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AeroScout Announces
Wi-Fi Enhanced Location and Sensor Capabilities With Cisco
May 24, 2007
AeroScout, Inc. announced
the full compatibility of its market-leading Wi-Fi tags with Cisco's newly released CCX tag format. This enables Cisco
customers to add the most advanced location functionality to their Wi-Fi networks through AeroScout's award-winning Active
RFID hardware and software solutions.
AeroScout Tags now use the CCX tag format to communicate with the Cisco
Unified Wireless Network, which are also integrated with AeroScout's MobileView application software. This integration
includes full compatibility for multiple advanced features such as wireless sensors, data telemetry, call-button messaging
and choke-point detection through AeroScout's unique Exciter product. AeroScout tags will continue to work seamlessly
in the Cisco Unified Wireless Networks including outdoors and other challenging environments, for complete solutions in healthcare,
manufacturing and logistics.
"Cisco and AeroScout solutions are successfully deployed in numerous customer
sites and well-established in various industries for several years with proven results," said Ben Gibson, Director of
Mobility Solutions, Cisco. "The introduction of new capabilities like emergency call-button triggering, environmental
temperature monitoring, precision choke-point location alerts and others available from AeroScout, significantly broaden the
applications and benefits of utilizing the Cisco Unified Wireless Network."
The Cisco CCX tag format builds
upon the Wi-Fi "beaconing" tag method that AeroScout and Cisco jointly pioneered. It is a new standard for communication
from Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tags, which delivers location information and other valuable data to the Cisco Wireless Location
Appliance. The beaconing method eliminates the need to "associate" with the Access Point and enables AeroScout's
asset tracking solutions to easily scale to tens of thousands of tags without negatively impacting the Wi-Fi network. For
example, one recent AeroScout installation uses this method to enable over 15,000 AeroScout tags to operate on a Cisco Unified
Wireless Network. Other non-CCX tags that require an association method of continuous back-and-forth communication are severely
limited in scalability and drain network resources.
AeroScout and Cisco location solutions have been successfully
installed across multiple industries, and the ability to leverage the Wi-Fi network in order to deliver advanced data is a
critical part of these complete solutions. For example, within the healthcare industry, AeroScout CCX compatible tags can
utilize wireless telemetry and sensors to communicate pharmaceutical temperature data or medical device status, and AeroScout
Exciters can trigger the tags to report this information at gateways, all over the Cisco Unified Wireless Network. This valuable
data enables customers to gain a better understanding of asset status and to drive business decisions.
"Our
ongoing relationship with Cisco has enabled us to provide customers with a set of unique and high-value solutions, and we
continue to jointly lead the market by developing new features that enterprises require," said Gabi Daniely, Vice President
of Marketing and Product Strategy at AeroScout. "The beaconing tag method used by the Cisco CCX format ensures that our
large enterprise customers will continue to receive high scalability, low network impact, long tag battery life and advanced
features."
Since developing the industry's first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID asset tracking solution four
years ago, AeroScout has continued to lead and innovate in the Wi-Fi market. Recently, the company announced the world's
largest Wi-Fi-based Active RFID implementation and was named a winner of the Red Herring 100 award for innovation. Cisco and
AeroScout have previously announced multiple joint customers and technology development efforts, and Cisco is an investor
in AeroScout.
Keywords: aeroscout inc, active rfid tags, cisco customers, wi fi, choke point, tag format, ccx,
compatibility, wireless sensors, wireless location, temperature monitoring, complete solutions, mobility solutions, tracking
solutions, point detection, exciter, RFID
Source: Broadband Wireless Exchange Magazine
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