Administering and controlling a substantial asset base is often both complex and expensive. Locating and identifying equipment when needed for inventory checks, utilisation, maintenance or upgrades can be difficult and extremely time consuming. In some cases it might be necessary to purchase substitutes for mislaid equipment resulting in escalating inventory, maintenance, and storage and management costs. Theft of vital assets, on the other hand, might remain undiscovered until needed in an emergency.

Ekahau’s Real Time Location Software (RTLS) offers an attractive and realistic solution that would reduce the cost burden of surplus equipment whilst making the management of assets easier and far more efficient.

Together with Ekahau ANT Telecom helped organisations to:

• Protect investment of owned, leased or rented equipment.
• Reduce running costs and increase operational efficiencies.
• Enhance management services and improve the delivery of customer service.
• Utilise existing WLAN infrastructure for an integrated RTLS.
• Centrally manage, monitor and control asset movement and activities, with 'real-time' visual data access.
• Automatically escalate predefined security parameters through email, SMS or equivalent messaging systems.

System Components

An Ekahau RTLS solution is made up of the following key components:

• Ekahau Positioning Engine (EPE) server software calculates the location from Wi-Fi signals More information
• Ekahau Tags attached to assets or carried by people to enable them to be located within any Wi-Fi network by the positioning software

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