Motorola backs Vocera, maker of wearable badge for wireless communication
Vocera Communications, a Cupertino, Calif. company that allows mobile workers to communicate through a wireless network by talking to a wearable badge, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Motorola.
See the statement here.
The company says hospitals are using the badge to help workers become more efficient. The badges are small devices that workers wear on their clothing, and push to talk into. Their communications are carried over a local WiFi network.
The company has now… Continue Reading
Vocera raises $7M more for wireless communication badges
Vocera Communications has raised another $7 million for its wearable Wireless communications badges, which let workers talk over distances via WiFi networks, VentureWire reports today (sub required).
The Cupertino company’s technology allows workers to press a button on a small badge, and ask for someone and the system recognizes who or what the worker is asking for, and makes the connection.
The company said it achieved a valuation above $100 million after the investment, and that the… Continue Reading