Ekahau Receives TMCÂ’s Best Product of the Year Award 200
Ekahau, the world's leading provider of wireless positioning technology, today announced that Ekahau Positioning Engine™2.0 has won the "Best Product of the Year 2002 Award" at Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)'s Planet PDA: The Global Summit on Enterprise & Custom Volume Handheld Computing Solutions.
(PRWEB) March 1, 2003
SARATOGA, CA, FEBRUARY 27, 2003 - Ekahau, the world's leading provider of wireless positioning technology, today announced that Ekahau Positioning Engine™2.0 has won the "Best Product of the Year 2002 Award" at Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)'s Planet PDA: The Global Summit on Enterprise & Custom Volume Handheld Computing Solutions.
Ekahau's winning product, the Ekahau Positioning Engine™ (EPE), offers patent-pending positioning technology. It is a software-only solution, and requires no proprietary hardware beyond the standard Wi-Fi network. The EPE provides leading positioning accuracy of 3.5 feet (1 meter) in pinpointing the location of wireless PDAs, laptops, and other 802.11-enabled devices. Ekahau's cost-effective positioning solution enables variety of location-based applications in several industry segments, such as retail and healthcare industries, warehousing, distribution logistics, museums, and public events.
After the EPE was launched in April 2002, Ekahau was selected as a Top 20 IT company in Europe. Ekahau has also been awarded for the best commercialized innovation in Finland in 2002. The award was presented by the Software Industry 2002 Helsinki Summit on last December. The first commercial deliveries of the EPE were made in Summer 2002. Ekahau has distributed thousands of evaluation versions of the EPE for trial use around the world, and the number of commercial customers is growing rapidly.
TMCÂ’s Best Product of the Year 2002 award emphasizes technological innovation, sensible form factors, and practical applicability. TMCÂ’s next Planet PDA will be held May 19-22, 2003 at the Sheraton Ferncroft Resort in Danvers, Massachusetts, just minutes from downtown Boston. You are welcome to visit Ekahau booth # 111. For information about the event, please visit www. planetpdaexpo. com
About Ekahau, Inc.
Ekahau, Inc. is the industry leader in positioning in Wi-Fi networks. Ekahau's customers are wireless software developers, leading system integrators, and international OEM partners, who develop and market the next generation of location-based applications. Ekahau has offices in Saratoga, CA, and in Helsinki, Finland. For more information about Ekahau, please visit www. ekahau. com
About TMC®
Since its inception in 1972, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®) has produced industry-leading trade magazines and events focused on technology and telecommunications. TMC publishes two magazines: Customer Inter@ction Solutions®,and Internet Telephony® and three online publications, Planet PDA® Magazine, BiometriTech, and TMCnet. com. TMC is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labs, and provide factual and unbiased product reviews. TMC also produces BiometriTech and Planet PDA: the Global Summit on Enterprise and Custom Volume Handheld Solutions. TMCnet. com publishes 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www. tmcnet. com.
Public Relations Contacts
North America:
Mr. Petri Virsunen, Strategic Business Development
Ekahau, Inc.
Tel: 1-866-4EKAHAU
E-mail: petri. virsunen@ekahau. com
Europe & Asia:
Ms. Nina Mattsson, Marketing Manager
Ekahau, Inc.
Tel: +358-424-533 304
E-mail: nina. mattsson@ekahau. com
