BEDFORD, Mass.-PinPoint Corp. unveiled 3D-iD, its real-time wireless asset-tracking and personnel-management system using location techniques similar to those used by the global positioning system satellite network.
PinPoint’s 3D-iD network is a local positioning system combining both hardware and software that leverages the customer’s existing computer network to continuously locate, track and secure valuable assets and people throughout the facility.
The system uses radio-frequency tags that communicate wirelessly with the 3D-iD antennas and cell controllers.
“Every day our hospital faces the need to find valuable health-care equipment in a time-sensitive manner,” according to John Schlingheyde, vice president of hospital operations at the Tisch Hospital of the Mount Sinai/NYU Medical Center Health System, a 600-bed hospital that is a pilot installation site for 3D-iD.
“Early trials of 3D-iD at Tisch indicate that we will be able to significantly reduce the time it takes us to find critical equipment, thus improving hospital efficiency and our level of patient satisfaction and care,” Schlingheyde said.
