Aeroscout 2008 Architecture

www.aeroscout.com AEROSCOUT CONFIDENTIAL

Active RFID Overview including

• RTLS Learnings & Requirements• DMLSS Integration

RFID Working Group, Falls Church, VA

Scott PhillipsDirector, Product Architecture

[email protected] 21, 2008

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AeroScout Market Leadership

Market ShareMarket Share

Product LeadershipProduct Leadership

Broadest Broadest

EcosystemEcosystem

High Profile High Profile

CustomersCustomers

“AeroScout shipments accounted for the majority of all Wi-Fi RFID tags”

InStat, May 2007

Only company with full range of visibility solutions fit for all environments and use cases.

“…an impressively complete, scalable system” Information Week, 2007


Boeing – RFID Visionary

� Scalability

� Security – DoD, behind firewall

� Standards – 802.11, AeroScout, Cisco

� Single infrastructure

� Outdoor

� Chokepoint/Room level/Bay level

� Passive integration

� Ruggedness

� Extensibility – reports, complex events

� Integration via SOA, XML publish/subscribe

� Packaged deployments

� Global visibility


Example VA Hospital

� Multiple Applications

� Asset Management (started here)

� Equipment Maintenance

� Staff Duress

� Outdoor tracking (duress, assets)

� Looking forward

� Tracking of residence by cell phone

� OR/ER workflow

� Temperature

� PDA

� More!

� Scalability

� Security

� Single Infrastructure

� Outdoor

� Chokepoint *

� Ruggedness

� Integration


RTLS Requirements for Healthcare

� Look at all the big picture and all long term requirements

� Multiple applications

� Multiple use cases

� Scalability

� Configurability

� Integrations

� Extensibility

� Ruggedness/Enterprise class

� Security

� Sensors – temperature, call button, humidity, tamper, etc.

� Chokepoint/Room Level

� Indoor/outdoor/field

� Utilize standards

� Minimize IT total cost of ownership

� Asset Management

� Equipment Maintenance

� Temperature Monitoring

� Patient and Staff Safety

� Workflow & Resource Management

� More …


Unified Asset Visibility in Healthcare

Wi-Fi-Based RFID – Pervasive hospital wide visibility

Chokepoints – OR/ED workflow automation (Bay level separation), immediate safety and theft alerts

Passive RFID – specimen tracking, OR small equipment and trays

Sensors – Temperature and humidity monitoring (Drugs, vaccines, tissues, blood, food, etc.)


Unified Asset Visibility in Healthcare

Wi-Fi-Based RFID – Indoors and outdoors pervasive hospital wide visibility

Chokepoints – Gate and dock arrivals/departures for supply chain

Sensors – Cold chain temperature and humidity monitoring of pharmaceutical products

Outdoor Location & StatusOutdoor Location & Status

Indoor Indoor

Location & StatusLocation & Status

GPS – Disaster emergency


DoD Army & Navy Hospital Trend

SelectingAsset Management

DMLSS integration

US Naval5

AS SelectedEquipment ManagementUS Naval4

AS SelectedAsset Management

Staff Duress

IP Phone Integration

US Army3

AS SelectedAsset ManagementUS Army2

AS Deployed

“Landstuhl”

Asset Management

Equipment Maintenance

Keep equipment in assigned areas

US Army1

StatusStarting ApplicationsType#


Example WiFi Test Results

Cisco with AeroScout Tags at a US Army Hospital

� 3 meter resolution 100% of the time




DMLSS and AeroScout Integration


Integration Capabilities

� Push

� Event based via Web Services (SOA), HTTP Post or JMS

� .XML or flat message

� Payload: Asset ID, Location, Timestamp, etc.

� Pull

� SOAP Integration with Rich API set

� Association/De-association

� Location

� Synchronizing fields (e.g. serial #, model, category, maintenance date,

etc.)


Asset Management Integration

Cisco Location Appliance

DMLSS

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� Asset

Management

� Equipment

Maintenance

� Work Orders

� Ownership

� Current

Location

Aeroscout MobileView

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Services Oriented ArchitectureServices Oriented Architecture

� Visual Real

Time Location

� Searchable

fields

� Ownership

� Usage Status

� Reports

� Events

� PDA

URL


MobileView Solution Capabilities

� Visual Search

� Asset ID, Serial #, Model, Category, Maintenance Date, Owner, etc.

� Reports

� Current Quantity vs Par Levels by Asset Category and Area

� Historical Quantity vs Par Levels by Asset Category and Area

� Sweep Report – collection of assets and current location by Maintenance date

� Equipment not in hospital; Last exit from building logged

� Usage history (breakage or root cause analysis)

� Chart

� Historical Quantity vs Par Levels by Asset Category and Area

� Alerts

� Equipment Par Level too low/too high for area

� Equipment left area/building unauthorized – alert security

� PDA

� Mobile Find

� Associate/Deassociate

� And More!


AeroScout Summary

� Wi-Fi standards-based� Keeps costs low and management simple

� Over 4 years of success selling/deploying Wi-Fi-based Active RFID solutions

� Availability of solutions to cover all environments� Only Wi-Fi system with multiple visibility types (Real-time location, presence, choke-point)

� Indoor and outdoor (RSSI and TDOA) with the same tag

� Sensor/telemetry capability

� Room and bay level separation

� Scalable to tens of thousands of assets

� Market-leading Wi-Fi tags� Up to 4+ years of battery life

� Shipping tens of thousands/month

� Negligible effect on Wi-Fi network

� MobileView: Enterprise-class visibility application suite� Track, Alert, Manage and Integrate from a Web interface

� Customizable logic and business event engine

� Easily deliver location information to existing hospital applications

Business

Aeroscout 2008 Architecture