Why Wifi Tracking?

Why WiFi Tracking?

Airetrak have developed an Asset tracking solution that works across standard 802.11 centralised wireless LAN, enabling an implementation up to 80% cheaper than previous RTLS solutions.

Asset tracking has historically been expensive, requiring the installation of proprietary readers across the area to be tracked. In the last 18 months, however, a number of factors have converged to make asset tracking now an attractive proposition for many UK organisations:

• Technology standardisation: active tags will now run over standard 802.11 Wireless LAN networks, avoiding expensive proprietary infrastructure costs
• Technology developments: technological improvements have reduced the WiFi tag size significantly and increased the battery life to up to 7 years
• Mass production: the cost of the tags has fallen significantly making them cost effective for high value assets

By using Airetrak’s solution over Cisco 802.11 wireless LANs, organisations can see significant returns on investment, often within 1 year. The Airetrak solution can share the standard 802.11 infrastructure with other applications such as voice, to reduce overall cost.