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AeroScout tags compatible
with CXX tag format
May 23, 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 Announces Enhanced Location and Sensor Capabilities With Cisco
Long-Standing Technology Partnership
Delivers CCX-Compatible Tags, Sensor Data, Choke-point Detection and Enterprise Software for Cisco Customers
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MATEO, Calif.--AeroScout, Inc., the market leader in Wi-Fi-based Active RFID solutions, today 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.
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