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Essen RFID to partner with Bartonics

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Essen RFID, an RFID hardware provider based in India, has announced a partnership agreement with Bartronics Ltd., one of India’s largest RFID solutions providers. As part of the partnership arrangement, Bartonics will add several of Essen’s RFID devices to its catalog of product offerings.

With the new agreement, Essen’s UHF integrated antenna, called the XtennaPlus, will become part of Batronics’ roster of RFID devices used in the research and development of new solutions. The Hyderabad-based Batronics will also make the XtennaPlus regularly available to its customer base.

The deal gives Essen access to not just Batronics’ Indian market, but also its growing international customer base. [end] 

SML Group Ltd announced the launch of its new “ViziT” RFID item visibility solutions for the retail apparel and item tracking applications.

The ViziT solutions include a range of RFID/EAS enabled paper and woven labels, as well as tickets and sticker that can be attached to garments and stacked items. Using the SML ViziT IT cloud based data management software also provides for semi automated inventory control, as well as improved loss prevention by triggering alarms and item identification at the store exit.

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SICK Group, a producer of sensors and sensor solutions for industrial applications, announced a range of new RFID readers and labels designed for identification in the automotive industry.

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GAO RFID announced its handheld RFID reader series for animal identification and management, for applications such as stock breeding, animal control, or foodstuff tracking systems.

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Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a pair of encapsulated RFID mini-transponders designed for applications in animal tagging and asset tracking.

The 12mm TRPGR30TGC and TRPGP40TGC mini-transponders were developed to enable users a battery-free solution for embedding RFID tags into smaller objects across a broader range of applications. These transponders come ready-to-use and are 100 percent backwards compatible with all of TI’s RFID software and readers including power modules, control modules and micro readers.

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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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Leo InnoTech (LIT) and UPM RFID have carried out a large-scale item-level RFID implementation for a Chinese apparel company focusing primarily on warehouse logistics optimization.

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