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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
D-Link Becomes Ekahau Infrastructure Partner
LAS VEGAS, Interop Booth 1331, April 27, 2010 – Based on a growing trend among organizations of all sizes to provide greater protection for people and property, D-Link today announced it is now offering its wireless customers the widely deployed Real Time Location System (RTLS) application suite from Ekahau, Inc., a leader in Wi-Fi-based RTLS.
Ekahau’s RTLS solution is comprised of location tracking software – that when combined with Wi-Fi tags or other Wi-Fi-enabled devices like phones and laptops – enables organizations to keep close track of employees, inventory and other assets on a real-time basis over existing Wi-Fi infrastructure. The tags and WiFi-enabled devices send the information to the Ekahau RTLS server, which calculates tag locations, manages the tags and provides a business application layer for end-users and integration with other enterprise systems.
Ekahau RTLS applications include:
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A health facility experiences significant budget savings through reduced equipment purchasing and leasing programs by tracking infusion pumps and ventilators in a 3 million square-foot facility.
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People, parts and tools are tracked constantly at a U.S. nuclear and fossil fuel power company to reduce reactor down time, saving the company more than $1 million per day.
The Ekahau RTLS system works over any 802.11a/b/g/n wireless network. Before the system is deployed, a simple walk-through site survey is conducted to prepare the network for RTLS tracking, and to determine if the existing access point (AP) density is adequate to provide required coverage and accuracy.
Ekahau’s comprehensive site survey tool (ESS) is used for Wi-Fi network planning, optimization and RTLS deployments. Once the site survey is complete, the RF signal pattern of each AP is embedded into the software to ensure tag location accuracy. Tags are then provided to everyone who will be using the system or placed on all devices an organization wishes to track.
“D-Link is the ideal hardware vendor for the Ekahau RTLS solution because we can cater to large customers with campus-wide Wi-Fi networks, and to those with remote sites who need a simple method to keep track and report on physical assets and people within their facilities,” said Josh Chai, D-Link’s director of global
alliances.
“Ekahau RTLS provides organizations of all types and sizes with solutions for improving efficiency, mitigating loss and enhancing safety that are easy to deploy and offer almost immediate return on investment,” said Tuomo Rutanen, senior vice president of marketing and business development at Ekahau.
Availability and Pricing
Ekahau RTLS and ESS site survey tools are now available to customers with the D-Link wireless solution through D-Link’s vast network of value-added resellers, solution providers and distributors.
About D-Link
D-Link, the global market and price/performance leader in connectivity for small, medium and large enterprise business networking, is an award-winning designer, developer and manufacturer of networking, broadband, digital electronics, voice, data and video communications solutions. Its value-oriented products and technologies include unified wireless switching, the D-Link Stack Storage Area Network (SAN) Arrays, IP Surveillance solutions consisting of IP cameras, powerful network switches, access points and iSCSI or Network Attached Storage (NAS), Green Technology and robust, highly encrypted security systems. D-Link Systems, Inc. headquarters are located at 17595 Mt. Herrmann Street, Fountain Valley, CA, 92708. Phone (800) 326-1688 or (714) 885-6000; FAX (866) 743-4905; Internet www.dlink.com.
About Ekahau
Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing Wi-Fi-based RTLS solutions. Ekahau’s RTLS technology is routinely recognized for its superior performance in customer benchmarking and competitive evaluations of Wi-Fi-based location tracking solutions. 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 several hundred hospitals around the world, as well as by manufacturers, mining/oil/gas companies, government agencies and the military. Ekahau partners include wireless software developers, leading system integrators and international OEM partners, who develop and market wireless enterprise applications. Ekahau is a U.S. based corporation, with offices in Saratoga, Calif.; Reston, Va.; Helsinki, Finland; and Hong Kong, China. For more information about Ekahau, please visit www.ekahau.com.
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