A room pressure monitor is a device that monitors and measures the pressure of a given space in reference to another space. This value is called "differential pressure."

Room pressure monitors are used in "critical spaces" where contamination must be avoided. Critical spaces include hospital rooms, isolation rooms, operating rooms, cleanrooms, pharmaceutical manufacturing areas, vivariums, and data centers.

Some critical spaces such as data centers require monitoring more than just pressure to keep equipment running at peak performance. Pharmaceutical plants and other involved manufacturing facilities typically need to control the humidity, temperature, and particle counts of their spaces. Finally, a growing body of research is showing that hospitals can reduce infections by monitoring additional room parameters beyond just differential pressure.

Founded in 1967, Setra Systems, Inc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of pressure, acceleration, and weight sensing devices. Setra has devoted its engineering and research efforts to the development of transducers and systems based on the highly accurate variable capacitive transduction principle. Setra’s founders, Dr. Y.T. Li and Dr. S.Y. Lee, are Professors Emeritus of Engineering at MIT and the co–developers of the variable capacitance transduction principle, the innovative force sensing technology which is the heart of Setra’s products. Setra is ANSI–ASQ History Image ISO 9001:2008 certified through our registrar, National Quality Assurance (NQA). This prestigious certification requires Setra to maintain a documented quality system to ensure customer satisfaction through controlled design, manufacturing, and employee training programs. Setra Technology Park owned by Setra Systems, Inc., is located on a scenic 23 acre site in Boxborough, Massachusetts. Setra’s building is approximately 100,000 square feet and houses the executive offices, sales offices, and manufacturing facilities. In addition, Setra has additional manufacturing capacity in China at our wholly owned subsidiary, Danaher Sensors and Controls.

Aiva puts Amazon Echos, Google Homes and other voice assistants into hospital rooms and hooks them up to caregiver mobile apps and other smart devices. Patients get more entertainment options, better control of their environment and closer communication with their care teams. Caregivers get to do the jobs they're meant to do. And administrators get better staff efficiency, real-time performance reporting and a dashboard to manage their growing IoT footprint. We also integrate with existing systems, such as EHRs and messaging systems.

Aiva is the voice OS for better care. Our clients include Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and BayCare Health, and our investors include Amazon and Google. Aiva expands your Digital Doorway, giving patients at home hands-free access to: - Get urgent care wait times and reserve a spot. - Check and change appointment times. - Receive notifications of messages from doctors and labs. In an acute setting, Aiva powers the Hospital Room of the Future, giving patients more entertainment, better control and closer communication with their care team: - Aiva understands patient requests and triages them to the mobile device of the most appropriate caregiver -- e.g., medication to an RN, bathroom visits to a CNA, food straight to the kitchen. - Nurses only receive requests meant for them -- allowing them to avoid distractions and practice up to their license -- and they can respond instantly in their own voice. - Patients and nurses can control other devices in the room hands-free, including TVs, lights and thermostats, and monitoring devices like bed sensors can trigger immediate voice and staff workflows. - Administrators use Aiva’s dashboard to manage workflows, publish voice content and analyze performance.

It's not difficult for health care systems to create their own skills, but the challenges are in scaling.  Aiva's admin tool allows you to centrally control thousands of voice assistants and connect them with related smart devices (like smart TVs and lights) -- like an MDM for all your IoT.  You also use the tool to manage your content, workflows and events.