RFID Company: Customer Satisfaction Is Differentiator

SkyeTek and Impinj differentiate themselves in the RFID marketplace by ranking as the highest rated RFID reader vendors in terms of customer satisfaction. ...

... "SkyeTek and Impinj offer products in different market segments with the former offering reader modules for embedded applications, such as product authentication, smart displays, and patron management, and the latter offering finished readers for applications such as portals, forklifts, and shelves. In comparing SkyeTek to vendors also offering modules, the study shows that SkyeTek's customer satisfaction rating exceeds that of the competition by two to four times. SkyeTek commissioned Amplify Communications to conduct the blind, independent survey by acquiring contact lists from industry standard sources. Over 10,000 professionals were contacted resulting in approximately 400 respondents, each of whom is involved in one or more projects using RFID reader technology.
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Via SkyeTech: Lead RFID Reader Providers in Customer Satisfaction ...

Embedded RFID Satellite Tracking

Embedded RFID Satellite Tracking: Via Comtech Telecommunications Corp.: Comtech Telecommunications Corp. Receives $4.7 Million Movement Tracking System Order for Its Next Generation Transceiver ...

Comtech Telcom receives order for embedded-RFID satellite tracking system ...

... "Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL) announced today that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., has received an order totaling $4.7 million on its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the U. S. Army. This order is for the purchase of Comtech's next generation mobile satellite transceiver, which features embedded RFID and secure GPS capabilities, along with ruggedized computers and control stations. " ...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. designs, develops, produces and markets innovative products, systems and services for advanced communications solutions. The Company conducts its business through three complementary segments: telecommunications transmission, mobile data communications, and RF microwave amplifiers. The Company offers niche products, systems and services where it believes it has technological, engineering, systems design or other expertise that differentiate its product offerings.

Radio Frequency Electronic Tags ...

NOAA Tech Memo NWFSC-7: Technological Contributions

... "Miniature radio-frequency electronic tags, which are placed in fish, provide a means for researchers to track fish movements and study their behavior. A limiting factor in the number of radio tags that can be used in a study is the number of frequencies that tag-monitoring receivers can differentiate. Attempts to increase the number of fish that could be tracked in a study by producing several pulse rates on each frequency have not succeeded in the past. Pulse rate separation problems occurred when several tags of the same frequency were in the same area. When frequencies are separate, tags with faster pulse-rate frequencies cause higher battery drain, producing differences in tag life." ...

RFID Dock Door Portal ...

VerdaSee Solutions, Inc. provides a Dock Door Portal Identification solution that provides high performance tracking of assets that enter or leave facilities through dock doors. The dock doors are equipped with RFID readers and antennas by VerdaSee's Field Engineering experts. RFID tags or labels are affixed to personnel, target assets, or skids of assets. These assets are tracked automatically as they pass through the dock door. Solutions can be designed that differentiate between assets that are entering, or leaving, the target area. Integration to business systems allows the RFID readers to assist in inventory reconciliation or vendor managed inventory processes. ...

Item Level RFID Tagging in Pharma Industry Drives Patient Safety ...

Item Level RFID Tagging in Pharma Industry Drives Patient Safety: The Pharmaceutical Industry Turns To RFID As One Cure for Many ...

Item-Level RFID tags on pharmaceutical products can provide benefits, in addition to RFID's role in eliminating counterfeit drugs and in increasing patient safety ...

From Business Wire (press release), CA ... Radio frequency identification - RFID - seen as one way to lower that cost, has its own defining characteristics. Issues of drug ...

... Drug counterfeiting may cost the worldwide pharmaceutical industry more than US$30 billion annually. Radio frequency identification - RFID - seen as one way to lower that cost, has its own defining characteristics. Issues of drug counterfeiting and patient safety differentiate it from RFID in retail markets. To minimize this wastage, and to raise the level of safety for patients, some companies are embracing RFID tagging of drug shipments at the item level. ...

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Walmart RFID Label Compliance: Worldlabel.com patents process for accurate embedding of RFID tags...

Worldlabel.com patents process for accurate embedding of RFID tags (Chips) into self-adhesive paper labels both reducing costs effectively and with increased reliability and consistency.

Worldlabel.com, New York, USA - a manufacturer of laser and inkjet labels and barcode labels with presence in the USA and in Asia through Innotech Resources PTE LTD in Singapore has received worldwide PCT patent pending rights for a system and method for batch conversion for embedding RFID tags (Radio Frequency Identification) to RFID Labels. This method to convert RFID tags to RFID labels allows the tag to be embedded into a paper label with varying sizes on rolls according to customer requirements.

This system provides a low cost method of converting RFID tags to be embedded accurately into a paper label even though each batch might uses varying size labels and require the RFID tag to be embedded in different areas of the label. The methods allows for mass conversion efficiently. In this manner there is a big reduction in material waste and a reduction in labor costs is achieved as well when compared to the current manual procedure of “Meet, Match and Stick”. Our invention is also user friendly and offers a much faster turn around for converting RFID labels especially when converting separate batches. As a result, the costs of RFID labels are significantly reduced thus making RFID labels a more favored option in manufacturing, logistics and other harsh environments where bar code labels might not perform.

”We are at the forefront of converting RFID labels. We have done several evaluations and tests and the results have been 100% positive” says Alex Choong, managing director and co-inventor. We are converting the RFID labels with the intention of meeting Wal-mart (NYSE:WMT) RFID labeling requirements which uses a UHF frequency. Wal-mart has requested that all their suppliers start using RFID labels by beginning of 2005. The request by the world's biggest retailer set off a scramble among companies including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. to develop workable RFID systems. The conditions Wal-mart requires have been achieved by our new method of manufacturing RFID labels.

Typically, about 20% of the RFID labels in a rolls have defective chips, but there's often no way to differentiate the functioning and nonfunctioning tags until after they've been placed on products. Our system and methods of manufacturing increases the reliability and consistency of RFID labels to 100% accuracy. This is important to the end users and manufacturers because it increases their throughput, it decreases the operational time that they need to print those labels, and the reliability of the label helps them integrate other high-speed applications. You can print bar codes on our labels embedded with UHF Class 1 and Class 0 RFID tags with most popular thermal label printers.

“We are producing a high quality RFID label with excellent accuracy and at lower cost levels. We are excited, having increased the functionality of labels and started a revolution. We have production capacity and are ready to take on the onslaught.” Mr. Choong said.

For more information, please visit http://www.worldlabel.com/rfid.htm or contact: Russell Ossendryver, 336 Convent Ave, NY, NY, 10031, USA. TEL: 212-234 5775

About Worldlabel.com - Worldlabel.com is a leading manufacturer of laser and inkjet labels in over 40 sizes including CD, DVD, mailing, shipping labels and more in 18 different materials, Specialty pressure sensitive labels and thermal barcode labels. Its offices in Singapore, Innotech Resources PTE LTD handle all aspect of barcode and RFID system and integration and manufacturing for the Asian markets.

RFID Concept: Anticollision enables multiple card reads at the ...

From Contactless News (press release), VA ... Another one of the basic technical concepts of RFID is anticollision. ... How might he do this? Likely using similar principles that RFID systems have employed. ...

... Another one of the basic technical concepts of RFID is anticollision. To understand anticollision we first must define a collision. An RFID collision involves multiple cards crashing into each other within a reader’s field. This crash need not be a physical touching of cards but rather sending a response to the reader at the same time such that the reader cannot differentiate between cards. ...

RFID Data Synchronization: QRS Puts RFID in Perspective

From PR Newswire (press release) ... Company Outlines Necessity of Data Sync Prior to RFID Adoption RICHMOND, Calif., June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In response to the growing interest in Radio ...

QRS was founded in 1988 with the goal of automating paper-based transactions among retail trading partners to reduce costs and errors. Today, QRS drives collaboration among retailers, marketers/manufacturers and their suppliers around the world to improve supply chain performance and create brand differentiation. Our vision is to be the market leader in collaborative commerce solutions for the global retail trading community. QRS' comprehensive set of collaborative commerce solutions enables companies in retail to accelerate the speed of doing business, resolve problems across trading communities in real time, and bring new products to market faster with higher margins. At QRS, we manage the flow of critical commerce information and leverage our retail technology expertise to address fundamental industry challenges such as global data synchronization, mandate compliance, transaction management and global trade management. QRS solutions help over 10,000* customers expand into new markets and channels, improve operational efficiency and differentiate their brand. QRS Puts RFID in Perspective: To drive better customer and business interactions today, retailers must first focus on solving their data synchronization issues. By using QRS QuickSync to prepare internal data for UCCnet Services, suppliers are laying the foundation for future initiatives such as RFID, CPFR® and participation in the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN). QRS QuickSync addresses internal data synchronization by consolidating item information from multiple sources into one centralized repository. By aligning product data from across the organization, multiple internal parties have a single view into the most up-to-date, accurate information.

RFID Enables Traceability in the U.S. Food Supply: Market Incentives to Establish Traceability

Markets give food suppliers three primary incentives for establishing traceability: improve supply-side management, differentiate and market foods with subtle or undetectable quality attributes, and facilitate traceback for food safety and quality.

Incentive 1: supply-side management
A firm's traceability system is key to finding the most efficient ways to produce, assemble, warehouse, and distribute products. During 2000, American companies spent $1.6 trillion on supply-related activities, including the movement, storage, and control of products across the supply chain. Firms have an incentive to find ways to reduce these costs. In the food industry, where margins are thin, supply-side management, including traceability, is an increasingly important area of competition.

Electronic coding systems, from the bar code system to cutting-edge technologies like radio-frequency identification systems, are helping to streamline the U.S. food supply system. As technological innovation drives down the cost of traceability systems, more and more firms across the food supply chain are developing and maintaining electronic tracking systems. In some cases, buyers manage these systems to monitor supply flow. In other cases, firms establish systems to link suppliers and buyers. A few big retailers have even created proprietary supply-chain information systems that they require suppliers to adopt...