Ekahau to Showcase Innovative Applications, New Products and Interactive Demonstrations at HIMSS11 in Orlando

Ekahau to Showcase Innovative Applications, New Products and Interactive Demonstrations at HIMSS11 in Orlando

RESTON, Virginia, February 16, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    WHO: Ekahau Inc. (http://www.ehakau.com/)

    WHAT: HIMSS11 Annual Conference & Exhibition

    WHERE: Booth 3701

    Orange County Convention Center

    Orlando, Fla.

    WHEN: February 20-24, 2011

    WHAT'S NEW?

    Innovative applications, new products and interactive demonstrations will
be at the heart of what Ekahau is showcasing during HIMSS11 next week. Here's
just a taste of what you can expect to see:

   
    - Hand Hygiene Monitoring - Ekahau is expected to announce this week that
    it is teaming up with a leading producer of hygiene solutions for the
    healthcare market to develop a solution for monitoring hand washing over
    Wi-Fi networks to aid in compliance and reduction of hospital acquired
    infections (HAI). A prototype will be on display at HIMSS, with
    commercial availability beginning in the second quarter 2011.

    - Temperature and Humidity Sensor Tags (
    http://www.ekahau.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id&0&
    catid!&Itemidv)
    - Earlier this week, Ekahau introduced three new tags that
    provide an automated way to measure, monitor and manage areas where
    changes in the environment could be harmful.

    - Interactive Demonstrations - Visit the eight stations at the booth to
    see the Ekahau solutions in action. You can see how the Ekahau RTLS
    (real-time location system) can be used for asset tracking, temperature
    and humidity monitoring, staff safety, infection control, patient
    tracking and wireless sensing. Other stations in the booth will focus on
    solutions designed specifically for the government market, as well as
    Ekahau Site Survey, a simple-to-use software tool for professional
    Wi-Fi (WLAN) network planning, site surveys, and administration. Ekahau
    also will showcase an integrated asset tracking and management system
    that combines the power of RTLS with passive RFID and barcodes for a
    complete enterprise-wide asset tracking and management solution.

    Ekahau will also be leading an Exhibitor Solutions Session on Monday,
February 21, from 3:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Join Tuomo Rutanen, Ekahau's senior
vice president of business development, and Shawn Worthman, vice president at
GOJO Industries, to learn more about "Infection Control - Use Wi-Fi, RFID and
RTLS to Battle the Bugs (
http://www.himssconference.org/exhibition/pavilionsessiondetail.aspx?ppsid313)."

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    About Ekahau, Inc.

    Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing Wi-Fi-based
RTLS 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 more than 300 hospitals around the world, as well as by
manufacturing, retail and industrial 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
headquarters in Reston, Va., and other offices in Saratoga, Calif.; Helsinki,
Finland; Tokyo; and Hong Kong. For more information about Ekahau, please
visit http://www.ekahau.com.

    (c) Copyright 2011, Ekahau, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Source: Ekahau Inc.

Ekahau Media Contacts: Juliet Travis, Rocket Science PR, for Ekahau, +1-415-464-8110 x 215, juliet(at)rocketscience.com Cindi Loveall, Marketing Director, Ekahau, +1-703-860-2850 x 1008, cindi.loveall(at)ekahau.com