Motorola RFID RTLS Solution

Motorola launches its real-time location solution enabling the Wireless Next Generation (Wi-NG) architecture. The RFID-enabled solution creates a Real-time Location System (RTLS) that supports location awareness. Moto is promoting standards-based application programming interfaces for this solution to enable third party business capabilities. ...

... "Powered by the embedded RTLS engine, the Motorola Wi-NG architecture enables accurate location determination and presence detection capabilities for Wi-Fi-based devices, Wi-Fi-based active RFID tags and passive RFID tags. The solution can be deployed by small, medium and large organizations using Motorola’s full RF Switch portfolio in both indoor and outdoor environments. Motorola’s location solution is both RF- and tag-agnostic, and includes built-in location determination algorithms that can integrate data from third-party location engines. An industry-standard application level events (ALE) interface allows developers to create location-based business applications using location data. Capable of processing many location technologies simultaneously and delivering the data with a single XML-based interface, Motorola’s RTLS offers customers the most comprehensive and flexible location solution on the market. " ...

Via Motorola: Comprehensive Location Solution

Handheld RFID Reader Europe

Motorola introduces new RFID product enhancements expands geographic availability to meet the business needs of customers globally. ...

... "Rugged, lightweight and ergonomically well-balanced, the new European R1 version of Motorola's high-performance RFID handheld reader is compliant with current ETSI 302 208 standards required for operation in countries in the European Union. The new R1 version offers integrated RFID reading/writing and barcode scanning and is able to seamlessly switch to multiple channels and transmit 100 percent of the time. The long read ranges produced by the linear antennae make the reader ideal for a variety of retail, manufacturing, transportation and logistics applications including shipping and receiving, work-in-process, item-level in-store inventory management and asset, baggage and cargo tracking. " ...

Via Motorola: RFID reader performance enhancements

NineWest RFID Pilot

Jones Apparel Group launches program to pilot Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in specific Nine West retail locations to determine its impact on item tracking and service, operational efficiency, and inventory. ...

... "The goal of this pilot program will be to study the benefits that item-level RFID provides in the areas of enhanced productivity, customer service and inventory accuracy. The team of companies with whom Jones is partnering on this initiative consists of: Vue Technology, which will provide the RFID software and system management solutions; Motorola's Enterprise Mobility Business, which will provide fixed and handheld RFID readers and antennas; Avery Dennison, which will provide RFID tags and printers; inCode Wireless, which will provide installation and integration services and, along with RFID Sherpas LLC, will perform operational and business case analysis. " ...

Via Jones Apparel Group: Item-Level RFID Pilot in Select Nine West Retail Locations

Motorola RFID Reader Bi-Static Ports

Motorola introduces the XR450, a fixed radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader, that features bi- and mono-static antenna ports on a single platform to protect RFID investments and decrease the complexity of deployment. ...

... "The uniquely designed XR450 RFID reader offers customers the ability to select between using four bi-static ports that require dual antennas or four mono-static ports that require only one antenna for transmitting or receiving tag data. Mono-static ports are ideal for real-time item-level tracking, application processing and management, such as in postal tracking or reading pallets of goods at retail stores. Businesses can use the bi-static ports for the highest possible performance in the most challenging RF environments. The inclusion of both mono- and bi-static ports in a single platform allows customers to purchase one reader with the opportunity to utilize either port option - providing greater flexibility to adapt the reader to the intended application and environmental needs. " ...

Via Motorola: XR450 RFID Reader Offers Greater Flexibility with Increased Functionality and Security

RFID Cold Chain Presentations Planned RFID World

Sensitech and Motorola will explore accomplishments of RFID-enabled cold supply chains. ...

... "Sensitech's first session, scheduled for March 26, will focus on Driving Measurable Process Improvements with RFID Cold Chain Visibility. Sensitech's vice president of Business Development and New Technologies, Peter J. Maysek, and Motorola's director of RFID Business Development, Tom Racette, will delve into protecting the integrity of perishables and the complexity of supply chain management. They will examine some cold chain management practices, including a Class 4 active RFID monitoring system. They also provide some insight into what is possible with the evolution of Class 3 tags. Areas to be reviewed will include technology, applications, architecture and the business value of data analysis. The second session, scheduled for March 28, will highlight RFID in the Cold Chain - Leveraging Cold Chain Visibility. " ...

Sensitech Presents with Motorola at Fifth Annual RFID World Conference