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PanGo Integrates Active and Passive RFID for a better location-management platform

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

Las Vegas – “Empowering employees and systems with information about what’s happening in the real world is critical” said Mike McGuinness, CEO of PanGo Networks. “The missing piece has always been a unified view of the real-time location of critical resources. By leveraging multiple locationing capabilities through a single platform architecture, our customers can develop, deploy and manage cost-effective solutions that enable real-time visibility throughout their entire operations.?

That’s the scoop from Las Vegas, where PanGo is demonstrating PanOS Platform and asset tracking applications at the RFID Journal LIVE annual conference.

The Framingham, Mass. Company’s new PanOS software platform got bigger and better this Spring. Now, for the first time, applications used by hospitals, manufacturers and third-party solution providers can tap standards-based active and passive RFID technologies from a single platform. This reportedly reduces the number of assets that can be tracked, eliminating “the need for proprietary choke point or portal solutions that add complexity and cost to corporate networks.” [end] 

Intelligent Insites Inc. announced that its InSites RTLS healthcare software solution now supports ThingMagic Astra readers for passive RFID data integration.

The ThingMagic Astra reader is an ultra-high frequency RFID reader with a fully integrated antenna designed for commercial environments, such as hospitals and clinics. Astra readers offer Power over Ethernet (PoE) and WiFi options to support flexible, low cost installations.

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Zebra and Checkpoint Systems have entered into a cooperative relationship and licensing agreement. While the exact terms of the transaction were not disclosed, the relationship does bring together Zebra’s active location solutions with Checkpoint division OATSystems’ passive RFID, auto-ID and sensor capabilities.

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VingCard Elsafe announced a technology interface has been completed between its line of contactless RFID hotel locking solutions and SKIDATA, an Austrian provider of access management and ticketing solutions for ski resorts, airports, sports venues and tourist attractions.

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Gaming Partners International Corporation announced that it will introduce several new products at the upcoming Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia exhibition in Macau, China.

GPI will release new currency security features that can be added to any of the company’s chip brands, highlighting several enhancements to its Bourgogne-et-Grasset (B&G) currency and RFID product portfolios.

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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) announced the publication the new 802.15.4f-2012 standard for active RFID and RTLS.

This new standard will enable interoperability between systems and give end users a wider selection of vendors, whereas in the past the choice has been limited to a single source that supplies a proprietary technology platform.

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Air-Trak, in collaboration with Intermec, announced a partnership with Specialty Solid Waste & Recycling to deliver a new RFID solution to improve billing accuracy and customer support for solid waste management.

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