RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology provider PervasID, has announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Centre in St. John’s Innovation Centre which will showcase uses for RFID in the retail, healthcare and industrial sectors.

The Customer Experience Centre will be aimed at customers, partners, system integrators and prospects to demonstrate the system’s capabilities in real situations.

The centre will house all PervasID products, including its latest Multi-Ranger, which combines all PervasID systems, namely Space Ranger (wide-area passive RFID system) Security Ranger (anti-theft RFID system) and Portal Ranger (a doorway RFID system), into a multifunctional reader system.

PervasID’s Space Ranger & Portal Ranger products aims to address several issues faced by the healthcare industry. In a large hospital, equipment and patients can be difficult to find, especially if there is an emergency. The Customer Experience Centre will demonstrate how the system can track medical equipment - and even patients themselves who have a tagged band - within a hospital and contribute towards decreasing costs to hospitals by reducing equipment loss and over-leasing of goods. Additionally, healthcare professionals can see which equipment is in use at any one time and medical records can also be tagged.

Dr Sabesan Sithamparanathan, co-founder and CEO of PervasID, said: “The benefits of RFID technology in the healthcare sector are unsung. With mounting pressure on hospitals to cut costs, the loss of equipment and inefficient use of time can be a drain on resources. PervasID’s Customer Experience Centre aims to demonstrate the uses of the products in a realistic environment and prove ROI from the outset.

“We are really proud to be working on a technology that brings benefits to a variety of sectors, especially within healthcare, as the product not only reduces cost, but has the potential to improve the patient experience.”