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OATSystems, Cisco Collaborate to Let Companies Take RFID beyond Basic Location Tracking
Mobility solution enables OATSystems' customers run RFID applications on Unified Wireless Network, gather detailed asset information such as location, temperature and availability
Waltham, MA — May 28, 2008 — Radio frequency identification specialist OATSystems is teaming up with Cisco Systems to offer a solution aimed at letting its customers move beyond basic location tracking to gather detailed asset information such as location, temperature and availability.
OAT is integrating Cisco's just-announced Context-aware Mobility Solution with its own OATindustrial RFID applications. Cisco Context-Aware Software captures contextual information from a range of sensors, mobile devices and RFID tags.
The partnership with Cisco will let OAT customers run their mission-critical RFID applications over the Cisco Unified Wireless Network today and virtually any wireless network in the future, OAT said.
Many of OAT's customers track work-in-process and finished products with OATSystems RFID solutions using large-scale networks to obtain enterprise-wide visibility across their supply chains. Today, OAT supports heterogeneous or multi-modal asset tracking, where customers can use barcodes; passive, active and WiFi RFID technologies; or any combination thereof.
Cisco's Context-Aware Mobility Solution, with its open API running on the Mobility Services Engine, will help OAT integrate more tightly with its customers' networks and need, enabling its customers to use OAT's RFID solutions in virtually any RFID or wireless environment, the solution provider said.
The OATindustrial solutions track parts and assemblies through the production cycle and are intended to help organizations gain a new level of control over manufacturing operations and reduce operating costs.
OAT's Asset Tracking solution tracks the movement of assets or reusable containers from suppliers, to warehouses and through key production stages covering an enterprise's value chain. Its Work-In-Process solution is designed to streamline operations and accelerate output in a manufacturing environment.
OAT is integrating Cisco's just-announced Context-aware Mobility Solution with its own OATindustrial RFID applications. Cisco Context-Aware Software captures contextual information from a range of sensors, mobile devices and RFID tags.
The partnership with Cisco will let OAT customers run their mission-critical RFID applications over the Cisco Unified Wireless Network today and virtually any wireless network in the future, OAT said.
Many of OAT's customers track work-in-process and finished products with OATSystems RFID solutions using large-scale networks to obtain enterprise-wide visibility across their supply chains. Today, OAT supports heterogeneous or multi-modal asset tracking, where customers can use barcodes; passive, active and WiFi RFID technologies; or any combination thereof.
Cisco's Context-Aware Mobility Solution, with its open API running on the Mobility Services Engine, will help OAT integrate more tightly with its customers' networks and need, enabling its customers to use OAT's RFID solutions in virtually any RFID or wireless environment, the solution provider said.
The OATindustrial solutions track parts and assemblies through the production cycle and are intended to help organizations gain a new level of control over manufacturing operations and reduce operating costs.
OAT's Asset Tracking solution tracks the movement of assets or reusable containers from suppliers, to warehouses and through key production stages covering an enterprise's value chain. Its Work-In-Process solution is designed to streamline operations and accelerate output in a manufacturing environment.
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