CenTrak Recognized by Gartner for Critical Capabilities in Indoor Location Services
CenTrak was recognized by Gartner in its January 2020 Critical Capabilities for Indoor Location Services report as one of the top two vendors across all five use cases analyzed—earning the highest product scores for zonal asset tracking, people tracking, and high-value or flight risk asset tracking—and was also named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services for the second consecutive time, highlighting its innovative, scalable real-time location technology solutions widely used in healthcare for applications including contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CenTrak announced that Gartner has recognized its indoor location services among the two highest scores in all use cases analyzed by the research firm. Among 14 vendors, CenTrak received the highest product score for zonal asset tracking, people tracking, and high-value or flight risk asset tracking, and the second highest score in static asset location and real-time location services asset tracking. CenTrak was also recently recognized as a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services, Global for the second time in a row.
Published on January 30, 2020, Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Indoor Location Services, Global report analyzes five common use cases to help infrastructure and operations leaders assess the ability of vendors to meet the needs of their organizations. CenTrak is listed in the highest third for all use cases.
CenTrak's CEO, Ari Naim, stated that the company is proud to have been positioned with the highest and second highest scores in all indoor location services use cases analyzed by Gartner. He emphasized CenTrak's mission to provide solutions that enable healthcare leaders to benefit from real-time location technology, especially as this technology is being used for critical contact tracing services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
CenTrak offers a suite of scalable and innovative location technology solutions for the healthcare industry. More than twenty-five types of locating tags, beacons, and sensors support a variety of applications, including environmental monitoring, clinical workflow automation, wayfinding, hand hygiene compliance, and safety and security for patients and staff. CenTrak uses patented Second-Generation Infrared (Gen2IR), LF Exciters, active and passive UHF RFID, BLE, and Wi-Fi to collect and transmit real-time location data over enterprise-grade networks.
Sources: Gartner, Critical Capabilities for Indoor Location Services, Global, Tim Zimmerman, Annette Zimmermann, 30 January 2020. Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Indoor Location Services, Global, Tim Zimmerman, Annette Zimmermann, 13 January 2020.
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