Elsi® Smart Floor Improves Healthcare and Living
Cost savings
Less works shifts are needed
Care homes where Elsi® Smart Floor has been installed the care givers can focus to the most important tasks, rather than constantly checking if residents are ok. Regarding to this the need for night shift staffing, has been decreased.
Reduced sick leaves as well as temporary staff
Elsi® Smart Floor is improving the well being at work. The stress level is low due to the better information about the residents. That has a direct correlation to reduced sick leaves and need of temporary staff.
Proven to reduce falls
After a 4 year pilot and independent study of Elsi® Smart Floor by the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare, Elsi was shown to reduce falls in the elderly by as much as 97% at certain times of the day by providing staff with an early warning of the movement of an at risk resident.
The correct daily activities and right sleeping rhythm diminished the use of medicine
No need for the previous amount of sleeping pills, depressants and psychosis.
Taking the residents to bathroom on time, reduces laundry
Elsi® Smart Floor tracks the bathroom visits automatically and knows when resident is leaving the bed. Both informations help nurses to time their support and react to needs.
Better security feeling leads to improved safety
More tranquillity of the residents and better work environment for the care givers.
Activating residents with Elsi® Smart Floor generates to fewer bed patients
It’s prooven that residents are more active when they have the confident that somebody will help them in case of a need.
ROI 12-18 months
Main savings comes from: residents better health, avoided falls, less staff, reduced medicine and laundry costs. Elsi® Smart Floor solution does not wear or tear anything, so the effective usage of time can be over 10 years. That has been proven during the long history that we have. Detail ROI can be calculated separately in each Elsi® Smart Floor case.
Wellbeing
Dedicated to the wellbeing of the elderly. Strong resident centric approach
Residents does not need to change their living or behaviour anyway. They do not need to wear a device or charge batteries and no cameras needed. Privacy and safety is designed to be in balance.
Alerts to nurses or caregivers of resident’s daily activity
Elsi® Smart Floor can indicate possible falls, room entry, bed and apartment exit detection.
Proven track record with over 10 years of experience
Elsi® Smart Floor is the first system to successfully use capacitive technology to track the movement and position of a human body within a room. With over a decade of experience and more than 3000 rooms/apartments installed around the world, we are the most experienced provider of Smart Floor Technology.
Automatically identify and alert staff to abnormal resident behaviour (i.e. abnormally high WC visits)
With the latest version of the Elsi User Interface, you have the ability to set thresholds for what is normal behaviour for a particular resident and be alerted if the resident behaviour changes from this.
Warning on abnormally long time spent in the WC
A setting can be activated to create an alert should a resident spend an abnormally long tie in the bathroom and may require assistance.
Balcony exit/entry warning
Residents that go out and take fresh air, can be prolonged over the set time after Elsi® Smart Floor can give an alarm.
Sends alert when unusual behaviour occurs. Immediate reaction can be made to support the resident
Resident usually follow their daily patterns. If there is a clear deviation from that Elsi® Smart Floor can give an alarm to care givers. For example if there is less or more activity than normally at toilet visits or time spent in bed.
High degree of customisation
Every room can be completely customised to meet the needs of the individual resident simply and easily through the Elsi UI.
Dedicated real-time ward monitoring terminals
Terminals can be set at the nurse’s station for real-time monitoring of residents.
Historical activity including playback
Extensive Reports are available through the Elsi UI including the ability to play back an event to aid in investigating adverse incidents or reported incidents.
Technical
Non mechanical capacitive sensing system
Elsi® Smart Floor works on capacitive sensing technology just like your touchscreen. It is not reliant upon pressure or moving parts and therefore has a very long lifetime. Furniture does not affect the Elsi® Smart Floor functionality.
Electronics accessible for easy maintenance
The electronic components of Elsi are housed and protected within a discreet skirting conduit which means that in future solution upgrades or in the the event of failure, the component can quickly and easily be replaced with virtually no disruption to the resident or facility.
Can integrate with any nurse call system, new or existing
Elsi can integrate with your preferred Nurse Call system easily and seamlessly.
Installable beneath all types of flooring
Elsi® Smart Floor technology can be installed beneath any flooring material including Carpet, Vinyl, Tiles and Parquetry.
Supports customer floor plans. Room/apartment does not need to be rectangular shape
The top floors can be changed during th eyears of use of Elsi® Smart Floor. If there is a mechanical damage caused to sensor laminates only parts of the room sensors can be replaced.
Wiring and electronics require installation within skirting board
No defective electronics during 10 years of experience.