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Brochure: Franwell Product Overview

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:24:00 GMT

Franwell is a technology development company dedicated to providing RFID supply chain solutions for a variety of industries, such as retail foods, pharmaceuticals, and cargo. Our products include RFID consulting, systems and services. Franwell's management team has over 90 years of combined experience in the food industry.

White Paper: Retail Fashion Market RFID Solutions

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:38:00 GMT

In the fast-paced world of fashion, success for retailers hinges on being able to put the right item in the right style or size in the customer's hand at the right time — a simple concept that is difficult to execute for a number of reasons. Fashion is a perishable commodity where trends change overnight, making it difficult to ultimately predict duration and demand. Ordering too much product translates into increased capital expenses that can erode a retailer's bottom line, while ordering too little can lead to missed opportunities and lost sales. By Motorola

Case Study: Johnson & Johnson Cordis de Mexico Ensuring Environmental, Health And Safety Leadership

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:59:00 GMT

Cordis de Mexico is a division of Cordis Corporation, a Johnson & Johnson company, and a leading source of less invasive treatments for vascular disease. Cordis leverages technology innovation and a deep understanding of patients and the medical marketplace to develop and make breakthrough products for interventional medicine, minimally invasive computer-based imaging, and electrophysiology. By Xterprise

Case Study: Sotheby's Secure, Reliable Management Of High Value Assets

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:46:00 GMT

Some of the world's most fascinating-and valuable-books, artworks and jewelry pass through the vaults and galleries of Sotheby's each year, one of the world's oldest and largest auctioneers. By Xterprise

Case Study: Allentown Staying Ahead Of The Competition

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:28:00 GMT

The professionals at Allentown, Inc. knew there had to be a better way. As providers of systems and solutions for the housing of research animals, Allentown was searching for a more efficient, automated way to count and inventory research animals. By Xterprise

Case Study: RFID Streamlines Shipping Process While Increasing Order Accuracy

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:02:00 GMT

Alliance Entertainment Corporation is a leading provider of home entertainment products (CDs, DVDs, videos, video games, and related merchandise). Their business model comprises both direct-to-retail store distribution and Consumer Direct Fulfillment (CDF), providing services to over 30,000 storefronts and shipping over five million individual customer orders per year. By Impinj, Inc.

Guest Column: The RTLS/RFID Technology Wars Are Over

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:43:00 GMT

RTLS, RFID, sensors, and wireless... Now that the technologies are proven, it's all about deployment in productive applications to deliver new wins for management. By John C. Shoemaker, Executive Vice President, Ekahau, Inc.

Brochure: Monza� 4 UHF Gen 2 RFID Tag Chips

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:12:00 GMT

The Monza 4 family of tag chips delivers unique privacy, performance, and memory benefits that address even the most challenging of RFID applications.

Datasheet: Monza� 4 UHF Gen 2 RFID Tag Chips

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:12:00 GMT

The Monza 4 family of tag chips delivers unique privacy, performance, and memory benefits that address even the most challenging of RFID applications.

Product Brief: Packaged Monza� 4 Tag Chips

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:12:00 GMT

With availability of Monza 4 tag chips in a packaged format, Impinj extends the advantages of fully EPCglobalcompliant, high-performance, Monza-powered tags to printed circuit board (PCB) applications and enables ruggedized tag designs

White Paper: Deep And Wide, Near And Far

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:04:00 GMT

By virtue of the innovative ways Impinj exploits the nuances of RF physics, UHF Gen 2 now performs equally well on small, individual items traveling along high-speed manufacturing lines as it does on pallets of cased goods rolling through distribution centers. In the bargain, UHF Gen 2 has rendered the older, slower, and more costly HF (13.56 MHz) RFID technologies obsolete. By Impinj, Inc.

White Paper: UHF Gen 2: The Definitive, Myth-Busting, Item-Level Solution

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:52:00 GMT

RFID has been around a long time. But things have changed rapidly in the last two years, and new opportunities abound. Older formats use relatively low frequencies, whereas a resurgence of interest in RFID has attended the use of ultrahigh frequencies (UHF). By Impinj, Inc.

White Paper: The Gen 2 Story: Charting The Path To RFID That Just Works

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:39:00 GMT

The recently ratified EPCglobal™ Gen 2 RFID standard-the new state of the art in supply chain technology-has raised the bar for competitive RFID systems worldwide. Unfolding in tandem with recent well-publicized retailer and DoD mandates, it would seem that the timing of the new standard couldn't be more opportune. By Impinj, Inc.

White Paper: What It Means, Why It Matters: UHF Gen 2 Interoperability

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:28:00 GMT

Multi-vendor interoperability: This was always the vision for UHF Gen 2. It is, after all, what an open standard is all about. So it was not without some fanfare that the first interoperability certifications were awarded by the standard's keeper, EPCglobal. By Impinj, Inc.

White Paper: RFID Powered By Impinj: Getting Up To Speed

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:03:00 GMT

Wireless communication and identification have been around for a long time. In fact, one of the earliest uses of wireless identification was by World War II pilots who used it to help determine whether oncoming planes were friends or foe. Through advances in technology, our everyday lives are becoming increasingly shaped by wireless communication. By Impinj, Inc.

Guest Series Part 1: Market Landscape Creates Opportunity For RaaS

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:40:00 GMT

RFID Solutions Online is proud to present, How RFID As A Service (RaaS) Can Accelerate Your RFID Application Deployments, a guest series by Ravi Panja, President, InSync Software. Part 1 of this series focuses on the fact that RFID adoption, which is undeniably experiencing growth even in this tough economic climate, has still managed to lag considerably behind analyst projections at the beginning of this century. The reasons for this are far from uniform for each application, as each industry faces unique roadblocks.

The Importance Of RFID Equipment Enclosures

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:20:00 GMT

What should you consider when shopping for equipment enclosures? By Louis Sirico, The RFID Network

White Paper: Package Validation Showcases RFID Advantage For Contract Manufacturers And Packers

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:52:00 GMT

This white paper represents a collaborative effort by Impinj, UPM Raflatac, and Zebra Technologies to provide educational information about the use of item-level, UHF Gen 2 RFID technology for gaining efficiency and reducing cost in process-intensive operations. By Impinj, Inc.

White Paper: Plugging Profit Leaks In The Apparel Sector

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:44:00 GMT

One can liken the apparel supply chain to a water supply system, where the size (and cost) of the pipes depends on the volume required. Leaks along the way can be difficult to spot and repair, but the resultant and persistent loss can cause significant damage. By Impinj, Inc.

Case Study: Impinj RFID Technology Enables Automated Waste Recovery

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:31:00 GMT

Monroe County covers approximately 764 square miles in northeast Mississippi, with a population of over 37,000, and a housing density of nearly 22 units per square mile. Because of state and county laws, the county must pick up any refuse residents place at the curb and bill for this service. The county had been using manual bag pickup, but after researching automated collection systems, selected Labrie Environmental Group in December 2008 to implement a pilot system of five trucks to cover 8,500 households. By Impinj, Inc.