Case Study on Sharda Hospital, Surat

Sharda Hospital, Surat

Sharda Hospital, a state-of-the-art multi superspeciality hospital, offers medical care at par the global excellence. Equipped with all modern facilities and sophisticated equipment, Sharda Hospital provides global comprehensive healthcare as preferred destination of healthcare. It’s highly qualified and experienced medical professionals offer best in class expert care to the patients round-the-clock. Sharda Hospital offers broad spectrum of medical services from tertiary care, superspecialities, general specialities, advanced diagnostic & radiology services to critical care. Pertaining to the growing demand and increasing popularity of Ayurveda, they have also established a ‘Panchakarma Centre’ at Sharda Hospital to provide massage therapies of high and positive prognostic value to the diseases that are considered to be medically unmanageable.

The goal of Sharda Hospital was to achieve globally accepted standards as they even serve international patients. Not just in terms of facilitating patients with a good treatment/advanced technology but they strongly emphasized on safety and security. The hospital aimed to ensure that everyone concerned with the staff to the patients understand the requirements of fire safety in order to ensure optimum safety for all who are present in the building. They aimed to focus on life and property safety. Sharda hospital wanted a solution that could match its required standards. They aimed to opt for a future ready addressable system that could pin point the exact location of fire as hospitals are a sensitive place. The installation must not involve any changes to the newly constructed building’s architecture.

The Challenges of Sharda Hospital before NFire

Sharda Hospital is a multistorey building. So, wiring will involve a lot of civil work. Also, the lengthy wiring was estimated to be 5 times the total cost of the system. It was clear that Sharda hospital needed completely wireless devices. The fact that the hospital is air conditioned makes it more vulnerable by trapping heat/smoke, making it difficult to detect and evacuate. In case of fire or emergency situation saving lives is the primary objective. Special care for non-ambulant patients is a must in case of accidental emergencies. Multiple ongoing activities at the same time, can’t be interrupted even for emergencies, such as surgeries or operations. There are a lot of utilities that can lead to fire in hospitals. ECG machines and MRI scanners can generate a lot of heat. Overheating of the machinery from ECG or MRI scanners, can cause short circuit or even the wires could start to melt, further leading to smoke and then to fire. In case a patient who is not healthy enough to walk or call for help, terrorist attacks or in any sort of emergency, alerting and dedicated evacuation is important. Sharda Hospital was looking for such a solution that could do no damage to the building whilst protecting it.
The Sharda Hospital wanted to know the remote location in case of emergency so the necessary steps could be taken quickly. One of the requirements of Sharda Hospital was to have early detection so the key stakeholders can contribute to life and property safety. Major design considerations for Sharda Hospital were safety, technical leverage, highly reliable system that could last longer with low maintenance and installation cost.
The consultant was given this task to find a solution that satisfied Sharda Hospital’s requirements completely. After analyzing the necessities, he recommended NFire Solution to Sharda Hospital as the perfect fit. NFire Solution is an ideal solution as it is highly scalable, cost effective and highly reliable. A site survey was conducted for Sharda Hospital by NFire Team.

Solution

NFire Solution is a smart integrated incidence management system. It minimizes complexities to increase the speed of communication. NFire Solution was implemented at Sharda Hospital. NFire provides the hospital with centralized monitoring by NFire Emergency Monitoring Service Centre as per their requirements.

The site survey was conducted by NFire Team. Sharda Hospital believes that the site survey was the most valuable part of this project as it gave them confidence on the recommendation of NFire by the consultant. Working with NFire Team on the site survey put into perspective that this process should be every hospital’s standard. They believe that NFire Team highlighted the risks/threats and assured NFire’s seamless functioning. A total of 30 smoke sensors and 9 MCPs were installed at the Sharda Hospital. NFire is a customizable solution with easy installation and minimal downtime. It causes no damage to the existing structure and saves a major cost compared to any conventional or wired addressable systems. NFire solution also brings other unique features like 24×7 monitoring, advance integration with IoT, Cloud computing, Mobile technology and communication technology. It is an easily upgradable future proof technology system for next generation smart fire stations. NFire feasibly reduces operational complexity and increases the incident response speed. It is highly stable, robust and built as per UL/BIS/NFPA specifications. Along with the live emergency monitoring service, notifications are sent via live call and SMS by NFire team of highly trained monitoring officers. NFire connect app makes it easy to access NFire alarm system from anywhere.

Benefits to Sharda Hospital

NFire has proved to be an ideal solution for Sharda Hospital. The hospital precisely experienced minimal cost for safeguarding their premises and their people. There was no lengthy wiring or masonry work which saved a lot of cost with fast installation. Live monitoring with pin point location of fire through an app is provided to the hospital as demanded. The system is cloud integrated, IoT operational and AI enabled with integrated communications. NFire Solution ultimately ensures that the building was safe and operational. Moreover, Sharda Hospital was able to achieve higher Returns of Investment (ROI) while experiencing minimal Total Cost of Investment (TCO) with the help of NFire Solution.

More about NFire

NFire is the revolutionary wireless addressable fire alarm system, designed and manufactured in India. Manufactured with the highest quality European standards our NFire range is one of the most advanced Fire Detection Systems currently available in the market. NFire is marketed in India by Atigo Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. Growing at a fast pace, Atigo is one of the leading electronic security and safety solutions provider in India. NFire conforms to US-NFPA-10th Edition Specifications and is certified with CE, ROHS and ISO 9001-2005.
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