RESTON, Virginia, January 7 /PRNewswire/ --

- Multi-Year Agreement Allows UHC Member Hospitals to Quickly Deploy
Wi-Fi-based Location Tracking and Build Foundation for Future Applications

Ekahau Inc., a leading provider of Wi-Fi-based Real Time
Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that after a competitive bid process
it was awarded a multi-year agreement with University HealthSystem Consortium
(UHC) to provide the Ekahau Real Time Location System (RTLS) solution to UHC
member hospitals.

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This three-year agreement, with options to extend, positions
Ekahau as the preferred provider of RTLS solutions to UHC's 294 member
hospitals throughout the United States. Many of these institutions have Wi-Fi
in place today making Ekahau's WI-Fi-based RTLS solution a logical choice for
a cost-effective, quick deployment. Ekahau also has mutual certifications
with all leading Wi-Fi infrastructure providers, further endorsing the
benefits of Ekahau's location tracking solution to UHC and its member
hospitals.

RTLS systems have become a mainstream technology in hospitals
across the U.S. for tracking assets, inventory and patients and knowing the
whereabouts of key staff members. Knowing the real-time whereabouts of these
key assets has become mission critical to healthcare institutions, helping
them reduce costs, improve workflow and increase the quality and timeliness
of patient care.

"UHC is excited about entering into a new agreement with
Ekahau because we believe they are one of the best RTLS system providers for
our member hospitals," said Cindy White, UHC's vice president of operations.
"We wanted a system that can cater to the unique tracking needs of each of
our member hospitals and yet be simple and cost-effective to deploy."

Ekahau RTLS is a unique tracking system because it can locate
objects using a hospital's existing Wi-Fi network, regardless of vendor or
generation of the infrastructure. The Ekahau system is the only Wi-Fi-based
system on the market that is capable of providing room-level accuracy using
Wi-Fi without deploying proprietary chokepoints or readers, which can cause
interference with medical equipment. Since Wi-Fi is typically deployed
hospitalwide, Ekahau RTLS can extend location visibility across the entire
campus or several campuses without any additional costs.

"We are very honored that UHC selected Ekahau as its RTLS
partner of choice and to have the opportunity to serve the organization's
member hospitals. The program we have put into place with UHC will allow UHC
members to easily procure and roll out RTLS solutions to meet immediate needs
and to have a platform for future growth and expandability as new
requirements are put forth," said Tuomo Rutanen, Ekahau's vice president of
business development. "During challenging economic times, like those we're
experiencing today, RTLS systems can help businesses of all types save money.
By leveraging existing Wi-Fi networks, Ekahau RTLS allows hospitals to better
utilize their existing assets, resulting in lower capital spending, while
driving significant operational efficiencies that reduce expenses and support
improved patient care and safety initiatives."

Ekahau holds more than a dozen patents on its core location
algorithms and processes that allow for the full modeling and analysis of RF
data from the Wi-Fi network. Ekahau also offers the broadest set of Wi-Fi
tags available to meet user- or application-specific needs. This powerful
combination of software and hardware has been selected by thousands of
customers worldwide to solve everyday business and operational problems.

About UHC

The University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC), formed in 1984,
is an alliance of 103 academic medical centers and 191 of their affiliated
hospitals representing approximately 90 percent of the nation's nonprofit
academic medical centers. UHC offers its members specific programs and
services to improve clinical, operational, and patient safety performance.
The mission of UHC is to advance knowledge, foster collaboration, and promote
change to help members succeed in their respective markets. For more
information, visit http://www.uhc.edu.

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 150 hospitals around the world, as well as by
manufacturers, mining/oil/gas 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
offices in Saratoga, Calif.; Reston, Va.; Helsinki, Finland; and Hong Kong,
China. For more information about Ekahau, please visit at
http://www.ekahau.com.

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