VT announces the immediate availability of its enhanced Elpas Quad-Tech Personal Badge.

With its distinctive photo-ID form factor, the Elpas Quad-Tech Personal Badge is a hybrid Active – Passive Tag that provides wireless real-time visability of workers that may be at-risk of workplace related attacks or injuries.

In addition the Quad-Tech Badge also enables simultaneous RTLS/Access Control interoperability by:

• Enabling supervised wireless RTLS (Real-Time Locating System) staff location visibility down to sub-room level accuracy with duress call signaling for workers that may be at-risk of workplace related attacks or injuries in designated areas or throughout the facility

• Working as a standard proximity ID key with most legacy access control building systems when freedom of movement for high-value employees is needed

• Permitting hands-free door operation at specific building locations

• Adding Elpas RTLS safety, security and visibility applications to access control installations when an extra level of protection is required for high-value employees.

Traditionally, access control systems are used to monitor and restrict building access and for time and attendance applications. Elpas RTLS safety security and visibility solutions add staff location visibility in situations where an employee is at risk. The individual simply presses their Quad-Tech Personal Badge’s call-button to discreetly summon help. The Elpas RTLS layer instantaneously informs the appropriate responders as to the identity of the individual and the precise sub-room location of the unfolding emergency. Security personnel are provided with the real-time whereabouts of the tagged individuals graphically overlaid onto the relevant floor plans. Automated location alerts can also be delivered 24hrs-a-day to specific security responders as to the location and safety status of the protected individual.

The Quad-Tech Badge also supports real-time near exit location detection for administrating staff/patient/guest escort procedures in addition to triggering near-exit security alert response protocols.

The Elpas Quad-Tech Personal Badge complements VT's growing portfolio of application specific Active RFID Tags. Investments in RTLS/Access Control interoperability can also be leveraged to support other Elpas Safety, Security and Visibility Solutions such as wireless real-time temperature monitoring, real-time asset location awareness and staff flow optimization as well as integration with management and building security systems.

Contact your VT sales or professional services representative for details.

Researchers at
the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) have selected Elpas RTLS for a pilot study of personal hygiene
behavior in the home. Elpas will be used to determine whether real-time
location data will be able to unobtrusively provide accurate information about
an individual's every day hygiene activities over extended periods of time. 

The selected Elpas RTLS Hygiene Monitoring Solution
combines Active RFID Wrist and Asset Tags, RF Tracking Readers and LF Exciters to
accurately define sub-room areas such as bathroom sinks, toilets and showers. The
tags when worn by the participants and attached to various home hygiene objects
such as toothpaste and soap dispensers will enable researchers to infer
behavior practices based on the simultaneous co-location of the participant and
the tagged hygiene objects.

 Elpas was selected from other competing RTLS systems due to its ability
to identify key behaviors of multiple people within a household, by locating
people and objects to small zones within rooms," says Robert Aunger, the
senior researcher at LSTHM leading the study. "It also has the advantage of having tags with a long battery life
(to avoid the need to interact with participants on a regular basis to change
batteries), ability to access the data remotely, and being relatively cost
effective compared to other options."

 The Elpas RTLS Hygiene Monitoring Solution will
provide behavioral measurement reports relating to the daily hygiene activities
(such as hand washing, bathing, toilet usage, oral hygiene and vitamin
ingestion by family member, location and time). "We intend to use this
system to investigate ways to promote healthy habits as a way to achieving
sustainable improvements to health related behaviors," says Gaby Judah,
the postgraduate student at LSHTM who will be implementing the project.

Visonic Technologies today announces the
appointment of Mr. Stan Getz as Regional Sales Manager for the Western United
States as well as the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. In
his new capacity, Mr. Getz will be responsible for the promotion, sale and
support of VT's Active RFID/RTLS Safety, Security and Visibility Solutions to
VT's network of resellers, system integrators and end users. While primarily
focusing on acute healthcare, Mr. Getz will also support VT's marketing and
sales strategies of Elpas RTLS and SpiderAlert Emergency Signaling Solutions into
assisted living facilities, museums, prisons and intelligent building
environments.

 “Mr. Getz’s 20 years of success in the areas of
clinical and operational healthcare solutions for acute healthcare facilities,
combined with his extensive relationships in the Western United Sates is of
great value to Visonic Technologies,” said Harry Murray, President - VT
Americas. “Stan has been a pioneering force in the selling of real time
location system-enabled workflow automation systems into the high acuity areas
of Surgical Services Emergency Departments and other inpatient areas as well as
location-enabled software solutions for asset tracking, hand hygiene and
temperature monitoring”.

 Before joining Visonic Technologies, Mr. Getz
recently served as a Regional Sales VP at Intelligent InSites. His background
also includes extensive western regional sales management experience with
Patient Care Technology Systems (PCTS).

 Mr. Getz currently resides in Los Angeles
with his wife and their 11 year old daughter, Samantha.