PR News: SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- ZeroG Wireless, Inc., an innovator in low-power embedded Wi-Fi design, today announced the creation of the ZeroG Wireless Design Partner Program, an ecosystem of various embedded design experts. The Company designed the program to connect ZeroG customers with experienced design houses offering services in embedded wireless designs, accelerating customers' development process for embedded applications.

ZeroG's design partners have wireless experience with embedded system integration, radio-frequency (RF) design, computer networking and embedded software for ZeroG Wi-Fi modules. Design partners have experience in developing a wide array of embedded applications, including utility and smart energy, consumer electronics, industrial controls, remote device management, retail, medical, healthcare and fitness.

"We are committed to making it easy to build embedded applications with ZeroG Wireless Wi-Fi modules, creating an Internet of Things." said Tim Colleran, vice president of marketing of ZeroG Wireless. "Having this program will help our customers take their products to market easier and faster." ZeroG supports its design partners through training of the ZeroG Wi-Fi modules development process so designers can quickly build embedded applications. ZeroG design partners also have access to early-released software and system development tools.

"Arrayent builds networking and server software to Internet-connect products and Wi-Fi opens up a wide range of embedded applications. ZeroG has created a low-power Wi-Fi module that is focused on the ease-of-development for embedded Wi-Fi. Arrayent's partnership with ZeroG will help our customers reduce the overall design cycle of new embedded applications," said Shane Dyer, president of Arrayent Inc, one of ZeroG's design partners.

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PRWEB: Vancouver, B.C. (PRWEB) September 21, 2009 -- Rx Networks, Inc., a leading mobile location technology company, today announced its new XYBRID™ multi-mode positioning engine. XYBRID™ uniquely combines Cell-ID, WiFi signals with Assisted GPS ephemeris and coarse position aiding to yield fast and ubiquitous positioning for virtually any device.

"As a low-overhead, operator independent Assisted-GPS solution, XYBRID RT™, the first and real-time version of the solution, is optimized for service providers and device manufacturers - such as asset tracking companies - in need of fast global positioning, and for whom the lack of Assisted-GPS roaming or cost variances make it impractical to consider implementations across multiple operators", said Guylain Roy-MacHabee CEO of Rx Networks. "Also, in contrast with other GPS aiding solutions that can potentially expose user identity XYBRID RT™ contains no user identification mechanism and ensures security and privacy for applications that need it, such as tracking high value cargo."

"XYBRID RT™ is a perfect fit for Fastrax offerings and more importantly, for our customers. There is a continuous need to improve fix availability and TTFF in "impossible" environments in almost every asset tracking application. With our XYBRID RT™ based offering we serve our tracking customers as well as our GPS module customers even better than before and we expect this extended service to be greatly appreciated", said Fredrik Borgstrom, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Fastrax.

Rx Networks supports flexible business models and XYBRID RT™ can be licensed on a usage or a lifetime subscription basis. Rx Networks provides a XYBRID RT™ mobile client compatible with most mobile operating systems and most GPS chipsets. XYBRID RT™ will be available for commercial use in December 2009.

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Market Wire: REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - September 15, 2009) - AeroScout, the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility for the healthcare industry, today announced that WellSpan Health's York Hospital has deployed AeroScout's Wi-Fi-based healthcare visibility solution. York Hospital's emergency, biomedical engineering and transportation departments are using the AeroScout solution to track critical medical equipment throughout the facility to ensure that staff can quickly locate required items. The solution and its time-saving benefits are proving to be especially valuable in the emergency department during peak hours by helping to increase efficiency while improving patient satisfaction, care and safety.

York Hospital is a 580-bed, 1.2 million square-foot community teaching hospital that employs more than 3,400 people. It is currently being upgraded to one of only two Level 1 Trauma centers in south-central Pennsylvania. The hospital had wanted to implement a real-time location system (RTLS) for the last five years. When the project received approval and funding last summer, York Hospital selected AeroScout's solution primarily because it is Wi-Fi-based and because a Cisco Unified Wireless Network was already in place for data and voice over IP. York Hospital implemented the solution in collaboration with CDW Healthcare, which provided product guidance, industry expertise and logistical assistance, helping WellSpan to deploy an effective, scalable solution that supports patient care demands.

"One clear advantage of the AeroScout solution is that it leverages standard Wi-Fi, which means it was easy and cost effective to deploy and manage, allowed us to get up and running quickly and allowed us to stay within our budget," said Chad Noll, manager of biomedical engineering at WellSpan.

The solution deployed at York Hospital consists of AeroScout's MobileView software and Wi-Fi Tags. The tags are attached to a range of medical items that are constantly moving throughout the facility, including gurneys, infusion pumps, feeding pumps, portable physiological monitors and circulatory assistance pumps. The hospital also tracks its Wi-Fi enabled computers-on-wheels and IP phones. These items can be tracked without tags and without additional installed software clients, a functionality that can be achieved only with AeroScout's solution. When a tracked item is needed, staff can immediately locate it with MobleView's user-friendly interface via any computer on the network.

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PR News Wire: FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Dynamic Computer Corporation (DCC) has finalized a partnership agreement with AiRISTA to add Wi-Fi RTLS solutions to its RFID offerings.

Farida Ali, DCC President & CEO said: "We are proud to announce this addition to our portfolio, particularly for our health care customers looking to utilize their existing Wi-Fi infrastructures to include an RFID tracking system."

The Premier Healthcare Alliance supplier is a single-source RFID systems integrator serving industries including health care, aerospace, defense, education, manufacturing and pharmaceuticals. DCC offers active, wired (IR-RF), wireless, Wi-Fi, passive and battery-assisted passive (BAP) RFID-integrated solutions to meet the unique needs of its customers.

"We're delighted to join forces with DCC to offer the industry's most comprehensive Track and Trace solutions in regions where DCC's reputation of customer service and support is already established," said AiRISTA COO Frank Shirmo.

DCC has partnered with AiRISTA along with other leaders in RFID technology to ensure its customers can select from among the best systems in quality, functionality and value.

"Our business philosophy is to let the use case dictate the specific RFID technology rather than convincing customers that a particular solution is a one-size-fits-all fix for their business problem. We help our customers utilize RFID strategically to improve processes and reduce error in their operations." said Ali.

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Reuters (PRNewswire): LOS GATOS, Calif., Sept 10 /PRNewswire/ -- GainSpan((R)) Corporation, a leader in low power Wi-Fi semiconductor solutions, announced a strategic investment and technology development agreement with In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment firm that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the mission of the broader U.S. Intelligence Community. GainSpan provides the lowest power consuming Wi-Fi single chip solution for wireless sensor networks and other embedded applications, enabling devices to run for up to ten years on a single AA battery.

"GainSpan's innovative technology helps address critical technology needs of the U.S. Intelligence Community," said Troy M. Pearsall, Executive Vice President of Architecture and Engineering at In-Q-Tel. "The power requirements of Wi-Fi have traditionally limited its application in sensor networks, but GainSpan's low power Wi-Fi devices enable new classes of solutions that will provide key technology capabilities to both the government and commercial markets."

"Our strategic agreement with In-Q-Tel ensures that the U.S. Intelligence Community has easy access to GainSpan technology," said Vijay Parmar, President and CEO, GainSpan. "Also, as a member of In-Q-Tel's technology partner portfolio, In-Q-Tel provides us introduction to other portfolio companies where there are opportunities for knowledge-sharing and co-development."

GainSpan's low power technology applied to ubiquitous Wi-Fi allows its customers to leverage the very large installed base of Wi-Fi access points and devices, as well as existing tools and knowledge investments, to create many new products for security and access control, temperature and occupancy monitoring, and asset and people tracking.

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giga om: Atheros, a Wi-Fi chipmaker, said today it’s agreed to buy Intellon, a maker of chips that turn the home’s electrical network into a conduit for broadband, for $244 million. While most of us use Wi-Fi for our home network, it needs a stronger — and more reliable — wired infrastructure to aggregate and move the ever-increasing amount of HD video streams, music and telephony around. Which is why Atheros CEO Craig Barratt, while discussing his company’s proposed acquisition of Intellon on a call with financial analysts, described powerline networking technology as the backbone of the home network.

Indeed, today’s announcement makes clear that Wi-Fi is not everything to everyone. Of course, Intellon’s strong gross margins and talk of sequential quarterly growth helped endear it to Atheros (and to the analysts on today’s call) as well. Intellon said in July that gross margins for its most recent quarter had exceeded 50 percent, and that revenues had increased 14 percent on a sequential basis. Intellon has done well selling its powerline chips into the European IPTV market, and has seen increasing interest in them for smart grid applications. It’s also been hawking Ethernet over coax solutions into China, and has been investing in the upcoming G.hn wired home networking standard.

Given all this, the combined company will be positioned strongly for the future, as more carriers in the U.S. and in other markets look for both wired and wireless network capabilities to integrate into their residential gateways and set-top boxes in order to move digital content throughout the home.

So what does this acquisition mean for other Wi-Fi providers? Most will need a wired solution to leverage in-home wiring, such as coax or powerline. While Broadcom has already made a big strategic acquisition of MoCA (coax-networking) provider Octalica, this move by Atheros might pressure the company to shore up its powerline technology, especially given that MoCA is largely a U.S.-centric play. Other HomePlug players include Gigle Semiconductor and Coppergate (which acquired the HomePlug assets of Conexant), while Spain’s DS2 offers a competing powerline technology in UPA.

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Reuters (PRNewswire): SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- ZeroG Wireless, Inc., an innovator in low-power embedded Wi-Fi design, today announced that it has joined the U-SNAP (Utility Smart Network Access Port) Alliance and has early availability of U-SNAP modules, simplifying the process for smart-grid customers to "just add Wi-Fi" to their applications. U-SNAP's modular form factor, coupled with ZeroG Wireless' low-power embedded Wi-Fi, enables a whole new class of connected thermostats, appliances, power meters and many other home automation products to be brought to market with seamless Internet connectivity.

"ZeroG's Wi-Fi I/O products provide a secure, cost-effective, and mature IP solution for our smart grid customers," said David Friedman, senior director, strategic marketing, ZeroG Wireless. "Joining the U-SNAP Alliance and developing U-SNAP modules was a natural fit for us because it offers another simple means for our customers to just add Wi-Fi to their products."

"We are very pleased to have ZeroG as a U-SNAP member," noted Jon Rappaport, Chairman of the U-SNAP Alliance. "A compelling array of U-SNAP enabled products will be coming to market later this year and next, creating a broad ecosystem of Smart Grid ready, Energy Aware devices. ZeroG's Wi-Fi modules provide a perfect example of the future-proof flexibility of the U-SNAP standard, while simplifying Internet connectivity and device integration."ZeroG is currently engaged with alpha customers using its U-SNAP modules.

First products using these modules will be available in Q4'09, after which the Company will announce availability and marketing plans around the U-SNAP modules. For more information and to be considered for ZeroG's U-SNAP alpha program, please contact zgsales@zerogwireless.com.

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Amazon (Murtuza Attarwala): Would recommend this book to anyone who is actively working with Location Based Services, or is planning on working with Location Based Services. The initial sections of the book gives comprehensive use cases, where location based services are/can be used. The author then goes into the details of different technologies that are out there in the market that can be used to implement these services. For each technology, the author first describes the technology and then discusses the pros/cons of using that technology to implement the solution. These gives a very good idea, of what technology should be used from the cost/technical perspective for a particular solution. For e.g. what is the expected responsiveness of RTLS for your particular solution, what is the accuracy that you desire, is it room-level or is zone-level good enough, how big a tag is acceptable for your solution, what is the expected battery life of the tag. This book is a must read for anyone interested in Location based services.

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Purposed for Key Decision Makers at Healthcare Facilities Considering Implementation of a RTLS -- Real-time locating systems (RTLS) are becoming mainstream in healthcare environments. Although currently there is only a 29% adoption rate, this number is expected to grow to nearly 70% by 2011. However, there are many different RTLS offerings as well as remarkable variation in the implementation processes, functionality and long-term success with each system. This White Paper seeks to explore the implementation costs between two popular RTLS solutions: Wi-Fi RFID (radio frequency identification) from CISCO and hardwired Infrared-RFID from Versus, and outline system performance expectations following implementation.

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CIO’s must ask some very important questions to really appraise the cost and value of Wi-Fi based RTLS: 1. Are you really using existing infrastructure? The “just add water” story Wi-Fi marketers publicize loses steam in real-world applications. 2. What is the cost (in time and expertise) for on-going maintenance of Wi-Fi RTLS? Once you’ve optimized your Wi-Fi infrastructure for RTLS, you will need extensive location planning of highly trained individuals to keep it calibrated. 3. How will Wi-Fi RTLS traffic affect your network? Hospital administrators who select Wi-Fi based RTLS will be quickly disenchanted to find that with the increased “noise” Wi-Fi RTLS tags generate, Wi-Fi communications performance will degrade. This white paper will discuss some of the past and current paradigm changes that are present within the healthcare vertical market regarding RTLS. It will additionally provide an overview of Wi-Fi RTLS solutions and why it seems these solutions have not moved out from a “science project” or a departmental system to one that is enterprise-wide and providing quantifiable business process improvement.

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