Norada and Abeeway join strengths to reinforce senior care communities in North America through LoRaWAN®

Press Release, Paris, France – June 2021

Norada, a vertical solutions provider operating in Canada and the US, which has recently joined Actility’s Channel Partners network, is supporting staff in Senior Care communities in North America by providing them with Abeeway Micro Trackers using LoRaWAN network technology to help mitigate their hyper-constrained staff resources.

Many senior care communities suffer from strained staff. Workers find themselves under a lot of pressure and need to find ways to automate small tasks in order to save as much time as possible to be able to reinvest it in quality time for their patients. Norada decided to work on a solution which would provide staff with a seconds set of eyes, allowing them to focus on the high value work they were trained to do.

The solution, which uses Abeeway trackers, allows to precisely locate staff, residents, and equipment, even if they are out of the community boundaries. This is possible due to the LoRaWAN connectivity which the tracking devices are using, allowing to cover hundreds of square kilometers. The solution also allows workers to know when anyone dwells, enters, exits, or is unexpectedly absent from an area.

• Ease the fear and anxiety of not knowing what is going on when responsible for the safety of others: alert when anyone dwells, enters, exits, or is absent unexpectedly from an area.
  
  
• Create actionable data: provides data visualization and analytics on the history of data collected, like heat maps and data-driven insights, to guide the best course of action.
  
  
• Know whether a service was completed: reduce documentation time by using smart sensors to automatically track when an area has been serviced and monitor the ongoing service intervals.

Norada’s solution also addresses other purposes by helping staff to know when an area has been serviced or is being serviced, minimizing lost time by redoing already completed work. It also provides data visualization and analytics on the collected data’s history, like heat maps and data-driven insights. This allows staff to study and create the best course of action, also minimizing time waste and reinvesting gained time on the community members.