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Wi-Fi Location-Based Services—Design and Deployment Considerations
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The SOAP/XML Application Programming Interface
• PanGo Locator Configuration—Define, configure, and manage assets, tags and spaces.
• PanGo Locator Monitor—Visualize, search, and filter assets in maps/floorplans or tabular views.
• PanGo Locator Notifier—Automatically send notifications and alerts based on user-defined,
event-driven business rules, including asset location, presence/absence duration, and status.
• PanGo Locator Reporting—Current or historical asset intelligence reports, including location,
duration, alerts, and movement.
• PanOS Platform—PanOS Platform is a open, web-based development framework that accepts
location data into the PanGo system from the Cisco Location Appliance.
One or more of these modules may be co-resident on a single system or can reside on separate systems.
Cisco and PanGo Networks have worked very closely on the integration of PanGo Locator with the Cisco
LBS Solution using the SOAP/XML API facility described previously. These efforts have produced a
rich extended-value asset tracking solution for Cisco WLAN environments combining the advantages of
a robust and cost-effective location tracking system with a powerful location-tracking software
application designed to appeal to the business user.
The solution consists of four key component groups, as shown in Figure 78:
• The Cisco Location Appliance (location server)
• The Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) licensed for location usage (control client)
• PanGo Locator/PanOS (location client)
• Cisco WLAN controllers and access points, PanGo Locator LAN asset tags, and industry standard
802.11 Wi-Fi WLAN clients