Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) has selected Awarepoint's Real-time Awareness Solution to provide a hospital-wide RFID asset management system. With Awarepoint, hospital staff will have the tools needed to efficiently track the location, status and movement of the hospital's mobile medical equipment.

With the hospital's expansive layout of 1.1 million square feet and unique building topography (including thick, cement fortification), finding a workable RFID asset management solution involved a vast effort. The competitive government procurement included detailed review of six other companies, all employing various WiFi and RFID technologies. Awarepoint's Zigbee wireless sensor network was selected.

Awarepoint's system consists of Zigbee-based sensors that plug into electrical outlets to form a self-healing mesh network. Battery-powered tags attached to equipment are tracked using the Web-based Searchpoint search engine. WRAMC is in the process of tagging 4,000 assets.