Newsletter | October 16, 2007

10.16.2007 -- EPC RFID Solutions: Returnable Asset Tracking Solutions

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RFID Solutions Online spotlights EPC RFID Solutions.

The Featured Articles section presents an InSync Software white paper explaining its Asset Tracking Solution. Another article of interest outlines Seven Considerations For Your RFID Project. This week's featured editorial is with Marc R. Doyon of Quatred, entitled RFID: Checking The Pulse. RFID Solutions Online also invites you to view the latest RFID Products and up-to-date RFID News Stories.

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MLX90121: An ISO Compliant 13.56MHz RFID Transceiver IC

Melexis' highly versatile 13.56MHz RFID Transceiver IC, the MLX90121, is a low-power consumption RFID Transceiver which targets applications such as portable data terminals, access control readers, contactless payment terminals, and smart label printers. The MLX90121 consists of an analog front end associated to a digital pre-processor which handles ASK, FSK, and PSK demodulation and data encoding. The analog front-end circuitry may be used independent of the digital pre-processor when in direct mode.

Featured Articles
InSync Offers Returnable Asset Tracking Solutions
The use and management of returnable containers has become a mission-critical issue for modern manufacturers due to greater adoption of kanban and JIT-based supply chains and modern trends of environmental conservation and good environmental practices.

Italian Textile Firms Rolls Over To RFID
Featuring Ronny Haraldsvik, vice president of marketing, Alien Technology

Griva, a textile manufacturer near Turin, Italy, has turned to RFID to address inefficiencies in its work-in-progress tracking system, according to RFID hardware provider Alien Technology. Within nine months of deploying a system consisting of Alien EPC Gen 2 tags and readers, Griva achieved a return on its RFID investment, says Ronny Haraldsvik, Alien's vice president of marketing. Used with permission from RFID Journal, Inc.

RFID Anywhere Improves Postal Delivery Service Quality
Correos, the Spanish Postal Service, handles over 5 billion postal deliveries each year and serves over 19 million homes and 2 million companies a day. The company has implemented an RFID system using RFID Anywhere to improve its delivery times and streamline operating procedures.

RFID: Checking The Pulse
By Marc R. Doyon, Quatred

It seems that most of the people today have not only heard of RFID, but are aware of some form of its use. Indeed, it seems that RFID is somehow finding a home in the lexicon of common discourse. RFID exploded in interest with Wal-Mart's June 2003 mandate to their "Top 100" suppliers to put RFID tags on shipping crates and pallets by January 2005.

Seven Considerations For Your RFID Project
As more companies decide to implement RFID at distribution centers, stores, and warehouses, the likelihood of having to comply with one or more industry mandates increases for a variety of suppliers. These mandates promise extreme organizational benefits for those issuing the mandates as well as the ability to streamline an intense amount of data that will ultimately result in a super-efficient supply chain.

Impinj UHF Gen 2 Reader Videos
Impinj parlayed its standards-driving systems expertise into the world's first deployments of Gen 2 products. Embodied in the Impinj GrandPrix solution — the ultimate Gen 2 system — it comprises Impinj's Speedway® reader, the Monza and Monaco tag chip families, and an expanding line of market-specific tag and reader antennas. Working together, these critical elements enable the best-performing UHF RFID solutions available.

Top News Stories
Savi And Comtech ‘RFID-GPS-SATCOM' System Orders Surpass 10,000 Unit Mark
Reva Systems Debuts Turnkey EPCIS Event Reporting Enabling Scalable Enterprise RFID Data Collection
CYBRA And Solzon Form Strategic RFID Partnership
Impinj Expands Global RFID Reseller Network
Lowry Computer Products And GlobeRanger To Develop And Implement Passive RFID Food Traceability Solution For State Of Hawaii Agriculture Department
Domino ISG And HIDE-Pack Announce The Availability Of RFID Smart Boxes
Printronix Signs Distribution Alliance With Ingram Micro UK
MTI Wireless Edge Exhibits Second Generation Near Field Antenna At The RFID EPC Connection 2007
Featured Products
Zebra R110Xi And R170Xi: Multi-Protocol Printer/Encoders For EPC UHF Tags
Zebra's R110Xi and R170Xi printer/encoders offer an unprecedented level of on-demand printing flexibility in tag placement and label size (4-inch and 6-inch), as well as unique features such as XML encoding for a seamless integration into enterprise systems, automatic inlay position calibration, program positioning, multiple power levels for precisely encoding small labels, and statistics tracking.
Product Sheet: R110Xi And R170Xi     Request Information

Psion Teklogix Integrated UHF RFID Reader
The Integrated UHF RFID Reader is an EPC-compliant 900MHz RFID reader available for Psion Teklogix rugged handheld computing devices. Because the integrated reader can be retrofitted to existing devices, customers benefit from investment protection with a device that meets the EPC-compliance requirements of Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Product Sheet: Integrated UHF RFID Reader     Request Information

Motorola XR Series: RFID Fixed Readers
Motorola's fixed RFID readers are designed to wirelessly read from and write to Electronic Product Code (EPC) tagged assets at every critical point in your supply chain. A vital component of our RFID packaged solutions, Motorola's fixed RFID readers efficiently and accurately capture and read data.
Product Sheet: XR440 And XR480 RFID Reader     Request Information

Solutions For Oracle's JD Edwards Applications
Capture accurate, real-time data and integrate it with JD Edwards World and EnterpriseOne with dcLINK®, DSI's data collection solution. dcLINK provides two-way communication between JD Edwards systems and user devices to capture, validate, and process transactions faster and with increased accuracy.
Product Sheet: dcLINK® for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World     Request Information

Domino EIS RFID Compliance 1st Program For DoD
Compliance 1st offers DoD suppliers a clear path to achieve rapid compliance for recent mandates, and also provides strategic planning on how to maximize that compliance investment for future ROI. With Compliance 1st, Enterprise Information Systems provides the hardware, software, services, and planning necessary to reach immediate DoD compliance.
Product Sheet: RFID Compliance 1st DoD     Request Information

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Featured Video
The TampTenna is a high-speed, print-and-apply label solution that achieves near 100% encoding success, built on a time-proven platform. Diagraph presents three videos demonstrating the product's RFID success.
Featured Download
The Role In Standards Development And EPC/RFID Implementations Presentation
By Michele Southall, EPCglobal
Michele Southall, director of community development for EPCglobal North America explains the role in standards development and EPC/RFID implementations at the R U Ready for RFID? Conference held May 23, 2007.
Featured Webinar
Back Room To Store Shelf Webinar
October 18, 2007
11:00 am ET
Join Handleman and epcSolutions for a Webinar as they discuss how leveraging RFID can help solve the last 100 feet of the retail supply chain.
Industry Events
RFID Journal LIVE! Europe 2007
November 6-8, 2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Printed Electronics USA 2007
November 12-15, 2007
San Francisco, CA

ID WORLD International Congress
November 26-28, 2007
Milan, Italy

RFID Journal LIVE! Canada 2007
November 26-28, 2007
Toronto, ON

Active RFID & RTLS Summit
December 5-6, 2007
Dallas, TX
Asset Management Conference & Expo
January 22-23, 2008
Atlanta, GA
Who's Who
InSync Software, Inc. is the leader in deploying fully compatible, sensor-driven business network software for supply chain and asset management. InSync Software provides an RFID and Sensor Driven platform, Edgeware, which allows for customers and partners to rapidly develop and deploy scalable real-world aware applications enhancing existing enterprise solutions.
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