Care
Philipp-Nicolai-Haus
Replacing existing nurse call installation
The Philipp-Nicolai-Haus in Marl (Germany), part of the Ev. Johanneswerk GmbH, offers a new home for old people and people in need of care of all levels of care.
The residents live together with twelve people in eight residential units. In multi-professional teams, a high degree of flexibility and quality in care and support is offered, in specialized apartments support and care for people with dementia and people with high somatic care needs is made available.
Challenge
- Replacement of existing German brand nursecall, reusing optimally the available infrastructure, including the local MSG Server and Fire Alarm system. All with great respect for the high care residents and including dementia and somatic care solutions.
Solution
- The local MSG Server was recovered by integrating the iCall nursecall solutions directly into this server. All available old cabling was reused. All-in combination with wired nursecall and wireless solutions for dementia. Via iCall LB-displays, the fire alarm was integrated towards the individual end-points.
Result
- The home has now enabled dwellers to switch on room lighting via the new nursecall solution, silent anti-runaway solutions work flawlessly and the efficiency of staff was raised.
Philipp-Nicolai-Haus
(Germany)
Location
2020
Year of Renovation
80
Number of beds
4
Number of sites
Techniklotsen GmBh
System integrator
Challenge
Essec Group, the mother company of IndigoCare International, has been a system integrator of nurse call, notification systems and telecom since 1977. Its first own development in 1998 was the Netrix Notification gateway, integrating all nurse call and alarm systems towards paging-, mobile-, and dect-handsets. Netrix is in todays version one of the most flexible notification systems available on the market. IndigoCare has always moved ahead in new applications to improve staff efficiency.
Solution
In 2005, no nurse call manufacturer was moving ahead in new applications so we decided to create our own nurse call system: iCall, a complete healthcare communication solution based on the open IP-standard and fit to use on old nurse call cabling infrastructure, according to the German VDE standard. With a specific EU range for the EMEA region as well as a UL range for the Americas. The first system being installed in 2007. We were able to start from scratch: no history of old product ranges or old components. With a lot of IP experience coming from the world of Ethernet we developed a complete new approach in nurse call with a distributed architecture based on pure IP. Therefore, we are literally the inventors of Full IP nursecall.
Result
With the experience of old hospital facilities and long term care homes lacking the infrastructure to deploy IP-to-the-room we designed a very specific LocalBus able to re-use old wiring for retrofitting. In more than 99,3% of the cases iCall is able to run its Local Bus over the old cable infrastructure where any other nurse call system requires to replace the existing wiring. During the last decade, lots of new products were added to the iCall range to serve the different needs in the different countries, and new product lines were introduced to serve new verticals like prisons, hotels, etc. Furthermore, additional and fully integrated product ranges are added to the portfolio like Access Control and Noviway wayfinding solutions. Today, IndigoCare is present in 48 countries worldwide and counting.
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