Vision appliance keeps track of surgical tools
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Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jun 21, 2005
A health-industry-specific automatic identification appliance, the Piati-STI, is the latest addition to the comprehensive PIATI family of ECC200 data matrix decoder solutions.
The Value Engineering Alliance, a leading provider of machine vision solutions, announces the addition of a health-industry-specific automatic identification appliance, the Piati-STI, to its comprehensive Piati family of ECC200 data matrix decoder solutions.
The Piati-STI was developed specifically to read ECC200 data matrix codes laser marked on medical/dental tools and instruments in accordance with HIBCC (Health Industry Business Communication Council) specifications.
The Piati-STI is housed in a compact (130 x 84 x 132mm), IP54 protection class, anodised aluminium enclosure that meets specified hygiene standards.
It is a fan-free, foolproof, plug and play appliance that uses customised built-in white LED illumination to generate the high quality image data that its embedded digital signal processor analyses to produce accurate and repeatable decoding results.
A conventional 15-pin connector allows images, system status and decoding results to be displayed on standard analogue VGA monitors.
The decoding results are sent directly to PCs or electronic data processing systems via an RS232 serial communications interface.
The Piati-STI is most commonly used to facilitate the identification and tracking of surgical tools and instruments.
It can record all of the items in a surgical kit, before and after an operation, to ensure that none are left inside a patient.
It can also check the records of patients who contract diseases following surgery to determine which instruments were used on them and confirm that those instruments passed properly through the sterilisation process.
The general need for decoders of this type is growing as more hospitals and clinics employ the services of external organisations that specialise in sterilisation.
Companies providing such services must be able to track the items which they receive in order to ensure that they get returned to the appropriate parties.
The Piati-STI is one of the application/industry-specific appliances in the Piati (place it and trace it) suite of data matrix decoding software and systems that is available from The Value Engineering Alliance.
The product suite also includes fully integrated general-purpose products and robust data matrix decoding software that is supplied in a library function format.
This format facilitates the integration of code reading into automation solutions or vision application development and implementation environments that include other application-specific software such as OCR, OCV, test, precision registration/alignment, or inspection modules.
The library also enables organisations and individuals who are so inclined to roll their own code readers.
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