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Smart Dialysis®: Where environmental benefits meet economic advantages
Dialysis centres are among the most energy- and water-intensive areas in the healthcare sector. Treating water for haemodialysis requires enormous amounts of drinking water, resulting in high costs. At the same time, dialysis providers face growing pressure to reduce operating costs and adopt more sustainable practices to become future-ready. This poses the same question for many centres: How can high-quality care be maintained while operating more efficiently and environmentally friendly? Our answer: Smart Dialysis®
One thing is clear: isolated measures are not enough to meet the challenges of our industry. What’s required is a holistic approach that couples medtech with eco-friendly technologies and connects them via digital infrastructure.
Yes, it works in dialysis too: Ecology meets economy
Smart Dialysis® is our concept for future-ready dialysis. It combines two powerful components:
- Cross-Sector Integration: the hardware
- GreenTec Performance System (GPS): the software
Together, they enable a new form of resource management in water treatment that delivers both ecological and economic benefits.
Cross-Sector Integration: the hardware
We combine our expertise in medical technology with renewable energy and intelligent building systems. Our goal is to significantly reduce energy and water consumption. The interaction of technologies within our Cross-Sector Integration enables savings that go beyond what isolated measures can achieve.
Images above: Examples of components used in our sector networking
- Photovoltaic systems generate energy on-site and are ideal for offsetting the high energy demand of reverse osmosis (RO) systems and dialysis machines.
- Heat pumps use environmental heat to preheat water. When properly configured, they are highly efficient.
- HE.RO system (HEat up Reverse Osmosis): our heat exchanger uses this heat to temper water before reverse osmosis.
Other combinations of technologies are also possible. The ideal setup for each dialysis center depends on the specific conditions at the site. We begin by conducting a potential analysis and then develop customized solutions for each center.
Benefits of the GreenTec Cross-Sector Integration:
- It can increase a centre’s self-consumption rate to 90% or more.
- Up to 50% energy savings in water treatment are achievable. That is significantly more than isolated measures can deliver.
GPS: the software
One of the largest consumers of energy and water in dialysis centres is water treatment. In many facilities, water and electricity consumption is not tracked, making process optimization impossible.
This is where our GreenTec Performance System (GPS) comes in. It acts as the brain behind operations and monitors all components of our Cross-sector Integration and water treatment 24/7. And it provides the urgently needed data to make water treatment more efficient.
Monitor – Analyse – Optimise
The two modules, GPS Smart Energy and GPS Smart Water, visualise all relevant parameters and document data in real time. We analyse this data and derive specific optimisation proposals to make processes more efficient.
The software also generates automated daily logs in accordance with ISO 23500 and enables remote monitoring of multiple locations.
The advantages of the GreenTec Performance System:
- Comprehensive resource and energy tracking
- Optimised water and energy use
- Automated daily logs
- Hygiene and system monitoring, as well as remote monitoring
Smart Dialysis®, because ecology and economy go hand in hand
With Smart Dialysis® , we combine innovative hardware with intelligent software. This forms the foundation for dialysis that delivers both ecological and economic value.
Benefits of Smart Dialysis®:
- More efficient operation reduce operating costs, energy and water usage
- Lower CO₂ emissions
- Greater resilience against grid electricity costs
- Automated daily logs and remote monitoring
- Reduced workload for staff through automated documentation
- Germany: thanks to BAFA subsidies faster return of investment
Conclusion: Smart Dialysis® is the key to future-ready dialysis operations
Smart Dialysis® is the combination of Cross-Sector Integration and digital connectivity via our GreenTec Performance System. It makes water treatment smarter, more efficient and more environmentally friendly.
Those who invest in Smart Dialysis® today are shaping the dialysis of tomorrow: economical, sustainable and responsible.
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