Denver Becomes One of the Nation’s Safest Cities with WirelessWERX Precise Indoor Location System that Pinpoints Mobile E911 Callers

WirelessWERX Demonstrates SiteWERX Indoor Location System at APCO Western Regional Conference 2010

DENVER, Jan. 20, 2010 – As more Americans cut the cord to their landlines and rely solely on their mobile phones, they unknowingly put themselves at risk in an emergency situation. Mobile 911 callers take longer to locate because the current 911 system was built to use addresses associated with landlines. Denver 911 is taking the lead in ensuring the safety of mobile callers by becoming the nation’s first Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) to implement SiteWERX–the industry’s most precise indoor location system that accurately pinpoints a mobile 911 caller’s location by including building, floor and room number.

WirelessWERX, the creator of SiteWERX and the leader in wireless indoor location services (ILS), will be demonstrating SiteWERX at the APCO Western Regional Conference 2010, which is taking place in Denver this week, Jan. 20-21, booth #208.

Today’s 911 systems provide a location within an area of confidence between 50-150 meters, or the equivalent of a football field. However, location results still vary and also do not supply indoor location information. This makes it difficult and inefficient for first responders to locate mobile 911 callers in multistory buildings or densely populated environments.

SiteWERX provides emergency responders with the indoor location information, down to the exact floor and room number, that is critical in a life or death situation. This type of indoor location information is more important today as more people use only their mobile phones. More than one out of every five American homes had only wireless telephones during the first half of 2009—an increase of 2.5 percent since the second half of 2008—and this trend is only expected to continue. According to CTIA, 296,000 E911 calls are made per day on wireless phones.

“Today’s 911 system is more than 40 years old and was built for landlines,” said Steve Artim, CEO of WirelessWERX. “More than 50 percent of 911 calls are made on wireless devices with half of those made indoors, leaving a large margin of chance for first responders to immediately get to 911 callers. Denver is a model city ensuring the safety of its residents by implementing SiteWERX to help public safety officials save time and save lives.”

About WirelessWERX, Inc.
Established in 1998, WirelessWERX is headquartered in Anaheim, Calif. WirelessWERX is a leader in delivering indoor location services (ILS) via Bluetooth-enabled mobile devices. The company has a long history of developing and deploying end-to-end solutions for the deployment of mobile resource management and tracking solutions as well as location-based services systems. WirelessWERX is a privately held venture funded company. For more information, visit www.wirelesswerx.com.