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New Finds in Real-Time Location
By Eric Griffith
The Wi-Fi Real-Time Location Services (RTLS) market is on fire with new announcements this week, many coming out of the location-heavy needs of the healthcare industry as shown at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans through March 1.
First up is AeroScout, with new Wi-Fi tracking tags. The T3 tags have a new, flatter shape they call "credit card" rugged, and consume less power than previous versions, with up to four years of battery life. The tags use both RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) and TDOA (Time Difference of Arrival) to be located by the software running on the wireless LAN. If anyone tries to tamper with the T3, it will send an alert across the network. There’s two buttons on it for calling and alerting people. The company also announced a major hospital deployment (with partners Cisco and Emergin) at the University Hospital of Ghent in Belgium. Aeroscout, which is based mainly in Israel, received $21 million in its C round of venture capital, for a total of $55.5 since it was founded as BlueSoft in 1999.
Ekahau, which announced its own new tags last week (complete with tiny text screen) announced at the show a partnership with Nortel Networks. The Ekahau Positioning System software and tags will be coupled with the Nortell WLAN 2300 series for customers. Ekahau also offers a software "tag" to put on devices like laptops to make them equally trackable. (Nortel has also upgraded the voice capabilities and intrusion protection of its equipment.)
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Written by GPS Tracking Guy on February 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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Ekahau’s Comprehensive Wi-Fi-based RTLS Solution Helps Nortel Customers Leverage Wireless Infrastructure for Tracking Applications.
Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), has been selected as Nortel’s provider of location tracking solutions. Ekahau’s turn-key Wi-Fi-based RTLS will enable Nortel to offer its customers in industries such as healthcare, education, retail, hospitality and others, a way to easily and cost-effectively deploy location-based applications while maximizing investment in their wireless local area network (WLAN).
The Ekahau RTLS is a software-based RTLS solution that can be seamlessly implemented over standard Wi-Fi networks. The most accurate solution now available, the Ekahau RTLS enables location of assets or people with up to 1 to 3 meter accuracy and can track more than 10,000 objects on a single server.
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Written by GPS Tracking Guy on February 26th, 2007 with no comments.
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Radio Frequency Technology and Integration with Police Integral to Recovery.
LoJack Corporation announced it has recovered a milestone 100,000th stolen vehicle in the United States. The recovery, which took place in Philadelphia and leveraged LoJack’s Police Tracking Computers that are installed in police aviation units and squad cars, is another proof point that LoJack’s radio frequency technology and direct integration with police is the optimal solution for stolen vehicle recovery.
"We are proud to reach this milestone and, most importantly, we are proud of LoJack’s continued ability over the past two decades to partner with police departments such as those in Philadelphia to help in the fight against vehicle theft," said Richard T. Riley, LoJack’s Chairman and CEO. "The LoJack System’s integration with more than 1,800 law enforcement agencies in the United States has proven time and time again to be a solution that works. It has enabled law enforcement utilizing our system to recover over 100,000 stolen LoJack-equipped vehicles, while also helping them put criminals, of these and other more serious crimes, behind bars."
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Written by GPS Tracking Guy on February 23rd, 2007 with no comments.
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Text to the Tracking Tag
By Eric Griffith
Ekahau’s newest generation of Wi-Fi tracking tags does more than find things. It’ll find you. And it’ll send you a message.
The third-generation T301-B is the first from the many Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) companies that make Wi-Fi tags (Aeroscout and Pango Networks are some others) to build in a small display screen to receive text messages.
"The form factor is easy for putting into a pocket or wearing as a pendant," says Arttu Huhtiniemi, Ekahau’s director of product management. "The display lets an application send a text message to the user of the tag, all on the same channel we use to locate them via Wi-Fi."
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Written by GPS Tracking Guy on February 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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From ABI Research
New GPS-Wi-Fi Hybrid Positioning to Accelerate LBS
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SiRF’s Multimode Location Platform Promises to Boost LBS Availability, Revenues.
SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. and Skyhook Wireless, Inc. today announced that SiRF has licensed the Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS) in order to create a single positioning system for wireless carriers that combines the best of both GPS and Wi-Fi technologies.
This system, which is scheduled for release as part of SiRF’s Multimode Location Platform later this year, promises to boost the availability and adoption of location-based services. The two companies will present a demonstration of the new hybrid GPS-WiFi location technology at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 being held February 12-15 in Barcelona, Spain.
The technology will be applied to special client software from SiRF for mobile handsets that synthesizes GPS and Wi-Fi measurements as well as to SiRF’s SiRFLoc Server to enable it to establish precise positioning from these measurements. As handset makers roll out a new generation of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile phones to enhance both data and voice communications, the SiRF-Skyhook hybrid technology will leverage this hardware ecosystem to provide greatly enhanced positioning availability and accuracy for location-based services. Using this new technology, carriers can boost their revenues by offering enhanced location-based services that are easier to use, handset makers can better differentiate their products, and application developers can create exciting new services that work anywhere, even when GPS signals are not present. The system will benefit consumers by enabling them to more quickly and reliably perform tasks such as planning a trip, finding friends nearby or locating the closest ATM machine.
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Written by GPS Tracking Guy on February 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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