Today's healthcare providers face a daunting challenge: sustaining or improving patient care levels despite shortages of clinicians and nurses, increasing competition, and financial pressure.

The Oncology Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Brasov wanted to give patients as much freedom to roam as possible, while at the same time ensuring optimal patient safety and security. The centre was in need of an adequate wireless voice communication and messaging solution that would give patients the confi dence that medical staff is always on call, and reduce stress levels of nurses and doctors when called in case of urgent need.

Staff working in the office needs access to industrial production management in remote fieldsNeed a fast and secure network that would provide the speed and reliability to underpin their time-critical operations

Building control systems have traditionally managed heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) separately from other systems. Siemens Industry, Inc., envisioned a greater sophistication: Why not build a control system that would co-ordinate all these variables, as well as monitor building humidity, fire alarms, door locks, security, lighting and other building features, all while collecting historical data and storing network configuration information?