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Monday, March 26, 2007

The University of Arkansas and RFID vendor SensorConnect, Inc., will unveil the results of their RFID experiments at the IEEE RFID 2007 Conference (being held at the Gaylord Texan Resort in conjunction with RFID World 2007) in Grapevine, Texas this week.

Can’t make it to Texas?

A copy of the “SensorConnect Performance and Scalability Experiments” paper can be found at http://www.sensorconnect.com/whitepapers.



SensorConnect and University of Arkansas RFID Lab Present World’s Fastest RFID Transaction Platform at IEEE RFID 2007

Test Results on Performance and Scalability Produced by University of Arkansas RFID Lab Will Be Presented at RFID 2007

IEEE RFID 2007 Conference SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SensorConnect Inc, (www.sensorconnect.com), a leading provider of full global supply chain visibility by multiple parties in real-time, today announced that the company and representatives from University of Arkansas will be presenting the paper, “SensorConnect Performance and Scalability Experiments” at IEEE RFID 2007 Conference being held at the Gaylord Texan Resort in conjunction with RFID World 2007 in Grapevine, Texas, March 26-28, 2007.

Dr. Ray Huetter, CTO of SensorConnect and Dr. Craig Thompson professor and database chair of the University of Arkansas will be discussing the successful completion of a series of tests at the University of Arkansas RFID test labs on an event processing system that showed a peak ingestion and query rate of over 400,000 RFID events per second. These tests were performed on entry level server hardware. SensorConnect was founded to address the well known limitations of today’s transaction processing systems and provides solutions in handling real-time high volume sensor data it has developed a responsive and scalable platform for handling multiple streams of high volume RFID data.

“SensorConnect is very pleased to present the results of the performance and scalability tests at RFID 2007,” stated Dr. Ray Huetter, CTO, SensorConnect. “The results of the experiments demonstrated the ease of deployment of SensorConnect’s technology.”

Dr. Craig Thompson, professor and database chair of the University of Arkansas, states, “The fact that all test results far exceeded expectations shows good promise for the SensorConnect system.”

More information regarding the presentation is included below.

Who: Dr. Ray Huetter CTO, SensorConnect
What: TuC2: SensorConnect Performance and Scalability Experiments
Where: IEEE RFID 2007, Gaylord Texan Resort Grapevine, Texas
When: Tuesday, March 27, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. [end] 

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