Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre Deploys Ekahau RTLS to Improve Patient and Staff Safety

By Ekahau Inc., PRNE
Monday, June 14, 2010

Leading Canadian Mental Health Center Uses Ekahau Badge Tags and Wi-Fi-based Location Tracking Technology to Speed Response Times When Patients and Staff Need Assistance

RESTON, Virginia, June 15, 2010 - Ekahau Inc., the performance leader in Wi-Fi-based Real Time
Location Systems (RTLS), today announced that the Royal Ottawa Mental Health
Centre (ROMHC), a provider of specialized mental health services in Eastern
Ontario, Canada
, is utilizing Ekahau RTLS to improve patient and staff
safety. The Ekahau RTLS solution, which includes the Ekahau T301BD pager tags
worn by hospital staff, will enable faster response times when patients or
staff need assistance by pinpointing their location.

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"At the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, we use cutting-edge
technologies to help us improve patient care, increase efficiency and ensure
the safety of everyone at our facilities, and we continually seek innovations
to support these goals," said Cal Crocker, vice president of Corporate
Services and chief financial officer at Royal Ottawa Health Care Group.
"Ekahau RTLS and its badge tags are an ideal fit for this strategy, allowing
us to leverage our existing Wi-Fi network for advanced location tracking
applications."

Ekahau RTLS is the only Wi-Fi-based location tracking solution
that can operate over any Wi-Fi network, regardless of brand or generation.
Because it is standards-based, Ekahau RTLS can be quickly deployed in a
matter of days or weeks, eliminating the expense and time required by other
systems to install readers, cabling, choke points and exciters. Ekahau RTLS
provides the best accuracy in the industry, enabling users to pinpoint
location down to the sub-room level. The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
has deployed Ekahau RTLS over its existing, facility-wide Wi-Fi network.

The Ekahau T301BD Wi-Fi pager tags include a dedicated button
than can be pressed in the event of an emergency, to alert staff of the
situation and where it is happening. The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
has more than 300 tags in use now by its staff.

"We are pleased to be working with Royal Ottawa Mental Health
Centre on an application that enhances patient care and provides for greater
staff safety throughout the entire facility," said Tuomo Rutanen, senior vice
president of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development for Ekahau.
"Ekahau's tags and superior location accuracy combine to deliver a
state-of-the-art safety solution for health care facilities, like the Royal
Ottawa Mental Health Centre."

About Royal Ottawa Health Care Group

The Royal provides specialized mental health services for
residents of communities across Eastern Ontario with complex and serious
mental illnesses. The Royal's clinicians work with community partners to
ensure patients/clients receive timely access to various models of treatment
including inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, day hospital,
assertive community treatment, outreach and consultation. The Royal also
conducts leading edge mental health research and is a teaching hospital of
the University of Ottawa with links to additional academic institutions.

About Ekahau Inc.

Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing Wi-Fi-based
RTLS solutions. Ekahau's RTLS technology is routinely recognized for its
superior performance in customer benchmarking and competitive evaluations of
Wi-Fi-based location tracking solutions. Ekahau's customers, including
several Fortune 500 companies worldwide, are realizing the benefits of Wi-Fi
based location services and innovative Wi-Fi network planning and
optimization tools. Ekahau's solutions are being used in more than 200
hospitals around the world, as well as by manufacturers, mining/oil/gas
companies, government agencies and the military. Ekahau partners include
wireless software developers, leading system integrators and international
OEM partners, who develop and market wireless enterprise applications. Ekahau
is a U.S. based corporation, with offices in Saratoga, Calif.; Reston, Va.;
Helsinki, Finland; and Hong Kong, China. For more information about Ekahau,
please visit at www.ekahau.com.

(c) Copyright 2010, Ekahau, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Media Contacts: Juliet Travis, Rocket Science PR, for Ekahau, +1-415-464-8110 x 215, juliet(at)rocketscience.com; Annina Pierson, Marketing Director, Ekahau, +358-20-743-5910, annina.pierson(at)ekahau.com

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