The CardiLink IoT solution enables AEDs to provide flawless, up-to-the-minute documentation of their activity which extends throughout their entire life cycle - from the production phase, across the AED’s lifespan, and through to its eventual decommissioning.
In so doing, the CardiLink solution ensures AEDs always function and identifies and records malfunctions and other challenges encountered by any given AED model, making the data immediately available to manufacturers and service providers.
The information gleaned in this manner leads to the breaking down of technical and knowledge barriers between AED manufacturers, and between every link in the AED supply chain, from manufacturers, to distributors, through to end users for more transparency and efficiency.
CardiLink is an instrument for distributors and service partners that enables them to manage both customers and devices from different manufacturers in a single, self-contained tool, rendering service processes - including RMA (Return Merchandise Authorisation) - easily manageable.
In the future, the CardiLink solution will be extended to further health and safety devices.
The CardiLink IoT solution provides AED manufacturers with technical device readiness information from remote locations anywhere in the world on a continuously updated basis. Such technical information includes:
Battery life information
Geographical location of the unit, including any deviation from its designated location
Additional service information
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The CardiLinkcommunication module is independent from the AED unit it is monitoring. Encapsulated in its own casing, the module’s power source is a battery used solely for powering that module. The battery is located inside the module’s casing.
The module is comprised of chipsets for cellular communication (LTE, 2G backfall), GPS and a sensor that detects any deviation from the AED’s designated location. The GPS default setting activates when the motion sensor detects any such deviation.
For installation, the CardiLink communication module is simply placed next to the AED device, which enables it to access the latter’s technical status details. There is no physical connection between the module and the device. As such, the installation of the module does not interfere with the AED.
The CardiLink module uses mobile and/ or wifi networks to transmit data to the CardiCloud software platform. The platform is an AED device management tool which collects device data, validates it, documents the device’s life cycle, provides geo-information, and offers optional IoT-based 24/7 monitoring to manufacturers, distributors and service partners, end-users, and first aid responders.