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Fast Growing Asia Pacific RTLS Market Spurred by Growing Awareness and Augmented Adoption

August 28th, 2008

Business Wire: Despite being a nascent technology more prevalent in North America and Europe, real time location system (RTLS) is steadfastly drawing consumers in the Asia Pacific region due to its highly precise location tracking advantage over existing systems. Consequently, installations are increasing in enterprises across a wide range of verticals including healthcare, manufacturing and logistics, transportation, and emerging markets such as personnel tracking.

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Ekahau Announces Compatibility With 802.11n

May 29th, 2008

PRNewswire: Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that its Ekahau rtls location tracking solution and Ekahau Site Survey (ESS) Wi-Fi network planning and optimization tools will work seamlessly with the upcoming 802.11n standard. Enterprises are already embracing 802.11n because it offers a number of performance gains, including radio coverage and speed. ABI Research forecasts that 47 percent of all 2008 Wi-Fi chipset shipments will be 802.11n draft 2.0. Ekahau's announcement strengthens the company's leadership position in the Wi-Fi rtls and site survey markets, and confirms that its technology continues to support the evolution of Wi-Fi and the standards themselves.

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TCS Demonstrates Fast, Precise Location Fixes Over Live 4G WiMax Network at CTIA WIRELESS 2008

March 24th, 2008

MARKET WIRE: ANNAPOLIS, MD, Mar 24 (MARKET WIRE) -- CTIA - Booth # 1341 - TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (TCS) (NASDAQ: TSYS), a leading provider of mission-critical wireless communications, today announced its live demonstration of precise location fixes over a WiMAX network using the Secure User Plane for Location (SUPL) Assisted Global Positioning System (A-GPS) technology in the TCS Xypoint(R) Location Platform. Believed to be the first in the industry to publicly showcase this capability, the TCS demonstration at CTIA WIRELESS 2008(R) runs on a live, commercially-deployed WiMAX network in the Pacific Northwest.

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ABI: Wi-Fi RTLS, Software Service Professionals to Experience Added Revenue, Expansion

February 20th, 2008

ABI Research: Wi-Fi real-time location systems (RTLS) require dense deployments of supplementary access points to accurately triangulate and then locate assets and people. According to ABI Research, it is no surprise that most equipment vendors fail to publicize the inadequate number of access points presently employed.

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Xmark Of The Beast? VeriChip Enters into Teaming Agreement in Healthcare Security with Ekahau: Market Forecast for RFID Tags and Systems High

August 14th, 2007

Business Wire: VeriChip Corporation Enters into Teaming Agreement in Healthcare Security with Ekahau. Market Forecast for RFID Tags and Systems in the Healthcare Industry Exceeds $2.1 Billion by 2016. Agreement Provides Boost to Xmark's Asset Tracking Solution VeriChip Corporation (NASDAQ:CHIP - News), announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Xmark Corporation, has entered into a Teaming Agreement with Ekahau, a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS). Under the agreement, the two companies have agreed to collaborate on wireless solutions in the healthcare market to best meet customers' needs.

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Navis Introduces Navis™ RTLS Solutions

June 26th, 2007

Business Wire: Navis, the global leader in enterprise software solutions for logistics asset visibility, control and optimization, last week launched Navis[TM] Edge Manager's Real-Time Locating System (RTLS) at TOC Europe in Istanbul, Turkey. The new product provides a DGPS-enabled RFID system for tracking equipment using existing wireless infrastructure that provides higher accuracy than traditional RTLS solutions at lower total cost. This solution is designed for marine terminals, distribution centers and other applications where the real-time locating of assets is critical. This revolutionary new approach to RTLS further demonstrates Navis continued dominance in software innovation for asset visibility and control.

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Multispectral Solutions Announces Ultra Wideband RTLS Hardware Lease and Training Packages (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

June 5th, 2006

Business Wire: Multispectral Solutions, Inc. has announced the introduction of a Hardware Lease Program and training courses for its award winning, Sapphire DART, ultra wideband Precision Asset Location System.

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Ekahau Announces Wi-Fi RTLS Solution

November 30th, 2004

Business Wire: SARATOGA, Calif. -- Combining Wi-Fi Tag and Positioning Engine with New Applications, Creates a Turn-Key Solution for Enterprises EKAHAU, INC. today announced that it has created an application software suite for Wi-Fi location tracking, to be used in combination with Ekahau Positioning Engine and Wi-Fi tags. Named as Ekahau RTLS (Real Time Location System), the combined system offers a...

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