Sponsors and Exhibitors

Merlin 360 brings together a wealth of expertise and experience in the development and delivery of systems integration and advanced real-time location technologies. Our excellent track record includes successful projects with the NHS and the University of Hull Logistics Institute

 

We use state-of-the-art ultrasound tracking as well as highly efficient radio frequency identification (RFID) and other positioning technologies to monitor and protect people, products and property in:

 

* hospitals and healthcare settings

* schools and colleges

* warehouses

* public and corporate buildings

* correctional facilities

Awarepoint's Active RFID technologies and real time location systems (RTLSs) include its real time awareness platform, firmware, RFID tags, sensors, and bridges. Awarepoint's technologies collect raw sensor data and transform that data into high-value positioning information that can be used to add location awareness to a variety of healthcare, manufacturing, security and other applications. Requiring no hard wiring, Awarepoint's "plug and track" network is a fully managed service, including hardware, software, remote monitoring and maintenance, offering the only truly practical, enterprise-wide RTLS technology solution on the market today. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California and serves clients across the United States through a national sales and operations workforce.

Axcess International Inc., headquartered in greater Dallas, TX, provides Enterprise Dot™, Dual-Active™ RFID (radio frequency identification) and Real Time Location Systems (RTLS) for asset management, physical security, sensing and supply chain efficiencies. The solution is based on battery-powered, or active, RFID technology, where wireless tags use on-board battery power to transmit signals from a few feet to hundreds of feet in order to automatically locate, identify, track, monitor, count, and protect people, assets, inventory, and vehicles.

 

Axcess' unique patented dual-active RFID technology enables tags to wake-up on-demand as needed to provide precise location determination plus the ability to have tags always "on" in a beaconing signal mode. Axcess' dual-active RFID is the most economical and flexible solution on the market today.

Axcess is a portfolio company of Amphion Innovations plc (AIM: AMP) and publicly traded under OTCBB:AXSI

DecaWave is a fabless semiconductor company. It was founded in January 2004 by the CTO, Michael Mc Laughlin. It now boasts a team of engineers with many decades of experience in communications algorithms, wireless communication, marketing, digital and analog semiconductor design and standards processes. The initial goal of the company is to produce a complete, single chip CMOS ultra wideband IC. This will implement the IEEE 802.15.4a spec and work at rates 110kbps, 850kbps, 6.8Mbps and 27Mbps.

 

 

The decaWave engineering team have been producing communications IC's for many years and have been working on ultra wideband since early 2002. One of the founders, Michael Mc Laughlin was the driving force behind the ParthusCeva ( now Ceva Inc.) contributions to the IEEE Ultra Wideband PHY proposal. The ParthusCeva role in the standardisation has since been taken over by decaWave.

Intelligent InSites is a leading provider of enterprise visibility solutions for the healthcare market. The InSites Enterprise Visibility Platform™ improves operational performance by providing healthcare organizations with a single system capable of locating patients, staff, equipment, and inventory via information derived through a variety of wireless locating technologies. The information is then leveraged to streamline and automate patient flow, asset management, and inventory management activities, resulting in increased productivity and efficient deployment of resources.

 

The platform serves as the core of the enterprise visibility strategy for Intelligent InSites' healthcare clients by seamlessly integrating real-time location data with their existing IT systems, communication systems, building systems, and mobile devices. The platform also allows customers and integrators to customize and enhance the system to suit their unique requirements and environment.

 

Sonitor Technologies, recently named North American RTLS Emerging Company of the Year by Frost and Sullivan, offers a unique ultrasound IPS (Indoor Positioning System) that automatically tracks the real-time location of moveable equipment and/or people in complex environments with 100% room-level, or sub room-level (such as bed-level) accuracy.

Due to the unique attributes of ultrasound there is no risk of electromagnetic interference with other equipment. The low quantity of data transmitted from the Tags requires minimal LAN bandwidth so existing wired or wireless LAN can easily be leveraged. The Sonitor IPS, now chosen by more than 30 hospitals, is fully, easily and quickly scalable.

Q-Track develops and sells active RTLS based on the company's Near-Field Electromagnetic Ranging (NFER®) technology. NFER® technology is a radically new form of wireless tracking that brings real-time locating systems (RTLS) to the most difficult indoor environments. NFER® systems operate under Part 15 power levels in the AM broadcast band (530-1710kHz). By exploiting the properties of long wavelength, low frequency signals, NFER® systems deliver better propagation and near immunity from the multipath that plagues high frequency "solutions." Still in the prototype stage, Q-Track offers QT^(TM)-400 Starter Kits for sale to early adopters and strategic partners interested in evaluating the technology.