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"At the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, we use cutting-edgetechnologies to help us improve patient care, increase efficiency and ensurethe safety of everyone at our facilities, and we continually seek innovationsto support these goals," said Cal Crocker, vice president of CorporateServices and chief financial officer at Royal Ottawa Health Care Group."Ekahau RTLS and its badge tags are an ideal fit for this strategy, allowingus to leverage our existing Wi-Fi network for advanced location trackingapplications."
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Ekahau RTLS is the only Wi-Fi-based location tracking solution that canoperate over any Wi-Fi network, regardless of brand or generation. Because itis standards-based, Ekahau RTLS can be quickly deployed in a matter of daysor weeks, eliminating the expense and time required by other systems toinstall readers, cabling, choke points and exciters. Ekahau RTLS provides thebest accuracy in the industry, enabling users to pinpoint location down tothe sub-room level. The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre has deployed EkahauRTLS over its existing, facility-wide Wi-Fi network.
The Ekahau T301BD Wi-Fi pager tags include a dedicated button than can bepressed in the event of an emergency, to alert staff of the situation andwhere it is happening. The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre has more than300 tags in use now by its staff.
"We are pleased to be working with Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre onan application that enhances patient care and provides for greater staffsafety throughout the entire facility," said Tuomo Rutanen, senior vicepresident of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development for Ekahau."Ekahau's tags and superior location accuracy combine to deliver astate-of-the-art safety solution for health care facilities, like the RoyalOttawa Mental Health Centre."
About Royal Ottawa Health Care Group
The Royal provides specialized mental health services for residents ofcommunities across Eastern Ontario with complex and serious mental illnesses.The Royal's clinicians work with community partners to ensurepatients/clients receive timely access to various models of treatmentincluding inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, day hospital,assertive community treatment, outreach and consultation. The Royal alsoconducts leading edge mental health research and is a teaching hospital ofthe University of Ottawa with links to additional academic institutions.
About Ekahau Inc.
Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing Wi-Fi-based RTLSsolutions. Ekahau's RTLS technology is routinely recognized for its superiorperformance in customer benchmarking and competitive evaluations ofWi-Fi-based location tracking solutions. Ekahau's customers, includingseveral Fortune 500 companies worldwide, are realizing the benefits of Wi-Fibased location services and innovative Wi-Fi network planning andoptimization tools. Ekahau's solutions are being used in more than 200hospitals around the world, as well as by manufacturers, mining/oil/gascompanies, government agencies and the military. Ekahau partners includewireless software developers, leading system integrators and internationalOEM partners, who develop and market wireless enterprise applications. Ekahauis 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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