Elsi Smart Floor

Achieve peace of mind like never before with the Elsi Smart Floor Monitoring System fall detection device.

A state-of-the-art intelligent flooring solution, the Elsi Monitoring System is a one-of-a-kind proven way to reduce falls and improve safety in care environments. Ideal for those in senior care and people with mobility issues, the Elsi system provides security and reliability when you need it most.

Installing the Elsi Smart Floor monitoring system is quick & easy, and maintenance is a breeze making it ideal for any care environment. Various alarms and notifications are available to be activated according to the user’s individual needs on the Elsi User Interface.

Description

Elsi Smart Floor – More Than Just a Fall Detection Device

The Elsi Smart Floor fall prevention device from HLS Healthcare will ensure that your nurses and doctors can keep track of residents and ensure they’re always in the right place at the right time.

Simply install your new flooring and set up the appropriate notifications and alarms for your care environment. The Elsi User Interface is simple and straightforward, with different criteria for individual residents, nurses, and special time zones. You can relay notifications directly to your Nurse Call system, DECT or Smartphones throughout your organisation.

Discover an incredible level of care today with the Elsi Smart Floor Monitoring System. If you would like to discover more about Elsi our team at HLS Healthcare is happy to answer any product related questions you may have.

HLS Healthcare

Quality Standards Assessment
Elsi Smart Floor

Umbrella Solutions has assessed Elsi Smart Floor against the Aged Care Quality Standards. The Aligned assessments assist aged care providers to understand how products are aligned to the Quality Standards which supports their audit and accreditation responses.

Assessment Date: 24/07/2020

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Elsi Smart Floor

	Requirement	Response Elsi Smart Floor	Response NurseCare
3a	Each consumer is treated with dignity and respect, with their identity, culture and diversity valued.	Elsi Smart Floor provides non invasive monitoring to protect dignity of consumers. The monitoring improves independence and reduces risks.	NurseCare supports the consumers by providing carers and staff with up to date information and preferences as well as care history.
3d	Each consumer is supported to take risks to enable them to live the best life they can.	Elsi Smart Floor enables consumers to move freely around the room, without intrusive sensors, cabling or mats. This helps to empower them to move more, knowing that help is available if they fall.
3f	Information provided to each consumer is current, accurate and timely, and communicated in a way that is clear, easy to understand and enables them to exercise choice.	Elsi Smart Floor does not use videos or pictures to identify movements and incident, protecting the privacy of consumers.	Consumers' personal information is secured and only relevant information is made available to appropriate staff.

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	Requirement	Response Elsi Smart Floor	Response NurseCare
3a	Assessment and planning, including consideration of risks to the consumer’s health and well being, informs the delivery of safe and effective care and services.	Elsi Smart Floor provides data that can help identify mobility trends which can be used to enhance care plans and services.
3d	The outcomes of assessment and planning are effectively communicated to the consumer and documented in a care and services plan that is readily available to the consumer, and where care and services are provided.		Consumer care plans can be made available in the NurseCare system and are made available to carers and staff to ensure a consistent and personalised level of care.

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	Requirement	Response Elsi Smart Floor	Response NurseCare
3a	Each consumer gets safe and effective personal care, clinical care, or both personal care and clinical care, that: i) is best practice; and ii) is tailored to their needs; and iii) optimises their health and well being	Elsi Smart Floor offers best practice for in room, non invasive monitoring and alerting.	NurseCare offers best practice for consumer personal and clinical care with its in room management solutions and connectivity to key clinical care systems.
3b	Effective management of high impact or high prevalence risks associated with the care of each consumer.	.Elsi Smart Floor provides non invasive monitoring to protect dignity of consumers. The monitoring improves independence and reduces risks through instant alerting.	Current consumer health records are made available through the NurseCare system, provider carers and staff with up to date information and changes
3c	The needs, goals and preferences of consumers nearing the end of life are recognised and addressed, their comfort maximised and their dignity preserved.		Consumer care plans can be made available in the NurseCare system and are made available to carers and staff to ensure a consistent and personalised level of care.
3d	Deterioration or change of a consumer’s mental health, cognitive or physical function, capacity or condition is recognised and responded to in a timely manner	Elsi Smart Floor can monitoring and trends can help to identify physical capacity issues of consumers and provide information to proactively manage care solutions.	Current consumer health records are made available through the NurseCare system, provider carers and staff with up to date information and changes.
3e	Information about the consumer’s condition, needs and preferences is documented and communicated within the organisation, and with others where responsibility for care is shared.		Consumer care plans can be made available in the NurseCare system and are made available to carers and staff to ensure a consistent and personalised level of care.

Elsi Smart Floor

	Requirement	Response Elsi Smart Floor	Response NurseCare
3a	Each consumer gets safe and effective services and supports for daily living that meet the consumer’s needs, goals and preferences and optimise their independence, health, well being and quality of life.	Elsi Smart Floor provides non invasive monitoring to protect dignity of consumers. The monitoring improves independence and reduces risks through instant alerting.	Consumer care plans can be made available in the NurseCare system and are made available to carers and staff to ensure a consistent and personalised level of care.
3d	Information about the consumer’s condition, needs and preferences is communicated within the organisation, and with others where responsibility for care is shared.	Elsi Smart Floor information can be integrated to NurseCare to ensure critical data and alerts are available to appropriate staff.	Consumer care plans can be made available in the NurseCare system and are made available to carers and staff to ensure a consistent and personalised level of care.
3g	Where equipment is provided, it is safe, suitable, clean and well maintained.	Elsi Smart Floor reduces the need for additional monitoring solutions, such as pressure mats which introduce tripping hazards.	NurseCare uses unobtrusive devices that are wall mounted or wireless to reduce hazards.

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	Requirement	Response Elsi Smart Floor	Response NurseCare
3b	The service environment: (i) is safe, clean, well maintained and comfortable; and (ii) enables consumers to move freely, both indoors and outdoors.	Elsi Smart Floor replaces traditional flooring solutions and reduces the need for pressure mats, cabling or visible sensors which enhances mobility of consumers	NurseCare uses unobtrusive devices that are wall mounted or wireless to reduce hazards.
3c	Furniture, fittings and equipment are safe, clean, well maintained and suitable for the consumer.	Elsi Smart Floor reduces the need for additional monitoring solutions, such as pressure mats which introduce tripping hazards.	NurseCare uses unobtrusive devices that are wall mounted or wireless to reduce hazards.

Elsi Smart Floor

Requirement

Response Elsi Smart Floor

Response NurseCare

Consumers, their family, friends, carers and others are encouraged and supported to provide feedback and make complaints.

"NurseCare allows consumers, family and friends to provide feedback, complaints and commendations through its INFO Point interface. The results are recorder centrally to be reviewed and addressed by the provider. Having a mechanism that is not reliant on in person communication helps to illicit open and candid feedback for the provider."

Elsi Smart Floor

	Requirement	Response Elsi Smart Floor	Response NurseCare
3a	The workforce is planned to enable, and the number and mix of members of the workforce deployed enables, the delivery and management of safe and quality care and service.	Elsi Smart Floor monitoring data can be used to enhance the care of consumers and reduce manual logging and recording of data by staff.	NurseCare monitor staff activities which can be used to manage performance and workloads.
3d	The workforce is recruited, trained, equipped and supported to deliver the outcomes required by these standards.	Elsi Smart Floor reduces effort to maintenance documentation and workload for staff.	NurseCare reduces effort to maintenance documentation and workload for staff.

Elsi Smart Floor

	Requirement	Response Elsi Smart Floor	Response NurseCare
3c	Effective organisation wide governance systems relating to the following: (i) information management (ii) continuous improvement (iii) financial governance (iv) workforce governance, including the assignment of clear responsibilities and accountabilities (v) regulatory compliance (vi) feedback and complaints.		NurseCare offers providers valuable data and information for regulatory compliance reporting and records. This includes: Response timeframes Call frequency and volumes Call types Staffing levels Medicine and clinical service tracking and history
3d	Effective risk management systems and practices, including but not limited to the following: (i) managing high impact or high prevalence risks associated with the care of consumers (ii) identifying and responding to abuse and neglect of consumers (iii) supporting consumers to live the best life they can.	Elsi Smart Floor offers best practice for in room, non invasive monitoring and alerting. This system helps to reduce operational and consumer risks in the care environment.	NurseCare offers best practice for consumer personal and clinical care with its in room management solutions and connectivity to key clinical care systems. This system helps to reduce operational and consumer risks in the care environment.

Learn More About Available Options

For further information or to discuss available options, please feel free to get in touch with the HLS Healthcare team by calling 1300 931 893 or filling out the contact form below. Our product specialists will be more than happy to assist you.

Supporting Next-Level Care

Elsi Smart Floor helps the right nurses to be at the right place at the right time

Possible fall notification
Out of bed notification
Irregular activity notification

Out of bed notification
Bathroom visit notification
Unusual activity alarm

Room exit notification
Room entered notification
Intruder notification

Star Dang

Facility manager, Horton House

Featured Testimonial

The smart sensor floor system has been effective in assisting clinical staff to monitor and prevent falls and critical incidents. The system allows for real-time tracking of residents movements and is fit for purpose in providing quality reliable data that can be used to trend and assist with analysis and preventative planning.

Elsi smart floor has been integral in mitigating potential risks. I would highly recommend for all residential aged care facilities to have this system in place as it is not only cost-effective and user-friendly but also a great in that it provides privacy and dignity for the residents whilst still keeping them safe.

See the Elsi Smart Floor in Action

Elsi Smart Floor sets a whole new level of standard in aged care

The Village by Scalabrini

Through a unique partnership with HLS Healthcare, Hansen Yuncken & Scalabrini Aged Care Village – a residential aged care community located in New South Wales is setting a new standard when it comes to the use of technology in aged care settings.

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Horton House at Gordon

Executive management and product specialists from HLS Healthcare worked with the Twilight Aged Care team to design, commission and implement Horton House in Gordon; a wonderful homelike environment in a modern aged care setting.

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Frequently Asked Questions

HLS Healthcare answers common queries about the Elsi Smart Floor

Falls & security are front of mind for most aged care and nursing home facilities. Often the challenge lies in how carers can be everywhere at once and whilst establishing a level of security for themselves and their residents. The Elsi Smart Floor is a valuable piece of technology for any facility looking to solve these problems.

How does the Elsi Smart Floor work?

Fall prevention

The Elsi Smart Floor solution is based on the idea of fall prevention, utilising a series of proactive alarm notifications. This allows nurses or care providers to be in the right place and time. Without invading the residents privacy, the system is able to provide complete transparency over such situations.

Real-life example

George is an aged care resident living in room 302. At 2:00 am on a Tuesday morning, a notification comes to the carer desk that alerts them to George has fallen in his room near the front door. The carer team is made aware of this through an alert that is automatically sent to their mobile devices by the Smart Floor technology platform. The alert is classified as a fall due to the sharp spike in pressure that was captured by one of the Smart Tiles that make up the overall smart floor.

Once the carers are made aware of the incident, they can mobilise faster and respond sooner to the fall, resulting in quicker care provision and potentially saving a life. What’s more, there are data logs that can be reviewed after-the-fact. These data logs can show the exact resident location throughout a given day, which can be highly valuable when determining what is happening within resident rooms at all hours of the day.

Besides fall detection, what else can the Elsi Smart Floor detect?

Information regarding the residents’ activity level & general health
Residents’ activity levels throughout the day
Unusual behavioral patterns

What does the finished product look like?

Protected by a top floor layer such as carpet, Elsi Smart Floor is invisible — allowing any room or environment to look like a normal home.

Are there studies of the overall effectiveness and cost savings of the system?

Aalto University conducted a study between 2006 and 2010 on the benefits of Elsi Smart Floor. Not only were there cost savings in all related areas, but feedback from nurses and residents were very positive.

The study concluded that the aged care facility with Elsi installed was perceived as a more attractive working place by nurses because it allowed them to use their time more effectively, allowing them to focus more on the residents.

Is the technology actively being used in the Australian aged care facilities?

Yes, in fact, the success of the Elsi Smart Floor was recently mentioned in the Australian Ageing Agenda magazine regarding its installation at Scalabrini Aged Care Village.

Scalabrini is known as one of Australia’s premium quality age care providers. The facility has earned multiple international and domestic awards and is now enjoying positive press from major news outlets, including Channel 9.

Does the Elsi Smart Floor infringe privacy?

For the residents of aged care facilities, there is absolutely no infringement on their privacy, and therefore there are no apologies to make or reasons to provide as to why unsightly equipment is positioned throughout the living area. In fact, most aged care residents are unaware that the system is in place at all. It truly is that seamless.