Airista Acquires Ekahau's RTLS Division

Wi-Fi location services company Airista Flow, a real-time location system (RTLS) technology division of Airista, has purchased Ekahau's RTLS U.S. and International divisions, based in Reston, Va., and Helsinki, Finland. The acquisition closed on March 2.

Ekahau's other division, Ekahau Site Survey (ESS)—which sells Wi-Fi design tools for site surveys, including spectrum analyzers and Wi-Fi signal-mappers—will continue to operate independently, and will keep selling its line of non-RTLS Wi-Fi-based products, says Emily Nardone, Ekahau ESS' product marketing director.

Emily Nardone, Ekahau ESS' product marketing director

Michel Wendell, Ekahau ESS' chairman and CEO

Airista makes asset- and personnel-tracking solutions employing passive, active and semi-active RFID technology, as well as RTLS solutions and GPS, for the health-care, oil and gas, logistics, assisted-living and other sectors.