Time Domain Adds Three New Ultra Wideband (UWB) Products to its PLUS Line to Meet RTLS Demand in Healthcare, Manufacturing, Logistics and Safety/Security Markets

Huntsville, Alabama – September 8, 2008 – Making the case that size does matter when it comes to real-time location system (RTLS) tags and reader/antennas, Time Domain Corporation, www.timedomain.com, a leader in precision ultra wideband (UWB) (RTLS), today introduced the thinnest active wearable UWB badge tag for RTLS applications, an externally-powered original equipment manufacturer (OEM) tag, and a small reader/antenna as part of its PLUS 2.0 product line. These new UWB products bring additional flexibility to interaction-level asset visibility by broadening the types of enterprise assets that can be precisely located and the variety of work environments where PLUS sub-room level real-time location can be readily applied.

With a thickness of 6.8 mm, height of 75 mm, and width of 37 mm, a worker or visitor can easily attach the vertically-oriented, LED-enabled PLUS 2.0 Badge Tag to a collar, shirt pocket, lanyard or belt. Users can verify their arrival and status at a location or interaction with another person or piece of equipment with the touch of a button on the PLUS 2.0 Badge Tag, which features a four-year battery life.

The PLUS 2.0 Small Form Reader/Antenna, which measures 12 inches by 12 inches, is easily mountable on multiple surfaces in an indoor facility, such as on I-beams, poles and flat ceilings. It is available in omni-directional (circular) and 180-degree (semi-circle) coverage patterns and can read thousands of PLUS tags per second through multiple walls.

The externally-powered PLUS 2.0 OEM Tag can be easily integrated into a variety of products to incorporate the power of precise, interactive location. From multi-mode tags, and custom enclosures to assets with built-in tracking, the OEM Tag has multiple update rates from a few times per minute to a 100 times per second, and can use any available battery or power source for continuous long life tracking. It is available as a printed circuit board (28mm x 31mm) and with housing (33mm x 35mm).

“UWB excels at precision asset location and we’re seeing strong demand for this level of accuracy in number of environments including office buildings, retail stores and logistics facilities. With the addition of these products, our partners can now implement PLUS and precisely tag assets in virtually any application,” said Greg Clawson, vice president of sales and marketing at Time Domain.

Unlike other RFID RTLS technologies, such as UHF, Zigbee and Wi-Fi, Time Domain’s PLUS UWB active tags emit short pulses once a second which, when read and processed, provide inches of accuracy in zone-based, 1D, 2D and 2.5D multi-floor environments. The short pulses deliver precise location accuracy to the sub-room level, through walls and in environments where wiring and metal fixtures can be problematic for other RTLS systems. With high update rates, very long battery life and high simultaneous tag capacity, PLUS is ideally designed for enterprise location solutions. For more information on the PLUS 2.0 Badge Tag, PLUS 2.0 OEM Tag and PLUS 2.0 Small Form Reader/Antenna, visit http://www.timedomain.com/plus.php.

About Time Domain

Time Domain is the world leader in ultra wideband (UWB) product development and provides solutions that enable enterprises to maximize productivity of their people and assets using a real-time location system (RTLS).  Our products and professional services deliver "Precise Location for a World in Motion" to the healthcare, retail, and other vertical markets and are sold and supported through a network of certified channel partners.  Time Domain's new Precision Location UWB System (PLUS) products are powered by the innovative PulsON suite of UWB technologies, which are also available for strategic UWB OEM integration.

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