International. Emerson and HID Global, an identity and access control solutions company, announced a strategic collaboration to enhance monitoring capabilities that help healthcare providers ensure the right temperature for vaccines, medicines and other biospecies.
To ensure product integrity, ensuring the quality and safety of vaccines, medications, and other health care samples require strict temperature control and monitoring. The solution combines Emerson's expertise in environmental monitoring and the behind-the-scenes cooling network known as the cold chain with HID Global's broad spectrum of connected health systems and Bluvision-enabled Internet of Things solutions. This collaboration provides world-class monitoring solutions for the healthcare industry.
"Helping our customers monitor and improve safety and health is a cornerstone of our business and mission, and we are proud to offer these solutions to the industry," said John Rhodes, group president of the cold chain for Emerson's Commercial and Residential Solutions business. "This strategic partnership allows Emerson to extend our detection and connected technologies to help healthcare providers optimize their operations and protect their life-saving treatments."
The innovative solution combines automatic alerts, audit trails, condition monitoring and location services for a more advanced approach to medical grade temperature monitoring using Internet of Things technologies. Leveraging HID's Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE)-based location and condition monitoring network services, the solution offers widespread connectivity across the enterprise, linking active personnel badges with vibration and temperature sensors to enable rapid and cost-effective scale deployments.
"The combination of HID's BLE network with Emerson's environmental monitoring sensors brings together best-in-class products to help healthcare providers monitor temperature-sensitive assets as part of an IoT stack that healthcare institutions can easily integrate into existing workflows," said Rom Eizenberg, Vice President at Bluvision, part of HID Global. "Hospitals can rapidly increase patient safety, quality of care and pharmacy workflows, while enabling more advanced capabilities such as building Health System Digital Twins to predict, model and extract additional efficiencies."
HID Healthcare IoT's collective expertise and Emerson's environmental monitoring for the healthcare chain of custody provides exponential value beyond industry-common certified temperature monitors by combining machine, person and material traceability into end-to-end solutions to a critical problem.
