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EPCIS Ratification Announcement Bigger Than Gen2

Monday, April 16, 2007

EPCglobal today announced the ratification of the Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS), RFID Update reports.

The product code is a secure, real-time standard for data sharing among trusted organizations.

“With the EPCIS industry standard, the technology supporting visibility into the movement and whereabouts of goods and services is coming of age,” said Chris Adcock, president of EPCglobal Inc., in a press release statement. “In terms of industry significance, I believe that the EPCIS standard may have much more of a transformational impact on the industry than the [2004] release of the UHF Gen2 Passive RFID standard.” [end] 

LEGIC Identsystems Ltd expanded its partner network in Southern Europe with the announcement of a joint venture with Spain-based security company Softmachine Systems.

The new affiliation aims to produce contactless access control solutions and installations for multifunctional visitor management including applications for electronic payment and time and attendance.

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IDBLUE unveiled a mobile, Bluetooth ultra-high frequency RFID reader for smart phones and tablets, followed by the announcement that Mygrant Glass Co. Inc. plans to deploy the IDBLUE.UHF reader in each of its almost 600 delivery vehicles nationwide.

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Proclaiming its entrance into the RFID space, Honeywell introduced part of a new product portfolio designed to bring efficiency to the retail industry, the Optimus 5900 RFID mobile computer.

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DAILY RFID released its latest Bluetooth-enabled ultra-high frequency RFID reader, the DL930B.

With a read range of up to eight meters and a fast read rate, the DL930B supports a wide variety of industrial applications, including asset management, baggage handling, container and pallet tracking, item-level inventory management and warehouse logistics.

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American Express has announced that it is adding its Consumer, Open Small Business and Serve cards to the Isis Mobile Wallet platform.

American Express now joins Chase, Capitol One and BarclayCard in enabling its card holders to make NFC payments and collect rewards using an Isis-enabled mobile phone.

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UPM RFID introduced two inlays featuring the NXP UCODE G2iL chip: the UPM Stamp near field ultra-high frequency inlay and UPM Jewel ultra-high frequency inlay.

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