The Ohio State University Medical Center Leverages Expansive Wi-Fi Network to Track and Manage Medical Equipment, Improve Workflow and Increase Staff and Patient Safety Using Ekahau RTLS

Ekahau Standards-Based Location Technology Combines With Cisco Wi-Fi Network to Drive Operational Efficiencies and Reduce Costs

RESTON, Virginia, January 5 - Ekahau Inc., the performance leader in Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location
Systems (RTLS), today announced that The Ohio State University (OSU) Medical
Center has selected the Ekahau RTLS solution as the foundation for enabling
a wide variety of location tracking applications across its 5 million square
foot campus.

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For the past five years, OSU Medical Center has been named one of the
country's "Most Wired Hospitals" by Hospital & Health Networks, the journal
of the American Hospital Association. Hospitals earn this prestigious
designation through the inventive use of wireless and Internet technologies.
The decision to deploy Ekahau RTLS for location tracking applications is
further evidence of the ways in which OSU Medical Center is an innovation
leader, utilizing information technology to achieve greater operational
efficiencies, reduce overall costs and improve patient care and safety.

In mid-2009, OSU Medical Center's IT department evaluated a select few
Wi-Fi-based RTLS solutions that could leverage the hospital's system-wide,
medical-grade Wi-Fi network from Cisco Systems Inc. OSU Medical Center has
deployed approximately 3,000 WI-Fi access points and 30 network controllers
as part of a mission to unwire their entire campus. Ekahau RTLS was chosen
because of its superior location accuracy, ability to monitor location of
assets across multiple buildings on campus and at far-flung satellite
locations, and the fact it did not require additional investment in
proprietary hardware, such as sensors or chokepoints and could yet deliver
the accuracy needed to satisfy OSU Medical Center's requirements.

"We chose to leverage a Wi-Fi-based system for a number of reasons: It
enables us to get full coverage out of the box; it supports advanced
capabilities, such as two-way messaging; and it can provide room-level and
sub-room location accuracy where needed," said Chad Neal, Director of
Technology at OSU Medical Center. "Ekahau's Wi-Fi-based approach for RTLS
gives us the flexibility to deploy tags and services anywhere, anytime
without having to incur additional infrastructure costs and determine how
to allocate those costs across multiple departments in a large organization,
such as ours."

OSU Medical Center will begin the first phase of deploying the Ekahau
RTLS system this month, starting with tracking and managing of a thousand key
clinical assets, such as compression devices, IV pumps and isolation carts
among other things. The hospital then will subsequently deploy additional
Ekahau tags on variety of mobile medical equipment, ranging from robotic
delivery systems to wheelchairs. Ekahau RTLS also is expected to be used to
track the location of patients, to ensure safety and improve care. Two-way
communications capabilities inherent in Ekahau RTLS will support staff
safety and Wi-Fi-paging applications, as well. Within the next few years,
OSU Medical Center estimates that the Ekahau RTLS solution will be used
track more than 15,000 items and individuals, delivering efficiencies,
improving safety and lowering costs across the entire system.

The Ekahau RTLS solution provides OSU Medical Center with a wide range of
information about the location and status of all tracked items and
individuals, or events logged on the system. In addition to built-in
reporting, Ekahau's XML API provides OSU Medical Center the ability to then
perform their own analytics on anything being tracked, in order to evaluate
where efficiencies could be gained or procedures improved. The API also
enables the hospital to integrate Ekahau's location data into other systems
within the hospital.

"The large, widespread OSU Medical Center campus is a perfect place to
showcase the strengths of Ekahau RTLS," said Tuomo Rutanen, senior vice
president of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development for Ekahau. "Our
Wi-Fi, standards-based solution makes it easy to deploy location tracking
applications campuswide within a matter of weeks, and eliminates all the
hidden costs and delays related to other systems that require additional
hardware to be installed in every room."

About The Ohio State University Medical Center

Located in Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University Medical Center is
one of the largest and most diverse academic medical centers in the country
and the only academic medical center in central Ohio. OSU Medical Center is
among only 21 hospitals in the country named to U.S. News & World Report's
elite Honor Roll, which demonstrates a hospital's excellence in at least six
specialties. This is the 17th consecutive year the magazine has named OSU
Medical Center one of "America's Best Hospitals." OSU Medical Center is
consistently recognized as one of the nation's top 100 "Most Wired"
hospitals, according to Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the
American Hospital Association and has been awarded the CIO 100 Award by CIO
magazine in 2006 and 2008.

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 150 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.

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    Rocket Science PR, for Ekahau
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U.S. Media Contact: Juliet Travis, Rocket Science PR, for Ekahau, +1-415-464-8110 x 215,
juliet at rocketscience.com