BOSTON, Mass., April 6, 2009 – Newbury Networks is debuting Newbury Active Asset™ 4.0 at the HIMSS conference, the most important healthcare / information technology conference in North America. Healthcare organizations use Active Asset to ensure patient safety, improve levels of care and realize operating cost efficiencies.
Newbury Networks will demonstrate the new capabilities of Active Asset 4.0 in booth #2476 at this week’s HIMSS’09 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Chicago. The new software arms doctors and other health care professionals with critical, real-time, point-of-need information that improves asset allocation and maximizes employee productivity.
“Healthcare is adopting real time location services at a very rapid pace and for all the right reasons,” said Michael Maggio, General Manager, Newbury Networks. “Business users in clinical departments rely on asset tracking solutions alerting them to critical, life-threatening situations. Active Asset’s breakthrough capabilities in user interface design, location-based alerts and enterprise scalability help these healthcare organizations meet their business and quality care demands head on.”
“Not having to spend hours locating temporarily stored beds, portable drips and other equipment will save our technical services department a great deal of time every day,” said Bob Engels, IT infrastructure and support manager, Onze Lieve Vrouwziekenhuis Hospital, Aalst, Belgium. “Active Asset supports these challenges so we can spend more time providing quality medical care to our patients.”
Active Asset 4.0 delivers these capabilities and benefits:
• Rapid Real-Time Location Services – Active Asset 4.0 instantly locates and tracks people, equipment, vehicles, and Wi-Fi enabled devices such as laptops or smart phones and PDAs.
• Interactive Asset View – Healthcare personnel use Active Asset 4.0’s graphical console showing the activity, location and status of assets, moving or stationary.
• Extensible Asset Life-Cycle Management – Active Asset 4.0 can distinguish between different types of assets – people, equipment, etc. – through a configurable, extensible data model.
• Timely Alerts and Events – Active Asset 4.0 can alert healthcare staff when people and / or equipment enters or exits any designated area, including its immediate location.
• Powerful System Level Integration and APIs – Extensible and programmable APIs mean that Active Asset 4.0 seamlessly integrates with 3Com, Cisco, Enterasys, Meru, Nortel, and Motorola (Symbol) network infrastructures. And, because the APIs are all well-documented, IT staff can write customized scripts and programs connecting to other enterprise applications and databases.
• Unmatched Scalability and Performance - Active Asset 4.0 can handle real-time tracking of thousands of assets and devices across multiple locations in an enterprise setting.
Pricing and Availability
Active Asset 4.0 software license pricing starts at $14,995 for managing up to 50 tracked assets. It will be available to all Newbury channel partners, VARs and customers in 30 days.
About Newbury Networks
Newbury Networks, a division of Trapeze Networks, enables enterprises to locate, manage and secure mobile assets over wireless LANs (WLANs). Newbury's solutions provide accurate and precise real-time location tracking through its best-in-class location-based systems. Newbury's solutions have won numerous awards and accolades including Network World's Best of the New Data Center and Best of Tests™. Newbury Networks was founded in 2001 and is based in Boston. For more information, visit www.newburynetworks.com.
