RESTON, Virginia, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ —

 

Ekahau, the worldwide leader in
high performance Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems (RTLS),
today announced that, in conjunction with Nordic ID, it has
developed a solution for adding location information to passive
RFID and barcode labels. The Ekahau-Nordic ID solution is used to
track low-cost assets like surgical implements, drug supplies, and
other inventory.

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Since 2002, Ekahau’s RTLS technology has enabled users to track
any assets in real-time throughout a hospital campuses using active
Wi-Fi
tags. Now, working with Nordic ID, Ekahau’s RTLS is also
capable of tracking passive RFID and barcode labels, as well as
managing, storing and viewing assets and their respective location
history in the same database.

The combined Ekahau-Nordic ID solution consists of Ekahau RTLS
software and Nordic ID Merlin and Morphic mobile computers
(handheld RFID and barcode scanners). The scanner’s location is
determined via RTLS and then associated with RFID/barcode
information on the asset being scanned. The location and asset
information can then be viewed and managed with the Ekahau Vision
business logic and analytics software, which lets users see asset
locations on a real-time map , generate asset reports and audit
trails, and alert users if any items are low or in the wrong
location.  

Arttu Huhtiniemi, Vice President of Product Management at Ekahau
explained: “Previously there were two primary ways to keep track of
RFID and barcode assets: the first was to manually input the
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