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Rfidium launches Leprechaun tag

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Antenna inlay provider Rfidium has announced the availability of the “Leprechaun,” a new RFID tag designed specifically for box and pallet tagging on cardboard boxes or polymeric containers. The tag is intended for inventory and trace-back tracking of a variety of food and beverage, pharmaceutical and commodity applications.


The new tag has a read range of over 4.2 meters in free-space propagation and is compliant to ASTM D 4169, Loose Cargo, Commercial Temperature and Vibration Levels. Also, the Leprechaun is an aluminum antenna inlay, complying with strict WEEE and RoHS environmental requirements, helping to minimize environmental impact for customers focusing on green operations.

The Leprechaun is designed to work with a wide variety of packaging types and package contents. Despite a small footprint, greater amounts of metal area make it less susceptible to influence by the materials being tracked; for example, pots of gold. [end] 

HID Global announced the debut of two new Glass Tag Ultra RFID transponders for animal identification and industrial applications.

The HID Global design featured in the Glass Tag Ultra 134.2 kHz transponders use direct bonding technology and optimized chip placement to enable a boost of performance. Read ranges are improved by up to 35% compared to low frequency glass tags of the similar size.

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Tyler Technologies has rolled out its new Versatrans Student Tracking product for installation in school buses to identify which students get off at which stops and when.

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UPM RFID announced the new UPM Web ultra-high frequency (UHF) and UPM Trap near field (NF) UHF inlays based on the Monza RFID chip from Impinj.

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UK mobile operator O2 has announced the launch of its O2 Wallet mobile money service.

O2 Wallet enables users transfer funds up to £500 to any UK mobile phone number, compare the prices of goods via bar code scan, receive coupons and offers, link credit and debit cards to their accounts, and shop online with a prepaid Visa O2 Money Account Card.

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TrackIT Solutions, an RFID solutions provider based in the Middle East, announced the launch of EnTrackAsset, a Web-enabled RFID tracking solution designed to streamline and automate corporate asset management.

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A new study reveals the market for RFID transponders, readers, software and services will generate more than $70.5 billion from 2012 to the end of 2017.

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