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| Ekahau Launches iIs Real Time Location System Solution Ekahau Inc. has announced that its Real Time Location System solution (RTLS) is ready for installations in underground mining and tunnel work sites to track the accurate location and movement of miners in real time. The Ekahau system is the only available technology on the market that can leverage any brand of existing Wi-Fi networks inside a mine to locate persons and emergency equipment, without the need for any proprietary hardware or system installations. Ekahau has deployed its RTLS system in several underground tunnel and mining sites worldwide already. Wi-Fi networks are being used increasingly in mines worldwide, especially for Voice over IP (VoIP) phone uses. This proliferation of Wi-Fi networks creates a standard wireless infrastructure for Ekahau RTLS to be used for safety tracking purposes. Ekahau's wireless tracker device for miners is a small battery powered Wi-Fi tag (called the Ekahau T201) which features a call button. In case of emergency, the miner can push the call button and the tag will send an alarm as well as its exact location to a remote server which is usually located safely outside of the underground operation. Other staff using wireless computers can access the location information on internal web pages from within the mines by simply pointing their web browsers to an intranet page. The movement and location of each tagged miner is tracked in a database and shown on a visual map on a computer screen. In the event of a disaster, the last known location of the miners will be mapped, even if the Wi-Fi network has collapsed inside the mine. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |