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- Is this the Future of RFID?
EPCglobal (www.epcglobalinc.org)
will administer and develop EPC standards developed by the MIT Auto-ID
Center. The Auto-ID Center officially closed on October 26th, 2003.
The Center has completed its work and transferred its technology to
EPCglobal. The university labs of the former Auto-ID Center are now
referred to as Auto-ID Labs (www.autoidlabs.org).
The Auto-ID Center was founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1999. Its aim from the start was to create a global system for
tracking goods using a single numbering system called the Electronic
Product Code.
- Information about RF Tag Technology and Applications
- Vendors of RFID Products and services
- Alien Technology™
- has developed, and holds exclusive patent rights to, an manufacturing
assembly technology called Fluidic Self Assembly (FSA) that allows
for the efficient placement of arbitrarily large numbers of small
components across a surface in a single operation. The company plans
to first use the technology to distribute pixel drive circuits to
make electronic displays, but it will also be applied to other problems,
such as antennas, sensors and very low-cost RFID tags.
- Amtech - Aquired by TransCore.
Tagging systems for rail rolling stock, toll roads and parking systems
- Atmel Semiconductor
- Atmel ships about 60M RFID die every year. Primary markets are animal
ID and access control. Atmel purchased Temic Semiconductor's RFID
division several years ago.
- AVID Canada - Tagging
systems for pets and livestock
- Avery Dennison
- EPC Gen 1 and Gen 2 RFID tables
- bielomatik Leuze
GmbH + Co - With headquarters in Neuffen, Germany, bielomatik
produces RFID Transponder Processing Systems. Inlay conditioning equipment,
multi-web lamination, finishing systems for smart products (labels,
tags, tickets, documents), and high speed read/write units for RFID.
- Card Key - a subsidiary of
Amtech Corporation
- Casi-Rusco - Access control
(badge entry) systems
- ChampionChip offers a
system for sports event timing which includes the combination of synchronized
multiple antennas, high-tech analog and digital electronics, and dedicated
software for live bulk data handling.
- Checkpoint Systems.
Provides security solutions including Electronic Article Surveillance
(EAS) and Electronic Access Control (EAC) using radio frequency (RF)
technology, and POS monitoring, CCTV, and fire/burglar alarm monitoring.
- CopyTag based in Essex England,
is a RFID systems integrator employing a wide variety of RFID products.
Their current web site provides a good guide for successfully
implementing RFID systems.
- Cotag International - a subsidiary
of Amtech Corporation
- Cross Point based in the
Netherlands, Cross Point is a manufacturer of RF-EAS and RFID equipment
and components used in the security industry.
- Destron Fearing has
been in the animal identification business since 1945. For over
50 years, Destron Fearing has developed, manufactured and marketed
a broad range of individual animal identification products.
A strategic partner, Schering-Plough
Animal Health, markets HomeAgain™ in the United States.
The Companion Animal Recovery Database managed by the AKC.
- Deuteron Acquisition - a RFID
systems integrator based in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada. Specializing
in custom software for RFID systems.
- Diagnostic Instruments
Ltd - Based in Livingston, Scotland, DI has designed a fully ruggedised
'RFID platform', capable of integrating a wide range of RFID technologies.
- Fairchild Semiconductor
has been manufacturing the RFID chips since the 1990s, when Fairchild
and IBM first co-developed the RFID technology. Fairchild continued
to manufacture the chips for Intermec's Intellitag RFID tags since
Intermec acquired the IBM technology in December 1997.
- Fowler TagLogic RFID
Tag System
- FD Fleischhauer - Based in Bochum,
Germany, FD Fleischhauer specializes in tickets, labels, cards and
coins with magnetic stripe, bar-code, chip or transponder (RFID) as
admission ticket, car park ticket, employee or customer card for access
control, time access and identification.
- Gemplus Gemplus Tag was a
division of Gemplus, a provider of smart card based solutions.
On October 15, 2001, Gemplus Tag became TAGSYS,
an independent RFID company.
- IB Technology Ltd.
Head quartered in Worcestershire, UK, IB Technology designs and manufactures
a range of unique and low cost single chip RFID readers for a number
of the most popular read/write and read-only 125 kHz RF transponders.
- IDTechEx is a consultancy
company, based in Cambridge, UK, which specialises in market and technical
intelligence in low cost RFID, smart cards and laminar electronics.
- GSC Systems is a private
company located in Cape Town, South Africa, specializing in access
control, time recording and RFID identification systems. Their
RFID products consist primarily of Proximity Access Control Systems.
- HOTRACO MicroID BV
is an independent Company that develops, produces and markets all
components for RF/ID for animals..
- i-Ray is a new RFID supplier
that develops wireless location and positioning technologies.
- IDENTEC Solutions
was established to develop Intelligent Long Range (ILR) technology
targeted initially at the reusable pallet and container (RPC) market.
They offer RFID tags and readers operating in the 915 or 868 MHz ISM
band.
- Idesco Idesco Oy is a Finnish
hi-tech company, that develops, manufactures and markets RFID (Radio
Frequency IDentification) readers, reader modules, tags and cards.
Idesco was founded in 1989 and is "... one of the oldest RFID
companies in Europe. The first Read/Write (R/W) RFID applications
have been delivered in the year 1991 using Idesco technology."
IDmicro IDmicro LLC specializes
in the integration of 'Smart Chips' for use in business automation
for air, bus, truck, rail, toll and retailing.
- id Systems - Manchester,
UK. id Systems designs and manufactures a wide range of RFID products,
for low (125/134 kHz) and high (13.56 MHz) frequency tags and smart
labels available from leading vendors.
- Impinj - Rewritable EPC Class
0 ProductsRFID chip manufacturer. offices in Seattle, Washington and
Orange County, California.
- Infineon Technologies AG
- On April 1st, 1999, Siemens Semiconductors became Infineon Technologies
AG, Munich, Germany. Infineon offers semiconductor and system solutions
for applications in the wired and wireless communications markets,
for security systems and smartcards, for the automotive and industrial
sectors, as well as memory products. RFID products include two chips
in the Identsystem IC family to address specific market requirements;
a “plain” memory mode (my-d 10P), and an enhanced security “crypto”
mode (my-d 10S) with access to memory sectors controlled by up to
14 keys for protected sectors. my-d IC is a 13.56 MHz RF device with
a unique ID code and up to 10 Kilobit of secure, writable memory that
can be divided into multiple sectors for different users, including
sectors protected by cryptographic keys.
- INKODE - Produces non-silicon,
passive, read only, microwave band RFID products
- Intersoft - Provides
solutions with easy to use and inexpensive identification devices
for the small and medium size company. Intersoft has been designing
and manufacturing identification and control hardware/firmware since
1991. Developed a passive LF RFID tag and reader manufactured
here in Tennessee.
- Integrated Product Intelligence
Limited (IPI) - IPI is a UK based independent consulting company
in the field of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). As a
member of the UK's BSI IST34 committee, IPI contributes to the international
ISO SC31 standards committee on tagging.
- Keri Systems - A San Jose,
CA USA based supplier of access control systems products. OEM supplier
of proximity cards, tags, and proximity readers with optional HID
compatibility.
- Marconi - Supplies RFID tags
designed to be attached to metal, glass, wood, plastic or cardboard.
- Matrics - A relatively
new RFID company based in Columbia, Maryland. Matrics provides 902-928
MHz. RFID systems comprised of silicon-based RFID tags, reader electronics,
and system management software.
- Mountain View Systems
- Mountain View Systems in Decatur, GA USA is an RFID Systems Integrator.
MVS uses off-the-shelf RFID hardware to create cost-effective inventory
and supply chain management efficiencies.
- Nedap A Netherlands based company
founded in 1929. Nedap has 25 years experience in applications
involving RF/EAS and RF/ID such as access control, cattle management,
and logistics.
- Northern Apex
RFID is a US based hardware and software solutions integrator,
specializing in 13.56 MHz smart chip technology for asset tracking,
inspection and revenue tracking applications.
- OmniProx Provides fully-featured
proximity readers from OmniTek,
an ADEMCO Group Company.
- Omron Corporation - a
global electronics company founded in 1933. Has provided RFID Systems
designed for industrial environments for the last fourteen years.
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Philips Contactless Identification products - Philips Semiconductors'
offers a total capability in IC-based identification technology, providing
you with the technologies you need to develop innovative identification
solutions. With the broadest portfolio, covering all smart card and
RF identification applications, we can help you exploit new market
opportunities rapidly.
I·CODE smart label technology
- RandTEC, Inc.
- RFID, inc. is a privately
held C Corporation incorporated in the State of Nevada doing business
as RFID America in Denver Colorado.
RFID, inc. is focused on the manufacture for resale of its RFID systems
in off the shelf forms to End Users, Resellers, Integrators, VARS,
as well as the development of new RFID systems for OEM’s interested
in customized systems for incorporation into their own product offerings.
- SAMsys Inc.
- SAVI Technology provides
real-time visibility into global supply chains to dynamically improve,
control, and optimize operational performance. Founded in 1989, the
Defense Department awarded Savi a $70 million contract in 1994, followed
by a $112 million contract in 1997 to install its RFID hardware and
software for item-level tracking in containers shipped to military
installations around the world. Savi was acquired by Texas Instruments
in 1995, and then sold to Raytheon
Corporation in 1997. In July 1999 Savi Technology employees and a
group of investors purchased the company from Raytheon.
- Scemtec (Germany) - Provider
of System solutions for nearly all of the most frequently used types
of passive radio frequency transponders (125 kHz and 13.56 MHz RF-tags).
- Scirocco AB - Infrared RFID
(IRID) Stockholm-Kista Science City in Sweden
- SCS Corp.- Founded in 1992
with the goal of bringing practical, low-cost identification technology
to the "real world".
- Sensormatic Electronic
Security
- Siemens
One of the leading companies for RF-Identification systems (MOBY)
in Europe. Siemens offers inductive identification systems for
industrial automation such as assembly lines, logistics, commissioning
and box identification in warehouses, container and cargo identification,
subway identification, etc.
- SIGNAL Computer
Consultants - AEI tag programming service. AAR AEI Standard S-918
- SkyeTek - Provides embedded
HF and UHF RFID reader modules for OEMs and device manufacturers.
SkyeTek operates worldwide with offices in USA, Europe, Japan, China
and Korea
- Tag-All A U.K. based company
which provides electronic tagging systems where the input technology
is not important: Asset tracking, Animal Identification systems, ticketing
systems, baggage systems.
- Tagmaster AB - CONFIDENT
microwave tags
- TagSense - A MIt spin-off
company that specializes in Custom RFID Development and also sells
item-level RFID solutions.
- TAGSYS - Formerly Gemplus Tag.
TAGSYS is headquartered in France with subsidiaries on 3 continents.
TAGSYS manufactures passive RFID products and provides complete RFID
systems from chip design, tags and smart labels, readers and antennas,
to application-specific reading stations.
- TECTUS is based in Switzerland
and Germany and manufactures custom GPS and 125 KHz and 13.56 MHz
RFID tags and readers for automotive, animal ID, industrial, medical,
access control, time management, electronic brand protection.
- TIRIS™
, A Texas Instruments Company
- UPM Raflatac - Based in
Finland, UPM Raflatac is a large capacity provider for the integrated
production of advanced radio frequency identification (RFID) transponders.
UPM Raflatac is a value added reseller of Philips I-code inlets and
transponders.
- WaveNet International Inc.
- Designs, manufactures, markets and supports products compatible
with the Association of American Railroads S-918 Standard for Automatic
Equipment Identification (AEI)
- Wearnes Cambion Ltd. - Based
in the UK, Wearnes Hollingsworth Ltd, Cambion Division manufactures
RFID antenna
coils for RFID tags and readers operating on the frequencies between
100KHz and 150KHz.
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