SARATOGA, California, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- EPE 4.2 Offers Improved Performance and Reliability to Support Mission 
Critical Applications

Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi based Real Time Location Systems 
(RTLS), today announced the immediate availability of Ekahau Positioning 
Engine (EPE) 4.2, which improves the solution's ability to deliver unmatched, 
standards-based location accuracy, speed and savings to the Wi-Fi based RTLS 
market and application developers. EPE 4.2 is the foundation for Ekahau RTLS, 
the only comprehensive turn-key RTLS system that can be installed over any 
brand or generation of Wi-Fi infrastructure. Ekahau RTLS is a software 
solution that supports location tracking with room-level or better accuracy 
using only the existing Wi-Fi network. It does not require additional 
chokepoints, UWB antennas or other proprietary infrastructure, as is the case 
with many other RTLS systems.

EPE 4.2 enhances the Ekahau RTLS solution with several new features, 
including:

- Added Event Management - System integrators can now leverage
Ekahau Event application programming interface (API), which introduces a
straightforward event-driven programming model and a powerful rules engine to
increase application performance and make system integration easier by using
intelligent location event filtering in the engine. Developing new RTLS
applications is now easier than before, as EPE already includes a set of
powerful business rules, including event history.

- Better scalability - Compatibility with 64-bit processor
architecture for Windows 2003 increases the performance to support concurrent
tracking of 40,000 items, compared to only 10,000 items in the previous
version. EPE 4.2 also supports multi-campus location models in which items
must be tracked over millions of square feet.

- Faster deployment - Purchase of EPE 4.2 now includes Ekahau
Site Survey 4.0 standard edition, which enables users to speed up Wi-Fi
deployment in general and make sure the network is ready for RTLS prior to
installation. This shortens the installation time and lowers the deployment
cost.

In addition to supporting the location tracking capabilities
of the Ekahau RTLS, the positioning engine's rich HTTP API enables it to be
widely used as a development platform for RTLS application development and
ERP integration. "EPE gives businesses worldwide a competitive advantage in
building Wi-Fi based asset and people tracking applications," said Tomi
Heinonen, product manager, Ekahau. "To improve their performance, our
competitors continue to add proprietary hardware to their solutions, which
makes the system more costly and complicated. Ekahau's positioning engine
upgrade gives users improved performance without adding any complexity to the
system, and reinforces our position as the cost-performance leader in the
RTLS market."

"Performance and total cost of ownership are two key metrics
for any RTLS system, and ensuring that both continue to improve with each new
product update, is the hallmark of success," said Louis Bianchin, senior RFID
analyst and program manager at Natick, Mass.-based Venture Development
Corporation. "Any high accuracy Wi-Fi RTLS server that is built on open
standards, and includes powerful deployment and development tools, is at an
advantage in the RTLS market."

Several Ekahau customers already have deployed EPE 4.2.
Helsinki District Hospital in Finland is extending its existing Ekahau system
to include tracking of elderly patients within their campus. Ekahau T301A and
T301B Wi-Fi tags are being used to ensure patient safety and to notify
security and staff if a patient wanders through an exit door or enters a
restricted area. "Our main target is to find the best possible technical
solution to fulfill the customer's needs," said Anne Koskimaa, product
manager for Securitas Systems."In this case, the new system truly helps
elderly patients maintain independence in safety. It also enables the caring
staff to free resources, as they do not have to constantly monitor patients
movements, but will be alarmed only when necessary."

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 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 offices in Saratoga,
CA; Reston, VA; Helsinki, Finland; and Hong Kong, China. For more information
about Ekahau, please visit at http://www.ekahau.com

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