Distributed Antenna System (DAS) Helps Monitor, Archives and Report Key Temperatures
Aurora CO, USA — An automated wireless temperature monitoring system for hospitals to wirelessly monitor the temperature of laboratory, pharmacy, blood bank, and dietary refrigerators and freezers is becoming more widely in demand from hospitals and other healthcare facilities for better loss prevention and regulatory compliance.
Monitoring hundreds of refrigerators throughout a medical facility can only be achieved wirelessly because pulling wires as with a traditional wired system will not only be too costly, but practically impossible.
Hospitals and medical facilities are under increased scrutiny by JCAHO, CAP, DHS and other regulatory bodies to fully document medication, food, blood and laboratory sample storage temperatures and corrective actions taken in case of a temperature deviation.
Sensors can be placed inside or outside the refrigerators, and the temperature data is typically transmitted every 15 minutes to repeaters or ether base access points, and ultimately relayed to a central computer server.
Users on any hospital computer can view the temperature data and be immediately notified by email or other messaging system if a temperature alert situation occurs.
Regulations typically require the data to be archived for 3 years, but the CheckPoint system can keep the data almost indefinitely.
In the brand new Children’s Hospital building in Aurora, Colorado USA, the CheckPoint wireless system by TempSys, consisting of approximately 450 sensors, has been installed.
This installation is different from any other system to date in that through the technical collaboration of CheckPoint and Mobile Access, the wireless sensors can communicate directly to the Distributed Antenna System (DAS).
An installation of this size typically requires about 60 repeaters deployed throughout the building, but the DAS completely eliminates the need of repeaters. Mobile Access can deliver any mix of wireless services over a single, broadband infrastructure to anywhere in the building.
The CheckPoint system at Children’s Hospital with a DAS interface has been installed without the use of a single repeater, dramatically reducing total cost and time of installation.
Moreover, the user can now easily add new temperature sensors in the future anywhere in the hospital without any concern for wireless connectivity.
For more information and to view a video, visit www.checkpointwireless.com
