AeroScout Wins Contract for New Combined GPS and Wi-Fi Visibility Solution With 309th...

AeroScout Wins Contract for New Combined GPS and Wi-Fi Visibility Solution With 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group

Using AeroScout's GPS and Wi-Fi Solution, Customer to Track and
Manage Assets Across 110 Million Square-Foot Facility at Davis-Monthan
Air Force Base
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
AeroScout, Inc., the leading provider of Unified Asset Visibility
for improving operational efficiency and quality, today announced a
new solution that combines GPS with Wi-Fi. The innovative solution
enables accurate asset tracking and management in very large outdoor
environments, and has been selected by the 309th Aerospace Maintenance
and Regeneration Group (AMARG) to help improve productivity and
operations at a 110 million square-foot outdoor facility at the
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The large-scale deployment
will initially include 1,000 AeroScout GPS Wi-Fi tags that will
provide the 309th AMARG with visibility and management of essential
support equipment.

The new GPS and Wi-Fi solution builds on AeroScout's Unified Asset
Visibility (UAV) offerings and strategy of combining multiple data
sources and technologies into one Wi-Fi-based system. The solution
includes mobile, battery-powered tags that use both GPS to determine
location in any outdoor environment and standard Wi-Fi to transport
asset location and other valuable information to the customer's
network. The GPS and Wi-Fi combination delivers a cost-effective
solution for the 309th AMARG, in part by leveraging its existing Wi-Fi
access points and network.

The 309th AMARG stores thousands of aircraft and aircraft parts at
an outdoor facility at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona
that covers 2,600 acres -- or more than 110 million square feet. In
order to perform periodic maintenance on the inventory and quickly
fill aircraft orders from various military branches, workers must
locate specific aircraft, parts and support equipment. Manually
locating particular items in the very large storage facility has been
a difficult and time-consuming process. In the first phase of the
implementation, AeroScout's GPS Wi-Fi solution will increase the 309th
AMARG's operational efficiency by tracking the precise location of
essential support equipment. In addition, automated inventory reports
will help support staff in their daily decision-making.

The 309th AMARG will initially deploy 1,000 AeroScout GPS Wi-Fi
tags. The solution will leverage the facility's existing Wi-Fi network
and 42 access points with high gain antennas, which are also used for
data communication. Using AeroScout's MobileView 4.0 software, staff
will be able to easily search for, locate and manage essential
equipment. Because AeroScout's RFID solutions have been developed and
proven to handle tens of thousands of tagged items, the 309th AMARG
will be able to meet both its current and future needs. AeroScout's
scalable solution will help the 309th AMARG improve staff productivity
and operations, while taking advantage of its Wi-Fi infrastructure and
GPS to keep total costs low.

"Leveraging Wi-Fi networks is key to deploying Unified Asset
Visibility solutions, and it ensures enterprises maintain visibility
in any environment. This allows organizations to access the variety of
information they need, such as GPS coordinates, without the
complication and cost of multiple solutions," said Gabi Daniely, VP of
Marketing and Product Strategy at AeroScout. "By bringing together GPS
and Wi-Fi, we're further expanding the range of applications for UAV,
and we're pleased to bring these offerings and the value they deliver
to the 309th AMARG."

About AeroScout

AeroScout is the market leader in Unified Asset Visibility
solutions. Clients improve operational efficiency and quality using
AeroScout products that leverage standard Wi-Fi networks to track and
manage the location, condition and status of mobile assets and people.
AeroScout's global customer base consists of leading hospital,
manufacturing and logistics organizations, including many of the
Fortune 500. The company originally invented the first Wi-Fi-based
Active RFID tag, and today is widely recognized as leading the market
in number of deployments and tags shipped. Headquartered in Redwood
City, Calif., AeroScout has offices in Europe, Asia, the Middle East,
Latin America and Australia. For more information, please visit
www.aeroscout.com.

AeroScout is a registered trademark of AeroScout, Inc. Wi-Fi is a
trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. All other trademarks are the property
of their respective owners. Information is subject to change without
notice.

LEWIS PR for AeroScout
Peter Gray, 415-992-4400
aeroscout@lewispr.com

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