HEALTHCARE ESTATES 2020 SHOWCASE


No shortage of innovation evident in challenging year


Had everything been ‘as normal’, and had the UK – and the exhibition and conference sector particularly – not been significantly impacted by the coronavirus, this month would have seen healthcare estates and healthcare engineering professionals from throughout the UK, and also from many countries overseas, descend on Manchester Central in sizeable numbers for the 2020 Healthcare Estates conference and exhibition. With social distancing requirements, and the inherent difficulties these would have created for Step Exhibitions, the event’s organisers, in managing visitor flow and meeting exhibitor and delegate expectations, while simultaneously keeping everybody safe, it was understandably felt that there was no option but to defer this year’s flagship IHEEM event. Next year’s Healthcare Estates conference, exhibition, and dinner are, however, already very much in the planning, with the event set to take place from 19-20 October 2021, again at Manchester Central. (see www.healthcare- estates.com for details)


While many healthcare estates management and healthcare engineering personnel, and those from the associated construction and supply chain – all of whom view Healthcare Estates as a great annual opportunity to share news and experience, find out more about the latest products and services, and simply to ‘network’ and renew acquaintances – will be disappointed not to be heading to Manchester Central this year, IHEEM and Step Exhibitions are running a special


The annual Healthcare Estates exhibition – held at Manchester Central in recent years – is always packed with visitors keen to see some of the latest innovation on show.


programme of webinars on topical subjects, entitled ‘Digital Week’, from 5-9 October, the week in which this year’s show would have taken place, which should have wide-ranging appeal. You can read more about ‘Digital Week’ on page 8 of this issue of HEJ.


The annual Healthcare Estates show, long-established and undoubtedly recognised as the leading yearly event for the healthcare estates community, also has a key role in affording manufactures and suppliers of a wide range of products, technologies, and services, the chance to get their offerings in front of potential purchasers. With this in mind, and with no IHEEM annual exhibition where they can


A better sense of temperature


The evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) water temperature monitoring system technology, such as LinkThru from Cistermiser, is, the company says, helping to improve patient safety and estate efficiency, and ‘offers the potential to save the healthcare sector millions of pounds every year’.


Cistermiser’s latest innovation is an operating system comprising physical hardware connected to a cloud-based IoT portal. “LinkThru TMU delivers automatic wireless monitoring, providing users with real-time temperature readings on their computer screen in


order to track and monitor hot and cold water temperatures in pipework systems,” the company explained.


Each connected ‘black box’ temperature monitoring unit is retrofittable, and will fit onto washbasin pipework, any pipe with an access point, behind a panel, under a sink, on a sluice, or by a boiler, powered by a lithium metal cell battery with a 3-5 year lifespan.


A LinkThru TMU takes a reading every 10 seconds, and then sends temperature and flow event data to the ‘cloud’ hourly. Recorded data includes maximum, minimum, and average temperatures.


do this face-to-face this year, in the following pages we present a snapshot of some of the most interesting new and existing products – ranging from plumbing components designed to enhance hygiene and safety, to hi-tech theatre lighting – on which exhibitors have recently supplied information. We hope you will find the information presented a useful read, and may, in the process, learn about products and services – a number of which you may not have heard or read about to date – which could enhance efficiency of your estate, benefit the healthcare buildings and associated plant and equipment you operate and maintain, and increase patient, visitor, and staff safety.


The sensor also records flow events, such as taps being turned on. The data readings are analysed by inbuilt software, batched, and sent up back to the cloud, and thence to the user interface, e.g. a phone, tablet, or PC.


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