U.K.-based Airetrak, a provider of Wi-Fi based real time locating systems for the healthcare sector, has enhanced its ResourceView information solution with Wi-Fi Temperature Monitoring functionality. Read »

Flagler Hospital in St. Augustine, Fla., has joined the growing ranks of hospitals nationwide that are leveraging their Wi-Fi networks for data and voice communications. Read »

Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma, La., is reporting an increase in responsiveness to compliance standards since implementing the condition monitoring feature that Trapeze Networks rolled out earlier this month as an addition to its ActiveAsset tracking and management application. The new feature extends the app's tracking capability to help users meet regulatory requirements for monitoring temperature fluctuations of medical refrigeration and freezer units. Read »

Ekahau is expanding its hardware line with what company officials are calling an industry first--a wristband format Wi-Fi tag. The Wi-Fi-based RTLS vendor just unveiled the T301W, a wristband tag that is designed for use in applications that determine the precise location of people in hospitals and other settings. Combined with the recently launched Ekahau room and bed beacons, the wristband tags guarantee precise location capabilities down to less than a few feet. Read »

Telehealth has garnered a lot of positive press lately, but the hits just keep on coming. The latest success story concerns a 61-year-old New York woman, who just made history as the first person in the United States to be implanted with a pacemaker containing a wireless home monitoring system that transmits critical information to her doctor via the Internet. Read »

All vendors talk of capturing market share from competitors, but Aruba Networks' move to garner more than 20 percent of the wireless local area network market over the next 12 to 24 months is based on a string of recent successes that can't be ignored. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of wireless LANs and secure mobility solutions, which draws more than 20 percent of its revenue from non-traditional enterprises such as healthcare and education, is betting the farm on the 802.11n standard. Read »

The energy shortage and out-of-control healthcare spending have governments and the private sector scrambling to develop smart technologies such as Wireless Sensor Networking (WSN), according to market research firm ON World, which predicts that in 2012 global WSN products and services for the smart home will be worth $6 billion. Read »

It wasn’t that long ago that the convergence of VoIP and WLAN tech meant dealing with proprietary equipment, weak security, and a lack of scalable network management tools. But, as an article in Enterprise Networking Planet points out, the VoWLAN landscape is changing rapidly with evolving standards, new equipment, and the arrival of some decent management tools. As key market verticals, including healthcare, contend with the rapid adoption of laptop computers, Wi-Fi-enabled mobile handsets and other devices, it’s easy to see why unified communications and videoconferencing specialist Polycom recently declared: VoIP is the future. Read »

Half of Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 have broadband Internet access at home, according to a recent Pew Internet & American Life Project study. Among those 50 and older, the growth rate in home broadband adoption from 2007 to 2008 was 26 percent. This rapid growth in broadband connections that utilize Wi-Fi is key to delivering the high performance technologies needed to support aging in place. Read »

What do you get when you join a developer of ultra low power multi-standard OFDM and MIMO silicon-based solutions for Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3GPP LTE with a leading provider of on-site wireless communications for healthcare and other industries? Next-generation Voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWiFi) phones with 802.11n wireless connectivity, if all goes according to plan. Read »