Ekahau Inc. is a renowned Wi-FI Real Time Location Systems provider. The company recently announced its RTLS solution that includes Wi-Fi call buttons and badges for the staff members of the Espirito Santo Saude hospital. It is the biggest private healthcare group that is in operation in entire Portugal and has around 15 healthcare units and two senior residences. The Ekahu RTLS would be used for several purposes in the member hospitals.

One of the main functions of this technology would be empowering the mobile patients to ask for a nurse and make emergency notifications for staff members. Unisys has taken the complete responsibility of system integration of this solution. Cisco Systems are the providers of the underlying Wi-Fi network. Ekahau RTLS provides great cost advantage over other RTLS solutions in the market as it only needs the software and Wi-Fi tags in order to locate asset or people in the Wi-Fi network of any vendor.

It also uses minimal number of Wi-Fi access points and can deliver high levels of performance which you generally do not associate with other solutions that are available in the market. The WPA2 encryption makes its tags very secure and gives it the ability to work without any network operation interference. ESSAUDE has been deploying Ekahau call buttons in the walls and rooms of the senior residence so that they can call help. There are some residents who have the T301BD badges that enable them to call for help when they are on the move within the facility.