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 wandering prevention 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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Third NYS Veterans Home Goes Live with Scandent
Oxford, N.Y. - December 16, 2014 - Just three months after St. Albans deployed Scandent, Oxford became the third New York State Veterans Home to use Scandent. Like its sister facilities in Stony Brook and Jamaica, Oxford plans to use Scandent to protect residents' dentures, hearing aids, eyeglasses, and electronic devices, along with facility medical equipment. Main entrance and basement checkpoints will alarm and notify staff by email, text, and phone call when they detect tagged items. Oxford can serve up to 242 residents and sits on 60 acres of scenic countryside. |
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Second NYS Veterans Home Implements Scandent
Jamaica, N.Y. - September 15, 2014 - St. Albans became the second New York State Veterans Home to implement Scandent, installing checkpoints at its main entrance and in its basement to scan laundry and refuse bins leaving the facility. St. Albans plans to use Scandent to safeguard residents' dentures, hearing aids, eyeglasses, and various electronic devices. St. Albans is a 250-bed skilled nursing facility that has been serving New York City area veterans and their families since 1993. |
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Chapin Home Deploys Scandent to Protect Resident Property
Jamaica Hills, N.Y. - August 14, 2014 - Chapin Home for the Aging deployed several Scandent checkpoints to scan laundry and garbage bins for hearing aids, detect dentures and eyeglasses left on dining room trays, and catch other resident property at building exits. Chapin Home was founded in 1869 by Mrs. Hannah Chapin and was originally located in Manhattan. In 1910, Chapin Home moved to Jamaica Hills and has since grown into a 220-bed skilled nursing facility with a 50-registrant adult day care health center. |
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.