EPCglobal Awards Accreditation Mark To ADT Europe RFID Performance Lab
EPCglobal Inc. has awarded its Performance Test Center Accreditation Mark to ADT for its European radio frequency identification (RFID) Performance Lab. EPCglobal is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of driving the commercial adoption of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) in global supply chains.
The Accreditation Mark signifies that a company has successfully completed the EPCglobal Performance Test Centre Audit and that it uses a standard set of performance test profiles to simulate real-world conditions in testing the readability of end-user products that are tagged with the EPC.
ADT's European RFID Performance Lab is based in Echt, Netherlands. It is only the second facility in Europe to gain EPCglobal accreditation - and the first by an RFID solution provider to other companies. Globally, it will be only the fifth facility to gain the accreditation to date. ADT's U.S. performance lab, located in Boca Raton, Fla., will go through the same accreditation process later this year.
"The EPCglobal accreditation process is extremely rigorous, and this is a significant milestone to have reached," said Gerrit Wassink, ADT Europe's RFID general manager. "The RFID Performance Lab enables companies across Europe to test their products in a real-world environment. By placing products in an active RFID-enabled warehouse, businesses can effectively simulate the processes involved in an RFID-enabled supply chain – which is vital to ensure RFID roll-outs are successful."
"We are very pleased to add the ADT RFID Performance Lab to the list of EPCglobal Accredited Performance Test Centres," said Chris Adcock, president of EPCglobal Inc. "Our goal is to make it easy for end users to send their tagged shipments through their global supply chains and know those shipments will be read. The EPCglobal Performance Test Centre Accreditation Programme will help end users by providing them with accredited third party test facilities that can test their products for readability before those products enter the supply chain."
About EPCglobal Inc
EPCglobal Inc™, a subsidiary of GS1, is a not-for-profit organization entrusted by industry to establish and support the EPCglobal Network™ as the global standard for real-time, automatic identification of information in the supply chain of any company, anywhere in the world. www.epcglobalinc.org.
About ADT
Celebrating its 131st anniversary, ADT, a unit of Tyco Fire & Security, is the largest provider of electronic security services to more than six million commercial, government and residential customers throughout North America. ADT's total security solutions include intrusion, fire protection, closed circuit television, access control, critical condition monitoring, electronic article surveillance, radio frequency identification (RFID) and integrated systems. ADT's web site address is www.adt.com.