PR WEB: Vestac LLC of Brick, New Jersey announced today the general availability of the industry's first FCC approved, multi-modal Wi-Fi and Infrared (IR) Real Time Locationing System (RTLS). This unique, patent-pending RFID capability combines high accuracy Wi-Fi positioning algorithms and IR's inherent lower cost "choke point" tracking.

Brick, NJ (PRWEB) June 25, 2009 -- Vestac LLC of Brick, New Jersey announced today the general availability of the industry's first FCC approved, multi-modal Wi-Fi and Infrared (IR) Real Time Locationing System (RTLS). This unique, patent-pending RFID capability combines high accuracy Wi-Fi positioning algorithms and IR's inherent lower cost "choke point" tracking. Coupled with long battery life Vestac provides for a flexible, easy to deploy positioning solution for the lowest total cost of ownership. The system has already received advance orders from several large enterprises for tracking people, inventory, and equipment.

The 220Bi tag and 330Xi battery-operated IR transmitter support simultaneous tracking through Wi-Fi and IR, and overcoming the limits of traditional RFID tags. This allows for a low-cost deployment and delivers a high level of accuracy even in areas with relatively sparse Wi-Fi coverage. The 220Bi tags can be worn by personnel or affixed to assets and are available in several form factors, which can be customized to specific requirements. The 220Bi and the 330Xi transmitter form a unique "Deploy and Go" architecture which requires no additional network modifications or expensive wiring.

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Sramana Mitra: Whether it’s a box of dressings or a piece of equipment costing thousands of dollars, hospitals and other medical facilities can sacrifice their quality of care and lose money when they don’t have a solid grip on their supply chain. To help ensure this doesn’t happen, Awarepoint has developed a real-time location solution (RTLS) system to track assets and handle management challenges faced by healthcare institutions. Its ‘Real-Time Awareness Solutions’ give healthcare clients such as hospitals, teaching institutions, independents and military facilities, business intelligence to improve quality of care, patient safety and clinical and financial outcomes. The RTLS, which are implemented with Active RFID tags, continually monitor the position and activity of resources, analogous to an indoor GPS.

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Intelligent InSites: Fargo, ND – June 19, 2009 – Last week, the World Health Organization declared the H1N1 virus, also commonly referred to as “swine flu”, a worldwide pandemic. National and state health officials in the U.S. are urging healthcare providers to take precautions to limit the spread of the virus from infected patients to healthy patients and staff.

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Health care Goes Mobile: The Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center has deployed a real time location system, bringing to three the number of UCSD Medical Center hospitals to opt for the Awarepoint RTLS offering. The Awarepoint enterprise RTLS installation has now been expanded to include nearly 1.5 million square feet with more than 2,000 assets under management, covering three hospitals across almost 14 miles.

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The Dot Med : Farmington Hills, MI -- Guard RFID Solutions Inc. announced Thursday that it has formed a distribution agreement with Dynamic RFID Solutions of Farmington Hills, Mich. to provide its next generation of Active RFID technology and solutions. Dynamic is making GuardRFID's Infant Protection, Patient Protection and Asset Tracking solutions available to its customers. The TotGuard Infant Security system uses the only Disposable Infant Tags on the market, eliminating the need to clean, disinfect and sterilize tags after use, and removing the risk of cross-infection between infants. These tags utilize GuardRFID's unique dual-tamper detecting mechanism, which is designed to significantly reduce nuisance alarms.

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RFID Wizards: By Dann Anthony Maurno, Louis Sirico, and Jill Abell, RFIDWizards.com Although it has quieted down in the U.S. media, on June 11, 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the worldwide pandemic alert level to Phase 6 in response to the ongoing global spread of the novel influenza A (H1N1) virus. A Phase 6 designation indicates that a global pandemic is underway. Seventy-six (76) countries are reporting cases of human infection with novel H1N1 flu. The U.S. alone has nearly 50% of the world-wide confirmed cases: 17,855. The flu is spreading faster and killing more people in the U.S. than any other country.

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Visonic Technologies: Visonic Technologies (VT), a global leader in unified Active RFID/RTLS safety and security solutions, announces the release of Elpas 2; an innovative, best-of-breed, fixed infrastructure topology. Elpas 2 delivers connectivity over wired or wireless Ethernet/Wi-Fi networks to enable enterprise-wide, detection, processing and relaying of RF and IR sub-room location data from Elpas Active RFID Asset, Personnel or Infant Protection tags to host applications in real-time. “Elpas 2 is a major stepping stone in VT’s efforts to implement industry-standard WAN/LAN technologies which, will encourage the continued growth and broad adoption of Elpas active RFID tracking and monitoring solutions across industries" said Michael Wasserstein, CEO of Visonic Technologies. “With Elpas 2, real-time asset or personnel location and status data can be cost-effectively backhauled over legacy IT backbones. Elpas 2 opens opportunities for institutions where real-time identification and tracking of people or mobile assets is mission critical to internal security and safety operations”. Elpas 2 is intended to complement and add to VT's portfolio of LonWork compatible network infrastructure devices; and will be marketed through VT’s worldwide network of qualified partners, beginning third-quarter 2009.

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ZDNet Asia: With global concerns growing over health issues such the H1N1 pandemic, bird flu and food contamination, radio frequency identification (RFID) has the potential to minimize the impact of such incidents.

Coupled with collaborative technology, RFID can help manage efficient responses such as the recall of suspected food products and notifying affected parties. For example, a calf can now be tracked from birth to the slaughterhouse as it is in Australia, where the National Livestock Identification System legislation mandated, in 2005, RFID tagging for cattle stock. There are even pilots where, combined with global positioning system (GPS) and "shock" technology, farmers can manage RFID-tagged cattle within certain geographical boundaries.

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Pharmaceutical Processing: By Grant Woolf, Solution Architect Director, TAKE Supply Chain Outsourcing continues to remain a dominant force throughout the pharmaceutical industry, as more companies than ever move to the "virtual world" of contract manufacturing. By incorporating outsourcing — a cost-effective, flexible approach to resource allocation and investment — into a company's overall business strategy, pharmaceutical companies gain new opportunities to sustain long-term growth and competitive advantage. But the increasing globalization of the contract manufacturing market can lead to a rush to expand practices in low-cost countries, straining brand owners' ability to manage and control their manufacturing, packaging and supply chain operations.

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virginiabeach.injuryboard.com blog: A company has invented a simple method of placing a bar code on each surgical sponge, and provides a barcode reader wand. The company SurgiCount has its products in a number of hospitals, and reports terrific success in reducing the number of lost surgical sponges that can cause an infection in the patient, which exposes the hospital or surgeon to medical malpractice liability.

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