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SARATOGA, Calif. — February 28, 2006 —AssetPulse,
Inc. a startup focused exclusively on delivering real-time
asset status tracking solutions unveiled its first solution
– AssetGather, and announced strategic relationships
with other RFID market leaders AWID, TAGSYS, RFID4U and
Sun Microsystems, Inc. AssetPulse’s AssetGather
product is a web-based asset status tracking solution
that gives enterprises the ability to view up-to-date
status of all their critical assets and their impact on
associated business processes.
“We are excited about the launch of our new AssetGather
Solution,” said Vijay Sarathy, co-founder and VP
of Marketing at AssetPulse. “AssetGather uniquely
blends technologies such as RFID with our proprietary
software sensor technologies to constantly and automatically
collect and correlate asset data from different sources
to present an aggregated and up-to-date view of the status
of a company’s assets. We are going to break down
those silos of asset data and unleash previously hidden
value to help businesses utilize their assets more effectively
in today’s real-time environment.”
Despite the best intentions, most businesses end up with
silos of asset information in various databases, documents
or applications. Often, the status of assets is tracked
in spreadsheets or information about the assets may be
locked in documents, log files, database or applications
that are not updated regularly. AssetGather remedies exactly
this type of situation by correlating information from
all these disparate sources along with real-time location
and status data from RFID tags and sensors to create an
aggregated and up-to-date view of business assets.
A key component of AssetGather is the use of real-time
data from RFID
tags and sensors. AssetGather was designed from the
ground up with a scalable enterprise-class architecture
including Sun Microsystems’ RFID middleware - the
Sun Java System RFID Software, to be able to collect and
process data in real-time from RFID tags and sensors.
AssetPulse is working with a number of leading RFID infrastructure
providers and system integrators including Applied Wireless
ID (AWID), TAGSYS, and eSmart Source, Inc. (parent company
of RFID4U) to help deliver its asset status tracking solution
to the market.
"As one of the top three global RFID hardware manufacturers,
AWID
clearly sees a growing need for Asset Tracking solutions
across industry verticals," explained Jeff Jacobsen,
President, AWID. "AWID is excited to be working with
AssetPulse to jointly address customer needs through the
fusion of our new WinCE MPR3014 RFID reader family with
AssetPulse's new AssetGather asset tracking solution."
"Sun offers an end-to-end RFID and Sensor infrastructure
for securely deploying applications and integrating the
edge of the business with the rest of the enterprise,"
explains Julie Sarbacker, director, RFID business unit,
Sun
Microsystems. "With partners like AssetPulse,
we're able to deliver complete end-to-end solutions that
address the customer's need for driving new businesses
efficiencies using real-time data from sensors."
“TAGSYS
is singularly focused on becoming the leading high-quality
infrastructure provider for item-level asset tracking
infrastructure,” said Elie Simon, President and
Chief Executive Officer, TAGSYS. “As AssetPulse’s
singular focus is to provide asset tracking software built
from the ground up for real-time data, we see great synergy
between the two companies and believe that this is a partnership
that will serve customers well.”
AssetPulse’s offering - AssetGather, will be on
display at RFID World 2006, being held at the Gaylord
Texan Resort in Dallas, TX between Feb 27 and March 1,
2006 in the AWID and TAGSYS booths on the show floor.
AssetPulse will also demonstrate its solution at the Sun
RFID Test Center Open House on Feb 27 and at the RFID4U
pre-conference training sessions on the same day.
Customer looking for a solution or System Integrators
looking to work with AssetPulse on real-time asset tracking
solutions with RFID should visit AssetPulse at RFID World
or contact us through the website at www.assetpulse.com
About AssetPulse
AssetPulse is a Saratoga, California based startup focused
exclusively on providing automated and real-time asset
status tracking solutions. For more information, visit
the AssetPulse Web site: www.assetpulse.com.
| AssetPulse and AssetGather are trademarks or registered
trademarks of AssetPulse, LLC. All other company
and product names mentioned may be trademarks of
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