# AeroScout

> AeroScout built Wi-Fi based real-time location systems for tracking equipment, people and environmental conditions. Founded as Bluetooth-focused BlueSoft, it pivoted to active Wi-Fi RFID tags and MobileView software, found a major market in hospitals, and was acquired by Stanley Healthcare in 2012. The AeroScout RTLS brand is now part of Securitas Healthcare.

- **Founded:** 1999
- **Headquarters:** Redwood City, United States
- **Founders:** Yuval Bar-Gil (Co-founder and CEO), Albert Kahana (Co-founder)
- **Products:** AeroScout RTLS, MobileView, Wi-Fi active RFID tags, AeroScout Links
- **Notable:** Introduced the first Wi-Fi-based active RFID tag, according to acquisition counsel Jones Day., Reached about 800 RTLS customers, including roughly 500 hospitals, by the 2012 acquisition., Sold to Stanley Healthcare for approximately $238.8 million in 2012.

## Products & services

- **AeroScout RTLS** — Wi-Fi based platform for locating and monitoring assets, people and environments.
- **MobileView** — Software interface for location maps, alerts and reporting across AeroScout RTLS applications.
- **Wi-Fi active RFID tags** — Battery-powered tags attached to equipment or carried by people, including T2 and later sensor and staff tags.
- **AeroScout Links** — Cloud based environmental monitoring platform with portal, gateway and mobile app, offered by Securitas Healthcare.

## Achievements

- Introduced the first Wi-Fi-based active RFID tag, according to acquisition counsel Jones Day.
- Reached about 800 RTLS customers, including roughly 500 hospitals, by the 2012 acquisition.
- Sold to Stanley Healthcare for approximately $238.8 million in 2012.
- Peninsula Regional Medical Center reported avoiding $250,000 of infusion pump purchases in its first year using AeroScout solutions.

## Latest updates

- **2022-07** — Securitas completed its acquisition of Stanley Security and Healthcare, bringing AeroScout into the Securitas portfolio.
- **2023-03** — Stanley Healthcare formally became Securitas Healthcare; AeroScout RTLS remains a named product platform.

## Links

- Website: https://www.securitashealthcare.com/aeroscout-rtls
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aeroscout
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/AeroScoutInc
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/pages/AeroScout/150681968329401

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