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Context-Aware Mobility
Where is an asset located on campus and what is its status?
The Cisco Unified Wireless Network, in conjunction with
Cisco Context-Aware Mobility
solutions,
supports the ability to capture and integrate into business processes, detailed contextual
information about an asset such as its location, movement, status, state, and applications in use.
This solution helps institutions automatically collect information about mobile assets, analyze it,
and use it to reduce errors, prevent delays, improve scalability beyond manual processes, and
enhance business and learning functions.
Any asset that is emitting a Wi-Fi signal can be monitored, tracked, and found with this solution. A
Wi-Fi signal can be generated from a built-in wireless card or an attached Wi-Fi tag from third-
party vendors like AeroScout, WhereNet, and PanGo. Expensive items—such as projectors,
televisions, portable plants, lab equipment, tools, laptops, or any asset that moves—can be easily
tracked. Alerts can be issued about the movement of a device in or out of an area. Costs for
misplaced items, loss, and theft can be reduced.
Faculty and staff can use context-aware mobility in conjunction with third-party applications to
automatically send announcements, assignments, room change notifications, campus event
updates, and emergency alerts to students as they roam on campus. Security personnel can use
this solution to receive silent alerts and notifications about asset movement and rogue devices,
track the areas of the campus they have inspected or secured, and gain access to security video
based on their current location or the location of an emergency-triggered event. Administrators can
use this solution to quickly locate students, faculty, or staff anywhere on campus.
Hospitals associated with higher education institutions can use context-aware mobility for locating,
monitoring, and managing assets, including smartphones, Wi-Fi tagged wheelchairs, infusion
pumps, X-ray machines, electric thermometers, and other mobile medical devices.
Administration and Operations Mobility Solutions
Delivering quick and cost-effective broadband access anywhere on campus extends learning
beyond the classroom and improves campus operations, collaboration, and productivity. Cisco
Unified Wireless Network: Administration and Operations Mobility Solutions are the wireless
foundation that supports secure, easy network access to voice, video, and data applications for
students, administrators, faculty, staff, and visitors as they roam anywhere on campus (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Administration and Operations Mobility Solutions