How it started
A decade ago, the director of a nursing home approached us with a problem. His residents were regularly losing their dentures, and he was spending thousands of dollars on replacements and dealing with angry families. We started a project to develop a system that would eliminate denture loss in nursing homes, and after a couple of years of research, antenna design, and testing, Scandent was born.
Where we are
Since our launch, Scandent has been expanded to protect hearing aids, eyeglasses, wallets, cell phones, clothing, wheelchairs, and various electronic and medical devices. We have also developed wristbands for wander management so that nursing homes can ensure the safety of their Memory Care residents, protect residents’ personal items, and secure their own assets with one integrated system.
Where we’re going
Scandent is now deployed in over 40 nursing homes and healthcare facilities across the country, from New York to North Dakota, and from Arkansas to Idaho. We are continuously striving to improve our system and develop new and better tags for all types of items and devices found in nursing homes. As we did at the start, we aspire to help all nursing home residents live happier and healthier lives.
SCANDENT NEWS AND MEDIA
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Bruce McCandless Upgrades to Scandent for Wander Management
Florence, Colo. - December 4, 2025 - Bruce McCandless has upgraded its wander management to Scandent, replacing a previous system by adding 12 new Scandent checkpoints at key exits to safeguard memory care residents. The expansion builds on the facility's existing use of Scandent for loss prevention. A proud member of the Eden Alternative registry, Bruce McCandless is a 105-bed facility that serves veterans, their spouses, and Gold Star families with skilled nursing, short-term rehabilitation, and memory care. |
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North Dakota's Smallest Nursing Home Deploys Scandent
Richardton, N.D. - November 17, 2025 - Richardton Health Center has deployed Scandent to safeguard essential resident devices and property. A checkpoint installed in the facility's service hallway will scan for dentures, hearing aids, eyeglasses, remote controls, wallets, cell phones, iPads, and purses that have been inadvertently caught up in linens or trash. Set on the prairies of southwestern North Dakota, Richardton Health Center is a 29-bed skilled nursing facility known for its high staff-to-resident ratio and the personalized, one-on-one care that comes with it. |
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MVH Caribou Expands Scandent Coverage to Utility Rooms
Caribou, Maine - July 11, 2025 - Maine Veterans’ Home - Caribou expanded its Scandent system this month, adding checkpoints at its soiled utility rooms. The new checkpoints will scan for hearing aids, dentures, eyeglasses, and other resident devices that have been left in linens, clothing, or other washable items before they go through a laundry cycle. Nestled in rural Aroostook County, MVH Caribou is a 70-bed facility that provides long-term and short-term skilled nursing care, rehab and therapy, residential care, and memory care to Maine's Veterans. |
MANAGEMENT TEAM
Vladimir Djuric
Chief Executive Officer
Vlad is the CEO and cofounder of Scandent. Prior to Scandent, Vlad was an Associate and a founding member of OpenView Venture Partners, a $1.5 billion venture capital fund that invests in software companies. While at OpenView, Vlad sourced and helped deploy $50 million into seven new investments and worked with portfolio companies to develop their finance functions. Before OpenView, Vlad was an Analyst at Insight Venture Partners. Vlad graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Economics. Vlad holds a patent in the RFID field.
Akshay Athalye
Chief Technology Officer
Akshay is the CTO and cofounder of Scandent. Prior to Scandent, Akshay was a Research Scientist at the Research Foundation at Stony Brook University, where his research interests focused on RFID hardware design, protocol development, and signal processing. Akshay holds several RFID-related patents and has been involved in RFID research for over a decade. Akshay has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stony Brook University, and has numerous RFID-related publications in academic and industry journals.
Richard Yao
Principal Systems Engineer
Richard is the Principal Systems Engineer at Scandent. He is a former Gentoo Linux developer with extensive experience in computer operating systems and storage. He was previously a major contributor to OpenZFS and has contributed to dozens of open source projects, including the Linux kernel. He enjoys work that improves humanity’s quality of life. He holds a B.S. in both Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University.