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Automated Carrier Tracking & Delivery Verification
Using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology within a pneumatic tube system permits automatic carrier tracking, monitoring, and inventory management. RFID technology gives users real-time verification that patient-critical tube system transactions have arrived at the right station at the right time.
Benefits
- Monitors carrier transport – verifies end-to-end carrier transport
- Assigns carrier destination – segregates carriers for designated payloads to reduce risk of exposure
- Automates carrier inventory counts and redistribution
- Separates carriers for specific transactions to reduce cross-contamination
- Requires no extra processing steps and supports productivity and user compliance
- Provides capability to assign carrier home location
How It Works
- RFID tags are embedded in each carrier; available for 4-inch and
6-inch systems and as an upgrade to other manufacturers’ systems - Carrier RFID tags are programmed with a unique ID number
- Tube stations are equipped with receivers that read the tags on dispatch, arrival, and interchange points
- Destinations can be disallowed for specific carrier IDs to support segregation based on hospital protocols
- System automatically captures carrier ID as part of each
transaction record.
Card Access Security
The WhoTube® card access system provides best-practice security for pneumatic tube system station transactions using employee badges or identification cards for credentialing. To receive a secure transaction, the user must present a valid access card to release the carrier into the station bin. The WhoTube system also works to unlock station access doors.
Benefits
- Records sender or receiver information with each transaction
- Allows sending capability for approved users only
- Receives updates from facility security system to keep authorizations current
- Supports proximity card technologies for automated credentialing
- Installs on current and legacy TransLogic tube systems
- Controls automated user verification for station access doors
How it Works
- Card reader is installed on station for user authentication
- Authorized user swipes badge to access station, then selects “Badge Secure Transaction” on station menu
- Transaction is processed and user ID is captured and stored as part of the transaction record
- Station automatically re-locks if another transaction is not initiated within
20 seconds
Station Access Security
Station access doors provide controlled physical access to recessed tube stations, offering added safety and security for system transactions. These doors are secured by an electromagnetic lock, allowing only authorized personnel access to the contents of the station interior.
Benefits
- Controls access to station contents in public or semipublic areas
- Provides visibility to items in the receiving bin through a large, clear window
- Self-closing and auto-locking
- Installs on 4-inch and 6-inch TransLogic pneumatic tube system stations, as well as other vendor’s stations
- Integrates with all generations of TransLogic tube system control panels
- Addresses HIPAA concerns by increasing security and patient privacy
- Supports the WhoTube® card access system for user authentication
How It Works
- User swipes badge (using card access system) or enters PIN to open door
- Door unlocks to grant access to station bin
- Door automatically locks upon closure
Alert Messaging
The alert messaging solution provides automatic communication for key pneumatic tube system transport events and system alarms. Alert messaging functionality increases user productivity, improves system maintenance, and reduces the potential for system downtime by automatically notifying specific users of carrier arrivals at their station, and sending alarm descriptions, including equipment ID to selected facilities maintenance personnel.
Benefits
- Provides email notifications for important and immediate system and equipment events
- Notifications including:
- Vault alerts
- Carrier arrival
- Communications
- Maintenance issues
- Equipment failures
- System interruptions
How It Works
- System is configured for notification
- Specific alert types are assigned to defined user groups for certain events
- Notifications are sent automatically according to user settings
Secure Carrier Storage
The tube system vault provides secure carrier storage above the
destination station. The vault allows users to continue to send and receive carriers from a station while a secure transaction is awaiting pick-up by an authorized recipient.
Benefits
- Stores carriers at a secure location in the system near the receiving station for fast, secure retrieval
- Allows station to remain in use for other inbound and outbound transactions until designated recipient has retrieved the secure carrier
- Controls delivery to intended recipient, avoiding the practice of removing a secure transaction to simply allow station use
How It Works
- A new secure tube is installed in the system near the target station(s), to accommodate pending secure transactions
- The system will notify the authorized recipient that a secure transaction has arrived in the vault
- When the authorized recipient accesses the station panel, the carrier is delivered into the station bin
- System automatically returns an unaccessed carrier back to the sender after a user-specified time
Variable Speed Technology
The variable speed solution allows users to select slow speed transport to improve content handling and high-speed empty carrier distribution for improved system efficiency. Variable speed software works in tandem with the variable frequency drive hardware to ensure sensitive payloads are protected with slower speed carrier transport.
Benefits
- Allows users to send sensitive items at slow speed (15% slower than normal speed) for gentle handling
- Slow-speed transactions can be selected by users at time of dispatch or pre-programmed as a favorite for a specific destination
- Empty carrier distribution can be configured for high-speed transport, reducing impact on system for non-payload transactions
System Requirements for Software
- Recommended that system control center is running the most current version of TransLogic software on an approved server
- High-speed Ethernet (or network) drop with internet access for both primary and secondary system control centers
Station Noise Reduction Kit
The Whisper Kit™ receiving system reduces noise that occurs when a carrier arrives at a pneumatic tube system station, providing a quiet environment, decreased stress, enhanced staff concentration and a better patient experience. This kit is available as an upgrade to legacy systems or as standard factory-installed equipment on new TransLogic standard 6-inch and 4-inch stations.
Stations equipped with the Whisper Receiving System are noticeably quieter than other tube system stations. In a controlled test environment, carrier delivery to a station upgraded with a Whisper Kit was 12-14 dB quieter than a station equipped with a molded ramp and bin.
Benefits
- Installs quickly and easily by hospital maintenance personnel or a TransLogic service technician
- Reduces noise associated with carrier landing in the receiving bin significantly, allowing stations to be located in noise-sensitive areas such as nursing, NICU, ICU, etc.
- Softens carrier arrival, resulting in improved protection and product integrity for sensitive items
- Features removable landing cushion for easy cleaning, resulting in shortened station downtime if a spill occurs
How It Works
- An energy-absorbing carrier receiving ramp made of a padded, liquid-resistant nylon reduces the carrier speed as it arrives at the station
- An impact-absorbing receiving cushion made of similar material absorbs the shock of the carrier arrival in the station bin
- Receiving bin liner helps to contain accidental spills
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