industrial sectors. Elpas delivers a complete line of real-time location-based security solutions that help enhance individual safety, reduce property shrinkage, streamline operational workflows, protect the vulnerable, lessen negligence litigation and facilitate industry guideline compliance. Elpas currently serves customers throughout the Americas, the UK, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit www.elpas.com.

Tyco Security Products

Tyco Security Products and its leading brands conduct business in over 177 countries around the world, in multiple languages, and employs over 2,800 employees globally, including research and development, marketing, manufacturing, sales, service and logistics teams in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific. Our products, built by developers from all product disciplines, consistently allow customers to see more, do more, and save more across multiple industries and segments including healthcare, government, transportation, finance, retail, commercial and residential. Worldwide, Tyco Security Products helps protect 42% of Fortune 500 companies, transportation systems on five continents, 37% of the world's top 100 retailers, over two million commercial enterprises, thousands of students in more than 900 educational facilities, and over five million private residences.

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Eclipse Media Group
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