Partnership combines Sydion’s eMET system with Rajant’s cutting edge BreadCrumb® technology during the 2007 Wings of Freedom Air Show at
Pope Air Force Base
Sydion, LLC, a leading edge technology firm, partnered with Rajant Corporation to provide a portable real-time wireless electronic patient tracking system for the 60th anniversary ‘Wings of Freedom Air Show’ at Pope Air Force Base. Located in Cumberland County, North Carolina Pope Air Force Base is the home of the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command 43d Airlift Wing and Headquarters, 23rd Fighter Group of Air Combat Command and the 373rd Training Squadron.
An estimated 120,000 people attended the final air show at Pope Air Force Base. Pope Air Force Medical staff, Fort Bragg EMS and North Carolina State Medical Assistance Team provided medical support for everything from heat exhaustion to stabilizing patients onsite for transport to neighboring hospitals.
Sydion, LLC created the first integrated mobile electronic tracking system for Patient, People and Pets. This system allowed participating agencies at the Air Show to work in unison to manage patient care and coordinate incident resources.
After the North Carolina State Medical Assistance Team erected the temporary medical tent, Sydion provided eight roving Air Force Medic Teams with 
ruggedized wireless handheld computers (PDAs). These PDAs ran Sydion’s eMET (Emergency Management Event Tracking) application to capture medical and treatment information. This information gave a snapshot of current overall medical status, additional needed resources and whether further medical assistance was required. All information was transmitted over the Rajant BreadCrumb® network to Medical Command.
“We are thrilled to be working with Rajant,” said Jared Johnson, Managing Director of Sydion, LLC. “We have been researching portable wireless systems that are mobile which can be quickly and easily deployed. We found the Rajant BreadCrumb® devices to be a perfect fit for us to deploy our eMET system. The BreadCrumbs® are easy to configure, they are mobile, rugged and can deal with a changing medical response environment in real-time.”
During the Air Show, each agency and medical command were able to view real-time information via Sydion’s Patient Tracking Dashboard. The Dashboard organizes and maintains all collected data allowing quick and easy control of incident scenes. This application was instrumental in providing personnel with real-time metrics to determine how many patients were affected and what additional resources were required. At the close of the event, medical command generated final reports summarizing all collected information.
“We are excited to partner with Sydion, LLC to assist in mobile patient tracking,” said Glenn Booth, Vice President of Marketing for Rajant. “The BreadCrumb® system is designed to support RFID-based solutions, particularly in medical and first response applications where quick deployment is required. Rajant’s portable wireless system can be deployed within minutes with a single switch and quickly adapts to mobile client devices or other BreadCrumbs® units on the move. With this partnership, we very much look forward to helping first responders become more efficient, help to reduce the response time and potentially save lives.”
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