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PanGo Integrates Active and Passive RFID for a better location-management platform

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Las Vegas – “Empowering employees and systems with information about what’s happening in the real world is critical” said Mike McGuinness, CEO of PanGo Networks. “The missing piece has always been a unified view of the real-time location of critical resources. By leveraging multiple locationing capabilities through a single platform architecture, our customers can develop, deploy and manage cost-effective solutions that enable real-time visibility throughout their entire operations.?

That’s the scoop from Las Vegas, where PanGo is demonstrating PanOS Platform and asset tracking applications at the RFID Journal LIVE annual conference.

The Framingham, Mass. Company’s new PanOS software platform got bigger and better this Spring. Now, for the first time, applications used by hospitals, manufacturers and third-party solution providers can tap standards-based active and passive RFID technologies from a single platform. This reportedly reduces the number of assets that can be tracked, eliminating “the need for proprietary choke point or portal solutions that add complexity and cost to corporate networks.” [end] 

The Basque National Health System has launched a neonatal security system designed to monitor and protect new-born infants using RFID technology.

When a pregnant woman is admitted to hospital, she is provided a tag with a unique identification which can be read in all the maternity zones. When the baby is born, an RFID tag specially designed for the new born is fitted to its ankle. The device monitors the infant 24 hours a day, detecting unauthorized movements, registering entries and exits to and from and enabling immediate location information.

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Intelligent InSites has incorporated Pentaho Corporation’s business analytics into its platform in an effort to automate real-time location systems (RTLS) data analysis and provide enhanced business intelligence tools for health care providers.

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Intelligent InSites Inc. announced a partnership with Singapore-based real-time location system (RTLS) provider Cadi Scientific to integrate Cadi’s RFID technology with the InSites RTLS software solution.

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Zebra and Checkpoint Systems have entered into a cooperative relationship and licensing agreement. While the exact terms of the transaction were not disclosed, the relationship does bring together Zebra’s active location solutions with Checkpoint division OATSystems’ passive RFID, auto-ID and sensor capabilities.

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VingCard Elsafe, provider of hospitality security and part of ASSA ABLOY Group, has been selected by Grand Hyatt San Francisco to provide a complete package of VingCard Elsafe solutions for installation as part of the renovation of its 659 guestrooms.

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East Coast Diversified Corporation has re-launched its StudentConnect platform, formerly known as SchoolsConnects, and announced a multi-phase implementation program beginning with integration of the Twitter API onto the StudentConnect Platform.

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