AIRWAVE AT WORK | Care Services

Airwave’s expertise in the delivery of display technology to the hospitality market, lends itself perfectly to the implementation of TV systems within the care services sector.

A home-from-home TV experience is always the measure of a quality TV system, and naturally, this becomes an even greater focus when providing TVs to residents, instead of patients.

Barchester Care Homes

Barchester Healthcare is the UK’s largest provider of care services, specialising in the delivery of top quality care to 13,000 residents, across a 200+ portfolio of properties.

Barchester’s services include nursing, residential & dementia care, assisted living, short stay respite care, and services for adults with severe disabilities or mental health needs.

Since 2018, Airwave has enjoyed working in collaboration with Barchester build partner, McGo Construction, in the design, supply and implementation of display and AV technology across the Barchester care home estate.

Whilst each Barchester property is unique, most are of similar size (averaging 65 bedrooms) and share fundamental technology requirements. Consequently, Airwave TV system installations tend to follow a pattern, as follows:

- Bedrooms - 43-inch Samsung SMART TVs

- Reception area – 1 x 43-inch Samsung SMART TV

- Lounges / communal areas – between 2 and 6 x 43-inch Samsung SMART TVs

- Cinema room - a 65 or 75-inch Samsung SMART TV, and a Sonos playbar sound system.

In almost every instance, TV displays (and audio equipment) are either flat-to-wall, or swivel mounted, depending on the TV point’s location and relevant room viewing angles. Airwave look forward to sharing the Barchester’s brand’s growth journey, and of course, the delivery of many more TV & AV systems.

Richmond Villages Willaston

With 10 luxury villages situated across the UK, Richmond Villages is a market leader in the provision of life-enriching retirement communities.

Part of BUPA, the organisation provides 1 and 2-bedroom luxury apartments and specialist care suites, catering for the completely independent, to the fully dependent resident.

Situated between Cheshire’s Crewe and Nantwich, Richmond Villages Willaston is the brand’s specialist dementia care village, purposely built to support su erers of dementia.

Inspired by a transformational Netherlands-led approach to dementia care, Willaston’s philosophy supports independent living for as long as possible. Residents are invited to live in small households of up to 6 like-minded people, typically chosen on the basis of shared interests.

Within the grounds of the village is a care home designed to support the needs of residents living with advanced stages of dementia.

Airwave was honoured to assist in the supply and installation of a brand-new TV system within the facility’s 35 bedrooms, installing a total of 80-displays of di erent sizes and models to best suit each TV’s location and purpose.

43-inch Samsung EJ690 Series SMART TVs were installed in the resident bedrooms, with 55 and 65-inch Philips HFL6014 SMART TVs flat-to-wall mounted in the property’s shared living spaces.

Brendoncare Foundation

Brendoncare is a registered charity, committed to improving the quality of life for older people through care homes, close care facilities and social clubs across the south of England. Operating a ‘care for life’ promise across its 8 care homes, Brendoncare will continue to care for residents if they run out of money.

Airwave is delighted to be involved in this fabulous initiative, and have delivered healthcare TV systems within the foundation’s newest properties, both located in Hampshire.

Otterbourne Hill and St.Giles View care homes are largely sta ed by volunteers and work on a tight budget; Brendoncare approached Airwave, looking for a quality TV system that wouldn’t break the bank.

Cognisant of budgetary requirements, Airwave still wanted to provide a well-known brand name and a quality viewing experience for the residentsthis compromise existed in the form of Samsung hospitality series displays.

Airwave installed a total of 114 x 32-inch displays across both sites, flat-towall mounting Samsung 470 Series displays at Otterbourne Hill, and Samsung 690 Series displays at St.Giles View.

Both models o er a slim, modern aesthetic and commercial TV features, services & warranty – alongside scope to add additional features and functionality in the future via the implementation of additional software.

Signature Care Homes

Signature o er luxury assisted living, nursing and dementia care across 41 locations in London and the home counties. All homes o er premium, awardwinning care amidst luxurious surroundings.

Airwave was approached to provide a premium TV entertainment system, in keeping with the fivestar service at Signature’s Wandsworth Common site, in southwest London.

On this occasion, the ideal technology o ering featured a mixture of 43 and 55-inch Samsung SMART EJ690 Series TVs, integrated with Google Chromecast, and wall-mounted in the resident bedrooms.

Key to Signature’s tech remit, was the ability to communicate with residents, promote activities and provide a meal ordering service via the bedroom TVs. With this in mind, Airwave implemented an Otrum Enterprise interactive entertainment system, collaborating with Signature’s marketing team to design a graphical user interface and a series of branded information pages.

Additional service functionality was implemented via an Otrum Touch system. Touch o ers a number of operational e ciencies - in this instance, used to send food and drink orders from Signature’s F&B sta to the property’s kitchen.

Other features available include room status management, automatic task allocation (based on sta availability), maintenance reporting and two-way messaging.

Talk Us Through The Workflow Of A Typical Project

This actually starts before I take ownership; we’ll typically engage our pre-sales team to implement a full site-survey, the nature of which dependent on the scope of the project. Most Airwave engineers are multi-disciplined and able to cover all aspects of the survey, but it’s not unusual to send engineers with various skillsets to advise on large, multi-faceted jobs. As an example, an RF engineer to review the property’s RF distribution, whilst a network specialist concurrently surveys WIFI/LAN/IP infrastructure.