AeroScout Strengthens Position in Europe Through Strategic Partnerships With Industry Leaders

BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AeroScout, Inc., the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility for improving operational efficiency, today announced that it has expanded its partner ecosystem in Europe through strategic partnerships with Dimension Data, Hewlett Packard, NextiraOne and Telindus. The companies have all become AeroScout Gold-Level Value Added Resellers and will offer AeroScout’s Wi-Fi Active RFID solutions to organizations across Europe in healthcare, manufacturing, logistics and other industries.

“Since AeroScout solutions leverage standard Wi-Fi networks, we’re able to provide our clients with valuable asset tracking and visibility solutions in a cost-effective manner.”

“AeroScout’s solutions perfectly complement our offerings and give us more ways to help our customers succeed,” said Jochen Chaloupka, manager, business development, at Hewlett Packard. “As the market leader in Unified Asset Visibility, AeroScout has a track record of driving lean manufacturing for industrial clients, patient care for hospitals and reducing operational costs across all types of European clients.”

AeroScout offers a range of solutions for the real-time tracking and visibility of the location, status and condition of mobile assets and people, including:

Asset Management
Equipment Maintenance
Condition Monitoring (Temperature, Humidity)
Patient and Staff Safety
Workflow and Resource Management

AeroScout’s MobileView software is available in many different language versions, including French, German, Portuguese and Spanish.

Organizations across a range of industries rely on AeroScout solutions to operate more efficiently, improve staff productivity, optimize use of assets and comply with regulatory requirements. AeroScout is the worldwide market leader in Wi-Fi Active RFID solutions, with the most deployments and greatest number of tags shipped. The company is well established in the European market, with customers throughout the region, including some of the world’s largest Active RFID deployments, each with more than 15,000 assets tracked.

“AeroScout’s asset tracking and visibility solutions are very appealing to companies looking for ways to reduce costs and streamline operations,” said Andris Berzins, vice president, EMEA, at AeroScout. “AeroScout already has a strong and growing presence in Europe. Recently announced customers include Regional Hospital St. Trudo and Jan Yperman Hospital, both in Belgium. With demand for our solutions continuing to increase in the region, we’re excited to partner with these industry leading networking providers and systems integrators.”

Dimension Data, Hewlett Packard, NextiraOne and Telindus are among dozens of top tier partners offering AeroScout solutions to complement their WLAN and networking platforms, industry expertise and integration services. AeroScout partners are able to offer customers a broad range of solutions and to deliver value leveraging Wi-Fi networks for Active RFID solutions. The partnerships enhance AeroScout’s European-wide ecosystem and provide clients with local support and expertise.

“We’re pleased to partner with AeroScout because of its strong offerings and its leadership position in the European market and globally,” said Nadeem Ahmad, director, global technology, at Dimension Data. “Since AeroScout solutions leverage standard Wi-Fi networks, we’re able to provide our clients with valuable asset tracking and visibility solutions in a cost-effective manner.”

AeroScout will be showcasing its solutions at the Cisco Networkers 2009 conference in Barcelona, Spain, January 26-29, 2009, in booth #E7.

About AeroScout

AeroScout is the market leader in Unified Asset Visibility solutions. Customers improve operational efficiency using AeroScout products that leverage standard Wi-Fi networks to track and manage the location, condition and status of mobile assets and people. AeroScout’s global customer base consists of leading hospital, manufacturing and logistics organizations, including many of the Fortune 500. The company originally invented the first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and today is widely recognized as leading the market in number of deployments and tags shipped. Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., AeroScout has offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Australia. For more information, please visit www.aeroscout.com.

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