A room pressure monitor is a device that monitors and measures the pressure of a given space in reference to another space. This value is called "differential pressure."

Room pressure monitors are used in "critical spaces" where contamination must be avoided. Critical spaces include hospital rooms, isolation rooms, operating rooms, cleanrooms, pharmaceutical manufacturing areas, vivariums, and data centers.

Some critical spaces such as data centers require monitoring more than just pressure to keep equipment running at peak performance. Pharmaceutical plants and other involved manufacturing facilities typically need to control the humidity, temperature, and particle counts of their spaces. Finally, a growing body of research is showing that hospitals can reduce infections by monitoring additional room parameters beyond just differential pressure.

Founded in 1967, Setra Systems, Inc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of pressure, acceleration, and weight sensing devices. Setra has devoted its engineering and research efforts to the development of transducers and systems based on the highly accurate variable capacitive transduction principle. Setra’s founders, Dr. Y.T. Li and Dr. S.Y. Lee, are Professors Emeritus of Engineering at MIT and the co–developers of the variable capacitance transduction principle, the innovative force sensing technology which is the heart of Setra’s products. Setra is ANSI–ASQ History Image ISO 9001:2008 certified through our registrar, National Quality Assurance (NQA). This prestigious certification requires Setra to maintain a documented quality system to ensure customer satisfaction through controlled design, manufacturing, and employee training programs. Setra Technology Park owned by Setra Systems, Inc., is located on a scenic 23 acre site in Boxborough, Massachusetts. Setra’s building is approximately 100,000 square feet and houses the executive offices, sales offices, and manufacturing facilities. In addition, Setra has additional manufacturing capacity in China at our wholly owned subsidiary, Danaher Sensors and Controls.

Aiva Patient Assistant is a voice assistant for patients, giving them hands-free control over their experience while reducing busywork for nurses.

Aiva leverages Alexa devices in patient rooms. We integrate with more than 25 inpatient systems, including building management (like Siemens, Desigo and Trane), patient experience (like GetWell, Sonifi, pCare and Vibe), communications (like Voalte and Vocera), EHR (Epic, Cerner) and nurse call (Rauland).  

Patients enjoy instant results and a more self-directed experience, improving satisfaction.

Nurses spend less time on low-value requests and more on direct patient care, allowing them to practice at the top of their license. For example, at a rehab hospital in Philadelphia, patients average more than 12 requests per day using Aiva, saving nurses more than 7500 hours per year.   

Aiva is the virtual assistant for healthcare, using conversational control of 25+ inpatient systems to reduce nursing workload and improve patient experience.  

Our clients include Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, BayCare Health, Houston Methodist Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Jefferson Health and Moffitt Cancer Center.

Aiva Smart Room lets patients control lights, blinds, thermostats and TVs by giving voice commands to enterprise-managed Alexa devices. Making patients more independent improves satisfaction while freeing up nurses to focus on higher-value bedside care.

Aiva Assistant allows nurses and pharmacists to read and write to the EHR, set reminders, access policies & protocols and control patient room environments from anywhere in the hospital. Aiva's mission is to cut by 50% the time staff spend stuck in front of a computer screen.

EHRs do not provide hands-free Smart Room controls like lights, blinds, thermostats and TVs. They also don't offer music, educational content, nurse call assistance or integration with language interpreter services.

Aiva is the only full-featured in-patient voice platform in the U.S.  

For example, Aiva's integrations with 25+ inpatient systems make us the only vendor enabling full Smart Room capabilities in U.S. hospitals, including voice control over lights, blinds, thermostats, TVs, PBX and nurse call.  

In addition, Aiva Patient Assistant is the only voice assistant enabling access to a range of patient-centric content, from medication education to music and relaxing sounds.