Globe Newswire: ORLANDO, Fla., Sept. 30, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- PrismOne Group, Inc. (OTCBB:PMOZ), a provider of managed technology services to targeted vertical market clients with either a high number of employees, multi-locations or growth challenges, is pleased to announce that it has chosen Axcess International Inc. (OTCBB:AXSI), a leading provider of Dual-Active(TM) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) solutions, as the supplier of RFID technology for PrismOne's pilot of the company's Presence Response and Intelligent Systems Management (PRISM).

PRISM will enable real time, dynamic analysis of a building environment through the use of Presence tracking to modify environmental systems. PRISM will manage and control use-sensitive systems such as lighting, HVAC and other systems to maximize energy efficiency and lower a user's and subsequently a building's carbon footprint. PRISM will be integrated into PrismOne's web-based interface as an additional module and integrated with the existing communications and network modules.

Samir Burshan, CEO of PrismOne, states, "I was educated as an architect and feel very strongly about building sustainability. In our capacity to develop technology solutions, I wanted to provide a way to answer the frustrating questions of why lights in an empty space are left on, or an AC is cranked down to 72 degrees or a TV or stereo is on when there is no one there -- anywhere! RFID is just one component of PRISM but an important one. We didn't make this decision quickly. We wanted to find the right technology for our solution, and, after one year of searching, reviewing and re-reviewing our short list, we feel that Axcess is the best company to partner with to provide us that technology."

"Our MicroWireless technology automatically tells you where your personnel and assets are throughout a facility," said Allan Griebenow, President and CEO of Axcess International Inc. "We are uniquely qualified for presence determination because our wireless credentials and asset tags are very small, economical and reliable compared to other options. Interacting dynamically with the building's energy management system will mean energy will be used most efficiently. With such a rapid increase in demand for green building solutions, we are very excited to support the PrismOne effort."

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Network Computing: Asahi India Glass, one of the largest manufacturers of glass for automotives, uses specially designed metallic pallets to store and move the automotive glass across the supply chain, right from the production floor till the car manufacturer's assembly line. Thus, visibility of these pallets is imperative at all times, not only at the firm’s own facilities, but also at the customer's end.

Asahi faced a huge challenge with respect to monitoring and accounting for these pallets, since they are critical to production, are moveable, large in number and circulated in an open loop supply chain.

To improve pallet visibility, the firm partnered with Barcode India, which developed a turnkey solution for returnable asset tracking using Motorola passive UHF Gen2 RFID technology. Today, each pallet is mounted with RFID tags which carry a unique pallet ID number.

The gate portals are erected at strategic locations to capture the movement of the pallets. As a forklift carrying an RFID-enabled pallet passes through these portals for inward, outward or within facility movement, the tags are read by gate readers and processed by the application software. The pallet transactions are also captured at the customer's end at the time of delivery using hand held RFID readers.

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Earth Times: KENT, Wash. - (Business Wire) Under the Agreement, LEGENDid will offer GuardRFID’s leading edge Active RFID products and security solutions to their Healthcare as well as Industrial and Enterprise customers. GuardRFID offers the smallest and least expensive RFID tags, allowing users to track, locate and protect equipment, materials and people in almost any environment. It’s Web based platform uses wired or wireless Ethernet, resulting in cost effective installations, and allowing remote monitoring, diagnostics and system updates.

“We have been providing high-end RFID products and security solutions for many years, and are excited to add GuardRFID to our portfolio. GuardRFID brings a unique and cutting edge active RFID platform that will allow us to offer security solutions with much greater capabilities than we have been able to provide in the past,” stated Doug Vetter, the President of LEGENDid. “GuardRFID’s technology platform and solutions are very versatile, and we can apply them to almost any vertical market we are involved in. I was blown away when I personally witnessed a demonstration of one of GuardRFID’s asset tracking tags being read while it was placed within a double-walled metal cabinet.”

“We are thrilled to have LEGENDid as one of our partners, as they bring years of security experience and expertise to the table, which will translate to well installed and supported systems, and therefore happy customers,” says Zahir Abji, President and CEO of Guard RFID Solutions Inc. “LegendID gives us the ability to provide solutions to a wide variety of customers, including Healthcare, Public Safety and Heavy Industry. This will allow us to expand our reach in Healthcare, and further build upon the traction we are currently experiencing in the Industrial and Enterprise space.”

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Business Wire: REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following the recent announcement of an agreement between Premier Purchasing Partners, L.P., and AeroScout, the Premier healthcare alliance announced today that it has selected AeroScout as the sole source provider of RFID Asset Tracking and Management solutions for Premier’s ASCEND™ program. The three-year agreement covers AeroScout’s Wi-Fi RTLS healthcare visibility solutions for all ASCEND members. AeroScout’s solutions will leverage ASCEND members’ standard Wi-Fi networks and offer a broad range of applications and capabilities that deliver strong returns for hospital organizations.

ASCEND (Accelerated Supply Chain Endeavor) is designed to help healthcare providers achieve and sustain rapid improvements in supply chain performance. It also assists Premier alliance member hospitals in ongoing efforts to control and reduce costs through simplified purchasing processes, appropriate clinical utilization and specially negotiated contracts. More than 90 participants that represent approximately $2.7 billion in supply chain purchasing volume and close to 24,000 hospital beds are collaborating to share best practices in supply chain efficiency as a part of the program.

“Premier and ASCEND are committed to providing members with systems and solutions that improve quality, heighten safety, manage risk and reduce costs," said Mike Alkire, President of Premier Purchasing Partners.

AeroScout addresses the entire set of visibility application requirements of hospital organizations in the most comprehensive and cost efficient manner. With AeroScout’s scalable Unified Asset Visibility solutions, customers can work with a single, proven provider and implement one platform for all current and future asset, patient and staff visibility needs. AeroScout’s solutions include real-time Asset Management, Equipment Maintenance and Humidity & Temperature Monitoring and are exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association.

“We’re proud to be the exclusive provider of RFID Asset Tracking and Management Solutions for Premier’s ASCEND program,” said Gabi Daniely, Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy at AeroScout. “This selection reinforces AeroScout’s position as the top vendor in the category and the market, and we look forward to working with ASCEND hospitals toward the common goal of improving operational performance as well as overall patient safety and care.”

For more information on enrolling in ASCEND, please visit www.premierinc.com/ascend.

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TMC Net: By Marisa Torrieri, TMCnet Editor

Since Arnold Clark Automobiles upgraded to a WiFi (News - Alert)-and-RFID-based system via the Cisco Unified Wireless Network this summer, cars have become so much easier to track that the European independent auto dealer has already saved 125 hours a month, which means two service workers can focus on other areas.


Before implementing the Cisco (News - Alert) Unified Wireless Network, “the dealership -- which has 145 locations and 8,000 employees across the United Kingdom – would sometimes find it challenging to track down the right car for the right customer quickly,” saidChris Kozup ( News - Alert), senior manager of mobility solutions for networking giant Cisco. The flagship dealership, located in Stafford, maintains an inventory of 1,000 cars for sale at any given time on a 12-acre lot and 74,000 square-foot showroom.

But when a customer arrives to the sales lot, associates typically have less than 10 minutes to engage the customer and find the right car or they could lose the sales opportunity. With the new Cisco-based system in place, a sales associate can pinpoint the exact location of a desired car within minutes. First, the sales person goes to a terminal with Arnold Clark’s inventory management software that is connected to the AeroScout Vehicle Tracking Solution application. They select the parameters – for example, “customer wants a 2007 blue four-door” -- and plug in that information. The tracking system scans the inventory to see the cars that match the criteria, and then, “pings into” the Cisco “Mobility Services Engine” to determine where the car is located. Because cars wear active Radio Frequency Identification (or RFID) tags that send out signals to the tracking system, their location on a floor plan or lot is exact, Kozup said.

“What the Cisco Mobility Services Engine does is allows us to take that location information and put it into the AeroScout Vehicle tracking solution,” Kozup said. “And the combination of that information with the tracking solution helps the car sales associate know where a car is located on a floor or lot plan.”

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Wireless Developer Network: Reston, VA - Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS), today announced a new Ekahau Site Survey (ESS, version 4.6), which adds time-saving site survey capabilities for 802.11n, as well as legacy 802.11a/b/g networks. ESS is the only tool in the market to combine passive survey and active end-to-end Wi-Fi network testing – a feature called Hybrid Survey. With a single site survey walkthrough, the passive testing will provide information on the wireless signals, while the active testing measures end-to-end connectivity status, packet loss, delay times and roaming history. This cuts the survey time to one-third when compared to competing site survey solutions.

Hybrid Survey quickly reveals hard-to-detect network design errors that are not seen by traditional site survey tools or Wi-Fi management software. Such errors may be caused by mis-configured security settings, Ethernet cabling and routing issues, as well as access point hardware failures, such as bridging failures and radio malfunctions. The packet loss and delay time measurements of the Hybrid Survey feature are increasingly important with 802.11n networks running VoIP applications, for example. At the same time, the passive measurements produce crystal-clear coverage and performance maps of the facility.

In addition to Hybrid Survey, the traditional passive measurements in the new ESS are more comprehensive: The new noise display allows instant detection of areas with high noise levels. In case of excessive noise levels, Ekahau Site Survey users also have the option to use the recently announced Spectrum Analyzer to further analyze and eliminate sources of noise.

“The message from the field is clear: Our customers and partners want to minimize the time spent deploying and troubleshooting Wi-Fi. The Hybrid Survey feature in Ekahau Site Survey 4.6 allows the user to completely verify the network with just one walk-through site survey.” said Jussi Kiviniemi, senior product manager at Ekahau. “The new ESS also demystifies Wi-Fi troubleshooting: simply take the laptop to the problematic location, and ESS will completely test the network – and tell you what’s wrong.”

Kiviniemi continued: “What further differentiates Ekahau Site Survey from its competition is its unique capability to use the collected site survey data for asset and people tracking applications (RTLS), just by adding Wi-Fi tags and the RTLS software. This means that ESS users are actually hitting three birds with one stone: during a single survey they perform passive as well as end-to-end testing, and calibrate the RTLS”. Ekahau RTLS is a Wi-Fi location tracking solution chosen by hundreds of enterprise customers in industries like healthcare, mining, and government for the purpose of asset tracking, staff safety, and process improvement applications.

Rick Murphy, course director for Wireless Training Solutions, and senior instructor of the CWNP Program added, “as the world’s authority on Wi-Fi network design and training, we of the CWNP Program stress the careful planning, implementation, and verification of wireless network designs. Wireless LAN deployment is subject to many pitfalls, especially today, with the high level of performance required by voice and video transmissions being carried over Wi-Fi. In addition, the new features offered by 802.11n make designing the wireless LAN more complicated than ever. We are extremely pleased to see our partner Ekahau release this new level of technology, which we feel will make manual site surveys faster, more comprehensive, and more accurate.”

Ekahau Site Survey 4.6 also brings improvements for 802.11n capabilities, and various usability improvements. Ekahau Site Survey 4.6 will be available at the beginning of November from Ekahau and its resellers and distributors. Reduced introductory pricing is available as of today, until the end of November. More information is available at www.ekahau.com/ess.

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Earth Times: BOSTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Siemens Enterprise Communications Group (SEN Group), a premier provider of business communications solutions, and PosTrack Technologies have been chosen by Ottawa Regional Hospital and Healthcare Center (Ottawa Regional) to deliver a hosted unified communications (UC) solution. With the SEN Group OpenScape Voice Application and 24x7 monitoring and service desk and PosTrack ConnectPlus licensing, Ottawa Regional can enjoy advanced communications features without having to manage the system internally, making it easier to focus on their core business - healthcare.

While many healthcare providers have scaled back capital expenditures, Ottawa Regional continues to invest in patient care, adding a new cancer treatment and radiation oncology center, as well as an expanded diagnostic imaging center. Residents of LaSalle County, Illinois and surrounding communities benefit from a comprehensive range of healthcare services, including inpatient and outpatient medical and surgical care, emergency care, pre-natal and post-partum care, rehabilitation and physical therapy, behavioral health services, home health and hospice care.

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GPS Business News: A French start-up named Insiteo and specializing in indoor positioning has concluded the initial phase of a founding round valued at several million Euros. Investment has been secured from venture capital firm Emertec and a small group of private investors, including Anne-Sophie Pastel, former CEO and co-founder of auFeminin.com, with the support of ACTA Finance.

“The increase in capital will enable us to equip our first clients, including a major site in Paris attracted by the benefits of the Insiteo solution,” said Arnaud Masson, President of Insiteo. “Ours is indeed a disruptive technology able to deliver to most existing phones a perfect continuity of location services in environments where GPS is unavailable, including commercial centers, tradeshows, and industrial sites,” Mr. Masson continued.

Insiteo’s technology is an infrastructure-based solution that combines A-GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and, in some cases, FM radio to provide indoor, sub three meter positioning. “We’ve identified sites where our clients place a sufficiently high value on being able to deliver location-based information that they can justify a modest investment in site-specific infrastructure”, explained Stuart Strickland, vice president at Insiteo. “Unlike many RTLS systems – which, in some respects, this approach resembles – we do not rely upon any customized user equipment, so anyone with a phone can essentially walk in and participate”, he added.

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PR Newswire: PITTSBURGH, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Market leader TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. has acquired real time location system (RTLS) company RadarFind to deliver a truly automatic, enterprise-wide patient flow system to the U.S. hospital market.

"As the pioneer of patient flow automation," said TeleTracking CEO Anthony Sanzo, "it's been our mission to continually improve upon our time-tested, proven approach to manage real-time patient flow actions which help clients provide more timely care and reduce wait times."

"Engineering progress and new technologies, especially like that of RadarFind, now allow us to confidently incorporate RTLS for more precise tracking visibility of patients and beds on our enterprise-class platform, TeleTracking XT(TM).

To improve the numerous aspects of the complex patient flow continuum, hospitals need to discharge patients in a timely manner, turn over rooms efficiently, move patients comfortably and safely, and place the patient in the most clinically appropriate bed. This requires accurate, real-time information. RadarFind provides an "absolute real-time," affordable, non-disruptive, enterprise-wide way to pin point patients, staff and expensive equipment. Combined with TeleTracking's flow automation software, it will greatly enhance the process.

With 800 plus clients covering virtually every major U.S. city, TeleTracking now can deliver these real-time capabilities to the largest single share of the American hospital market to help them put the right patient in the right bed with the right equipment and right staff for the right reason.

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PR Inside: Calcutta, India, September 21, 2009 - PervCom, an industry leader in providing active RFID based real time locating system (RTLS) solutions in India, has announced the launch of its new comprehensive wireless solution package for the mining industry for improving asset visibility, optimizing production, and safety.

PervCom’s WirelessMine solution package covers the open pit and underground mining operations with different modules; namely- DumperTrace, DumperShield, DumperHealth, TruckTrack and WirelessUnderground.

The DumperTrace is a Dumper Utilization Management and Trip-Counting System for opencast mining industries. Dumper Trace combines the benefit of IEEE 802.15.4 wireless mesh networking system with GPS based navigation system in order to overcome the limitations of GPS-Only systems. The measurement of cumulative utilization pattern of Shovel-Drill Machines-Dumper and other mining equipments is also possible in this system. The online monitoring facility inherent in the system enables proper, error-free monitoring of production from the remote corporate office to the higher management.

DumperShield is a dual-alert automatic collision avoidance system that protects dumper-to-dumper collision, dumper-to-worker collision and the collision of dumper with fixed hazards in opencast mines. Dumper Shield offers early warning and proximity warning using GPS and RF proximity sensors ensuring no blind spot and minimum false alarm. The driving characteristics of the Dumper driver can also be logged inside the system and used in the future for analysis.

DumperHealth system automatically detects and monitors the operational parameters of the essential components of Dumper & generates alerts for maintenance related issues.

TruckTrack is an automated real time tracking system of locations and weights of loaded trucks at entry-exit gates, parking lot, weighbridges within a plant premise from the remote corporate office.

WirelessUnderground system is meant for improving underground mining safety and production improvement through constant monitoring of asset utilization. The utilization pattern of various underground mining equipments such as Side Discharge Loaders, various Drill machines, Load Haul Dump machines etc. can be monitored online and without any human intervention. Moreover, underground miners can be located in various tunnels from the central control station on the surface, which has a great impact on the safety in case of a disaster. The WirelessUnderground system also incorporates strategic placement of the wireless toxic gas sensors, humidity and air flow monitoring sensors to monitor the underground environment in real time, and also provide alerts to take appropriate actions in case of undesired situation.

The benefit of this integrated WirelessMine system is multi-dimensional. By studying the current utilization pattern of the mobile vehicle units the management can improve the production of the operating vehicles. This will in turn improve the individual mobile asset utilization to a great extent. Furthermore, the closed loop control over the mobile asset will also improve the operational efficiency by allocating ‘idle’ vehicles to the more work heavy zones.

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