Healthcare

The Evolving Healthcare Sector: Optimising Building Management

The healthcare industry is undergoing constant evolution, driven by technological advancements, increasing service demands, and growing patient populations. As a result, healthcare organisations are expanding their campuses and buildings, which presents a new challenge of managing and maintaining various systems, including security, safety, and comfort. This challenge is particularly daunting due to the critical nature of healthcare operations and the requirement for 24/7 availability.

Hospitals, care centres, research labs, and other healthcare institutions rely on extensive infrastructure to support their daily operations. These systems include parking facilities, building security, HVAC, lighting, elevators, power metering, fire detection systems, sprinklers, and public address systems. While each system serves a specific purpose, they must work together seamlessly to ensure a safe and comfortable environment for patients, staff, and visitors.

The safety and security systems that can be integrated into Sky-Walker include:

-     Parking facilities

-     Building security

-     HVAC

-     Lighting

-     Elevators

-     Power metering

-     Fire detection systems

-     Sprinklers

-     Public address systems

The Need for a Central Management Platform in Healthcare

Given the complexity and interdependence of healthcare operations and the multitude of systems involved, it is essential for healthcare organisations to have a central management platform that integrates all their digital and analogue systems. Entelec's Sky-Walker Open Integration Platform offers a robust solution for this challenge. With Sky-Walker, healthcare organisations can integrate all their systems into one powerful and intuitive interface that can be quickly mastered.

By consolidating all systems onto a single platform, healthcare organisations can streamline their monitoring and response to events and alarms, simplifying the management of security and safety risks. For example, in a typical hospital campus, visitors and employees arrive at different parking areas that require varying forms of access control. By integrating badge and license plate recognition systems into Sky-Walker, the flow of people and vehicles through these areas can be efficiently and securely managed.

Centralise all types of systems, even the nurse call alarms.

Specific benefits when using the Sky-Walker Open Integration Platform

Sky-Walker's benefits extend beyond the integration of multiple systems onto a single platform. With this solution, healthcare organisations can gain complete control over their building systems, including cameras, access control, heating, motion detectors, lifts, and more. This level of control enables departments to be quickly closed after use, resulting in cost savings by minimising unnecessary energy consumption.

The visual and intuitive overview provided by Sky-Walker enables employees to quickly adopt the system without the need to learn different interfaces. This ensures smooth transitions between shifts or holiday periods. In case of an emergency, the platform can provide clear workflows for quick and safe responses. Additionally, Sky-Walker offers pre-programmed actions through a customisable menu, enabling swift and effective responses to specific scenarios.

With Sky-Walker, healthcare organisations can also track the secure transport of medicines in real-time through GIS integration, ensuring nothing falls into the wrong hands. This application can be extended to ambulance services, enhancing the overall safety and security of the healthcare organisation.

The reporting system offered by Sky-Walker provides a comprehensive overview of all stored reports in central databases, making it easy for management to identify areas of concern such as energy use, security hazards, and more. With Sky-Walker's web-based solutions, the central workstation can be extended to multiple buildings and sites, even across the globe, allowing for efficient and effective management of all building systems.