WAS The Smart Check: Controlling the equipment of rescue vehicles by RFID technology

The WAS Smart Check system accelerates and simplifies the control of the equipment to be located in an ambulance or a special vehicle, in ZARGES boxes or in a vehicle emergency backpack considerably. Instead of checking the whole equipment manually, this time-consuming work can now be done much faster and nearly automatically by means of radio waves. An emergency medical backpack can so be checked within 1 to 2 minutes without even having opened it.

To do this, medical consumables such as gauze bandages or medical equipment are fitted with RFID chips which communicate with a handheld tool. Within very short, this intuitively operated tool signals wether the equipment is complete or not. Important parameters such as an exceeded expiration date of a medical consumable, of a maintenance interval for a medical device or the correct allocation to the vehicle are transmitted, too. The system works online and offline, synchronizing and recording the data, so that both rescuers and the fleet management are regularly informed about the actual situation.

In resuming, the WAS Smart Check is a double win for the rescuers: they have more time for their proper work and they have more safety regarding the availability of their material.