Sirit Inc. Rolls Off 250,000th RFID Reader From Production Line
Sirit Inc. (TSX: SI), a leading provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, today announced that it has achieved a market milestone as over a quarter of a million of its leading RFID readers have been shipped to date, including readers from both the IDentity and INfinity series of products.
During the second quarter of 2005, Sirit surged into the number one market share spot worldwide for EPC UHF handheld modules, with total shipments year to date of over 1,500 units including an order of 1,000 units for deployment by a major OEM for a retail application. Cited by OEM customers worldwide for reliability, ease of integration and high level of technical design support, Sirit's range of RFID readers are available in several different configurations with varying frequency and protocol capabilities.
The Sirit readers have been applied to applications in supply chain, logistics, product verification, cashless payments & retail inventory control, to name a few.
"Sirit has been integral to Belgravium's success in bringing our RFID products to market," commented Mike Turner, Marketing Manager, Belgravium Ltd. "Today, Sirit provides the RFID engine in every Belgravium hand held device. Their expertise in RF design and exceptional engineering support translated into reduced costs to our design process and faster time to market of our products."
"Sirit's go to market strategy is unique in the industry. Reaching the 250,000 mark demonstrates Sirit's market leadership in assisting our partners to enable their data collection & data management solutions with RFID," said Norbert Dawalibi, President and CEO, Sirit Inc. "Sirit will continue to develop and market innovative RFID readers to address many emerging and traditional applications such as cashless payments, supply chain & logistics, access control, inventory control & management, asset tracking and product authentication that allow our OEM partners to get to market faster, with lower engineering costs and the confidence in knowing that their products are powered by best of breed RFID capabilities."
About Sirit Inc.
Sirit Inc. (TSX: SI) is a leading provider of Radio Frequency
Identification (RFID) reader technology to OEMs and solution providers
worldwide. Harnessing the power of Sirit's enabling-RFID technology,
customers
are able to more rapidly bring high quality RFID solutions to the market
with
reduced initial engineering costs. Sirit's products are built on more than
12
years of RF domain expertise addressing multiple frequencies (LF/HF/UHF),
multiple protocols and are compliant with global standards. Sirit's broad
portfolio of products and capabilities are easily customized to address new
and traditional RFID market applications including Supply Chain & Logistics,
Cashless Payment, Access Control, Inventory Control & Management, Asset
Tracking and Product Authentication. For more information on Sirit, visit
www.sirit.com.