Retriever™ Garment Identification Expolink

Are you wasting time and expense tracking, identifying and matching clothes to your residents through lost or faded name tags? Are your residents and their relatives concerned after hearing that favourite clothes have been mislaid? Do they get upset when they see someone else wearing their clothes?

Research has shown that laundry is a key issue for over 60% of residents as their clothes are the most important personal belongings that they can bring into the care home. An efficient laundry has a direct impact on the perception of residents, visitors and staff, and is often used by potential residents' families to assess the overall quality of care provided. Residents must be cared for with dignity and respect and so should their personal belongings, in particular their clothes.

Introducing Retriever™ - your answer to accurate garment identification

Our revolutionary solution is designed to immediately identify garments in the laundry process enabling them to be returned to their rightful owners. Laundry proof smart buttons are attached to each garment and scanned by a handheld reader to give you instant details of who it belongs to and their room number. Retriever™ gives you detailed reporting functionality allowing you to search by resident, room, date and to prepare inventories of belongings.

What makes Retriever garment identification the right solution for your home?

The design of the garment transponder (smart button) is unique and has a number of essential performance factors:

A low frequency transponder completely unaffected by wet or harsh conditions unlike high or ultra-high frequency technology
The transponder inside the garment smart button's unique housing is bio-glass encapsulated with an IP68 rating which means it is impervious to water ingress unlike resin or plastic encapsulated transponders which will fail over a fairly short period of time
Read only technology was a fundamental requirement to remove the unreliable data problems associated with programmable transponders where members of staff can add, remove or alter information
The transponders are manufactured in a totally automated ISO 9001 facility which provides unmatched levels of performance and reliability
A 5 year warranty on the smart button

Benefits of Retriever to care-home owners, residents and their relatives alike:

For care home owners

Improved level of service to residents
Immediate data availability
Promotes good standards of hygiene
Lower insurance premiums due to reduced litigation & compensation claims
Time efficient
Fewer complaints by residents and their relatives
Gives you a competitive advantage
Ability to report on and produce an inventory of residents' possessions
Gives complete control over laundry process
More efficient use of water, electricity and laundry time
Provides support of your involvement with Dignity in Care initiatives

For care home staff

Frees up time to care for residents
Fewer upset residents and relatives
Eliminates unidentified items stored in laundry rooms
Less time spent sorting clothes
Easy to use and stress free

For the residents & their relatives

Confidence & peace of mind that their clothes will be returned
Prevents unnecessary emotional impact through loss of possessions
Improves standards of hygiene reducing the spread of infections
Enhanced service
Prevents loss of clothes and provides a record of their personal belongings
Retriever returns dignity to the resident (no more institutionalised degrading written name tags)