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What is Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server?

Location Awareness Services for WebSphere® Premises Server allows companies to continuously track active tags in real time in predefined areas of refineries, plants, and office buildings. Third-party asset location systems provide the tags, which may be carried by employees or visitors, or fixed to assets. Third-party systems also include reader infrastructure and a location engine, which is software that calculates tag positions based on the tag signals received by different readers. The Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server solution works with these systems to visualize locations that are being monitored and to display the current position of personnel or assets carrying the tags.

Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server provides a visual console that automatically locates the tags that are monitored in real time, allowing for real time response to emergency situations or security breaches. Personnel or assets can be monitored in virtual danger zones and Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server will send safety and security breach alerts if assets or personnel are not qualified for entry or exit. Zones are virtual areas that can have rules or permissions assigned to them, and may vary over time. For example, temporary dangerous construction zones may be created.

The solution does the following:

An adapter (not shown in Figure 1) gathers data from real time location systems (RTLS) monitoring the area and sends the data to Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server, which stores information in the resources database and performs runtime processing, such as determining when zones are entered or exited, checking business rules, and calling registered programs in case of business rule violations. Information in the resources database, such as position coordinates and zones, is displayed on the Spatial Management Client. The configuration table in this same database is used to define, update, and display administration and operation information through portlets in the WebSphere Application Server administrative console. You can also use the WebSphere Application Server administrative console to define business rules, notification programs, and various system properties.

Figure 1. Overview of Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server
This image is a network diagram showing the topology of Location Awareness Services for WebSphere Premises Server.

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