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Ekahau (News - Alert), a provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), has introduced four new Wi-Fi tags that expand the functionality of its real-time location tracking solutions.

 

The tags include a personnel badge tag (News - Alert) that offers the industry's first two-way Wi-Fi pager capabilities and other solutions for industrial, retail and temperature sensitive environments.

 

"Many of our potential customers understood the value of real-time location tracking, but had unique needs that exceeded the capabilities of our T301A and T201 asset tags or T301-B (News - Alert) badge tag," said Arttu Huhtiniemi, director of product management at Ekahau.

 

"With the new additions to our product line, we are addressing those customers' demands and delivering the functionalities to support a wider variety of applications,” added Huhtiniemi.

 

Ekahau's customers, including several Fortune 500 companies worldwide, are realizing the benefits of Wi-Fi based location services and innovative Wi-Fi network planning and optimization tools.

 

Ekahau's solutions are being used in more than 150 hospitals around the world, as well as by manufacturers, mining/oil/gas companies, government agencies and the military.

 

All of Ekahau's newly introduced tags, which have been designed in response to customer demand in a number of vertical markets, support two-way communication, enabling the tags to both send and receive information for communication and remote tag management across any brand or generation of Wi-Fi network.

 

Samples of all tags are available now and volume shipments are slated to begin in the fourth quarter of 2008. Pricing is available upon request.

 

Ekahau's complete line of tags deliver the broadest functionalities of any Wi-Fi tags on the market and offer enterprises the flexibility to leverage their existing Wi-Fi networks without installing proprietary readers or chokepoints.

 

The tags support two different modes of operation. The first is a full associating mode, in which the tag functions as would any standard Wi-Fi client, enabling it to operate and roam over Wi-Fi infrastructure from any vendor. The second is a beacon mode. Using Wi-Fi networks from supporting vendors, the tag sends RF beacons to the Wi-Fi infrastructure without associating, enabling longer tag battery life. The tags also can leverage both modes in parallel.

 

 

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