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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Wellington Woods Expands Scandent Wander Management Coverage
Little Rock, Ark. - August 12, 2024 - Wellington Woods, a new concept home for memory care, is building an additional 24 private rooms that will open in 2025. It will expand its Scandent wander management system into the new building, adding three checkpoints that will scan for wander management wristbands and resident belongings. After the new building is completed, the facility will house 40 residents in an intimate, home-like environment that preserves well-being and dignity, and offers specialized activities for people affected by Alzheimer's and dementia. |
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Long Island State Veterans Home Expands Scandent System
Stony Brook, N.Y. - March 8, 2024 - The Long Island State Veterans Home expanded its Scandent system last week, adding a checkpoint outside its dietary area. The new checkpoint will scan for dentures, hearing aids, eyeglasses, and other resident devices that have been left on food trays and discarded after meals. The Long Island State Veterans Home is a premier 350 bed facility that provides skilled nursing care, adult day health care, and short term rehabilitation to Veterans who reside on Long Island. |
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Ashley Medical Center Deploys Scandent
Ashley, N.D. - November 29, 2023 - Ashley Medical Center became the third nursing facility in North Dakota to adopt Scandent, deploying a checkpoint that will scan laundry and garbage bins moving through the facility. Ashley plans to tag residents' cell phones, wallets, hearing aids, eyeglasses, dentures, and other personal items. Ashley Medical Center is a 30-bed facility that offers residents an outdoor patio, a spacious dining room, a three-season room, and a sunroom with an aviary that houses various types of birds. |
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.