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RFID Tag: AeroScout
Announces Enhanced Location And Sensor Capabilities With Cisco
May 25, 2007
AeroScout, Inc. aeroscout.com
, one of the the market leader in Wi-Fi-based Active RFID solutions, recently announced the full compatibility of its market-leading
Wi-Fi tags with Cisco’s 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.”
Source: RFID Solutions Online
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