Hospital cold storage preserves drugs, organs, blood and tissue samples, and typically a hospital technician makes weekly rounds to see if the equipment is functioning properly.  Earlier this year, Ekahau, a maker of real time location systems, introduced its temperature monitoring tag that works over a WiFi installation to constantly monitor temperatures between 200 below zero to 200 above zero C.  Besides safeguarding valuable perishables, this reduces those weekly rounds.   MORE

Tuomo Rutanen, senior vice president of Marketing and Business Development for Ekahau,   “Our Wireless Temperature Monitoring and Management solution is the most advanced Wi-Fi solution in the marketplace today, providing enhanced alert delivery both locally on the tag itself, as well as through the network to a multitude of devices including PCs, wireless phones and Ekahau’s T-301BD Wi-Fi pagers.”