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AeroScout Wins Red Herring 100 Global Award

Leading Provider of Asset Visibility Solutions Named One of the Top Tech Start-Ups in the World

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - December 10, 2007

AeroScout, the leading provider of Real-Time Visibility and Asset Tracking solutions, announced today that it has been selected as a winner of a Red Herring 100 Global Award.

Red Herring 100 winners and finalists from North America, Europe and Asia of the last three years were eligible for this award. The Red Herring editorial team used a very competitive process to whittle down this pool of 1800 eligible promising companies to the 100 winners of this first-time global award. Evaluations were made on both quantitative and qualitative criteria such as financial performance, innovation, management, global strategy, and ecosystem integration.

Headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices worldwide, AeroScout develops Wi-Fi-based Active RFID solutions that enable companies in the healthcare, manufacturing and logistics industries to improve business processes through accurate, real-time visibility of assets and people. Exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association, AeroScouts customers include many of the Fortune 500 and more than 50 of the world's leading hospitals.

The winning companies were announced and celebrated at the Red Herring Global event in Seattle, WA, on December 3-5.

Executive quote

"We're honored to have won the Red Herring Global 100 Award," said Yuval Bar-Gil, CEO and Co-founder of AeroScout. "AeroScouts real-time visibility solutions meet the very real need within many industries for total awareness and management of the location and status of critical assets. This award recognizes our leadership in delivering value to customers in this rapidly-growing market.

About the company

About AeroScout

AeroScout is the market leader in Active RFID asset tracking and location solutions over standard Wi-Fi networks. The companys enterprise visibility solutions accurately locate and monitor assets and people in both indoor and outdoor environments to improve business processes. AeroScout has provided visibility solutions to hundreds of customers worldwide, including many of the Fortune 500 and dozens of the worlds leading hospitals. Founded in 2000, AeroScout pioneered the Wi-Fi visibility market by introducing the industry's first Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tag, and is widely recognized as leading the market in number of tags shipped. AeroScout is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif., with offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit www.aeroscout.com.

AeroScout is a registered trademark of AeroScout, Inc. Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Information is subject to change without notice.

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company uniting the worlds best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology research, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insiders access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit www.redherring.com.

Contact details

LEWIS PR for AeroScout
Bryan Pope, 415-992-4400
aeroscout@lewispr.com
or
Red Herring
Jordy Brazier, 650-585-3524
jbrazier@redherring.com


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