Madrid Hospital Improves Employee Safety With Ekahau Wi-Fi RTLS


SARATOGA, California, July 30 /PRNewswire/ --

- 12 de Octubre Hospital Deploys Ekahau Positioning Engine and
Tags With Panic Button to Support Security of Emergency Room Personnel

Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location 
Systems (RTLS), today announced that the 12 de Octubre Hospital in
Madrid, Spain, has installed a Wi-Fi-based location tracking solution that is
designed to improve security and safety of its emergency room employees. The
solution, deployed by Indra, is built on the Ekahau Positioning Engine, a
software-based location server that leverages existing enterprise Wi-Fi
infrastructure for location tracking.

"The Ekahau Positioning Engine helps hospitals capitalize on
their existing Wi-Fi infrastructure," said Antti Korhonen, president and CEO
of Ekahau. "Not only can they quickly and cost-effectively deploy new
applications - like the Indra's panic button application - but new
applications can easily be added to improve reporting, compliance and
workflow within a healthcare setting."

With this pioneering Spanish healthcare deployment, the 12 de
Octubre Hospital will provide its emergency room personnel with Ekahau Wi-Fi
tags that include a "panic button" that can be pushed in the event of a
security concern, such as assault or robbery. This panic button application
will alert the hospital's security department, enabling them to know exactly
where the incident has occurred and respond promptly.

The panic button application in use at 12 de Octubre Hospital
is just one module of the Indra Localiza(R) Suite (ILS), which is based on
the Ekahau Positioning Engine. The solution also enables hospitals to use the
same Wi-Fi infrastructure to create secure access zones within a building. By
doing this, users can detect unauthorized access to restricted areas and
track the location of assets to prevent loss or theft of critical equipment.
Additionally, the Ekahau location tracking solution can be integrated with IP
telephony systems, enabling users to receive alerts and manage the system
from a Wi-Fi smartphone or dual-mode GSM/Wi-Fi phone.

"Ekahau RTLS provided our development team with one of the
most powerful and flexible API software interfaces, enabling us to quickly
and easily integrate the Ekahau Positioning Engine into our application
layer," said Jose Antelo, responsible for Solutions Development in Corporate
Networking at Indra. "Another advantage to partnering with Ekahau is that its
solution provides the best level of accuracy available in the market over
standard WLAN access points and requires no additional infrastructure
deployment to track assets down to the room level."

About Indra

Indra is the premier information technology company in Spain
and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America. It is ranked as
the second European company in its sector, according to stock market
capitalization, and is one of the three Spanish companies with more
investment in R&D. In 2007, revenues exceeded euro 2,167 million, of which a
third came from the international market. The company employs more than
23,000 professionals and has clients in more than 82 countries. For more
information about INDRA please visit http://www.indra.es

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

(c) Copyright 2008, Ekahau, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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