AXCESS System Installed in Local Data Center.Business & High Tech Editors DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 Partner, Entech, moves to second installation of AXCESS products AXCESS Inc. (Nasdaq: AXSI), a leading provider of asset management products and solutions, announced today that it has partnered with Entech of Dallas, a leading integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. of network-based systems and solutions. The two have just completed their first installation of the ActiveTag(TM) Asset Management System at a local data center. Entech is now working on its second installation of the AXCESS product at another data center on the West Coast. Faced with securing thousands of client's servers within one facility, Entech chose to implement the AXCESS ActiveTag line of network-based automatic identification and monitoring products at a local Fortune 50 telecom data center. By affixing wireless sensors see mote. , or "tags", to servers and other critical equipment, the data center personnel are able to track the physical location of the equipment as well as monitor ambient temperature Outside temperature at any given altitude, preferably expressed in degrees centigrade. levels around these assets, anywhere within the facility. "AXCESS' products are ideally suited for data and colocation centers See co-location center. where large numbers of mission critical assets must be protected and monitored," stated AXCESS Vice President of Sales, Mike Uremovich. He continued, "The AXCESS system provides the most advanced, cost effective means of securing their clients' equipment, and at the same time monitoring environmental conditions. By selecting the ActiveTag system, users can implement a variety of applications using a single, compatible networked infrastructure." Particularly useful in the application are AXCESS' new Beacon Beacon, city (1990 pop. 13,243), Dutchess co., SE N.Y., on the E bank of the Hudson River; settled 1663, inc. in 1913 when Fishkill Landing and Matteawan villages were united. Tags. By transmitting a location signal periodically, the Beacon Tags provide real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. inventory location of both static and moving assets. Additionally, the tags deliver temperature monitoring with immediate notification should temperature levels exceed a specified range. "The client desired immediate notification of asset movement and temperature status. AXCESS' ActiveTag line was able to address all these concerns with a single product solution. We look forward to using the AXCESS products going forward," stated Dan Rice of Entech Sales and Service, the integrator working with the local telecom to secure their data centers. For more information on the AXCESS product lines, visit the company's website at www.axcessinc.com About Entech Sales and Service Texas-based Entech Sales and Service provides building security, automation and complete system integration to commercial and industrial facilities. With six offices throughout the state, Entech is poised to take advantage of advanced system technologies to provide their customers with state-of-the-art solutions. For more information, see Entech's website at www.entechsales.com About AXCESS AXCESS Inc., headquartered in Dallas, TX, provides network-based system solutions to the enterprise using patented technologies in wireless, automatic identification and multi-media for improving operations productivity, physical security, asset and inventory management, and ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. . Products include hands-free, long range RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. (radio frequency identification See RFID. ) technology used to track and monitor people, assets, inventory and vehicles as well as patented digital video compression Encoding digital video to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. See video codec and data compression. video compression - Compression of sequences of images. technology for enterprise multi-media transmission and digital recording. AXCESS Inc. is an incuVest partner company. |
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