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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Scandent Gets Third Patent for RFID-equipped Hearing Aid Retainer
New York, N.Y. - November 15, 2016 - Scandent was granted another patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This invention describes an RFID-equipped retainer for hearing aids and its various possible embodiments, and also presented is an RFID tag designed for being embedded into the retainer body. The retainer can be in the form of a hollow string or tube with an embedded RFID tag or in the form of an RFID tag packaged in a device that sits behind the ear of the wearer. This is the third patent that Scandent has received. |
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Fourth Maine Veterans' Home Gets Scandent
Machias, Maine - September 29, 2016 - Maine Veterans' Home Machias deployed Scandent this week, becoming the fourth Maine Veterans' Home to use Scandent for loss and theft prevention. Machias deployed three Scandent checkpoints to protect residents' dentures, eyeglasses, and various other personal belongings. Machias is a 30-bed facility that provides residential care for those in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Its residents enjoy outdoor activities in the blueberry fields and along the nature trails that surround the home. |
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Third Maine Veterans' Home Goes Live with Scandent
Augusta, Maine - April 4, 2016 - Maine Veterans' Home Augusta, the largest in the MVH system, became the third Maine Veterans' Home to implement Scandent. MVH Augusta deployed seven checkpoints throughout its facility to prevent the loss of residents' dentures, hearing aids, and eyeglasses. It plans to expand its use of Scandent in the future to secure other resident and facility property as well. MVH Augusta can accommodate up to 150 residents and offers long term care, rehabilitation, and therapy services. |
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.