Previous Exhibitors & Sponsors

GS1 UK has driven innovation in the supply chain for over thirty years. It is part of the global GS1 organisation, dedicated to the development and implementation of global data standards and solutions for the supply chain. The GS1 System is the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world. GS1 UK helps industry to implement these data standards through the use of bar codes, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Global Data Synchronisation (GDS) and electronic business messaging.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (Nasdaq: NXPI) provides High Performance Mixed Signal and Standard Product solutions that leverage its leading RF, Analog, Power Management, Interface, Security and Digital Processing expertise. With over 4.5 billion RFID-based chips sold to date, NXP Semiconductors is the world's leader in the design and manufacturing of ICs used in smart labels, tags and the corresponding reader components. The company has been in RFID since 1988 its most comprehensive IC portfolio (HITAG, ICODE, UCODE, reader IC's for LF and HF) covers all relevant RFID frequency bands and meets corresponding ISO/EPC standards.

 

NXP RFID related page: www.nxp.com/rfid

Optaglio s.r.o. is a member of international group of companies Optaglio Group; together with Optaglio Limited (Great Britain) and Metallic Security (Czech Republic). Optaglio s.r.o. is specializing in the development and production of optical security devices and holograms. The production is based on its own long-term research and development. This way Optaglio s.r.o. is moving the limits of the security technologies based on the optical devices and enlarges the portfolio of new security products against counterfeiting.

Ansoft, now part of ANSYS Inc., is a leading developer of high-performance electronic design automation (EDA) software, used to design state-of-the-art electronic products. Owing to the complexities of RFID design and the importance of meeting the time to market, it is vital that development is completed on time and design re-spins are minimised. Using the industry-standard electromagnetic software ANSYS Ansoft HFSS™ (www.hfss.co.uk), the risk of design re-spins can be substantially reduced and development milestones can be achieved on-time.

 

HFSS is the industry-standard software for S-parameter and broadband SPICE extraction, used in the design of passive RFIDs and antennas. Combining the extracted data from HFSS with Ansoft Designer (www.ansoft.co.uk/products/hf/ansoft_designer ), complete circuit and system analysis including active devices and ICs can be simulated.

 

Ansoft tools can improve engineering productivity, reduce development time and better assure first-pass design success.

CAEN RFID is an Italian company, leading supplier of UHF RFID readers and tags. The company was born as a spin-off of CAEN, a world-leading company with 30 years of experience in electronics for nuclear and particle physics. A totally internal expertise and know-how on Radio Frequency electronics and related Software has allowed CAEN RFID to become rapidly a leader in Europe.

As an active participant of ETSI and EPCGlobal working groups since 2004, CAEN RFID is committed to provide customers with state-of-the-art readers and tags that meet ISO/EPC standards and ETSI requirements and outperform its competitors.

CST develops and markets software for the simulation of electromagnetic fields. Its products allow you to characterize, design and optimize electromagnetic devices all before going into the lab or measurement chamber. The extensive range of tools integrated in CST STUDIO SUITE® enables numerous applications to be analyzed without leaving the user-friendly CST design environment and can offer additional security through cross verification. CST's customers operate in industries as diverse as Defense, Telecommunications, Automotive, Electronics, and Medical Equipment. More information at

Cardpos Europe Ltd, the premier European supplier of RFID hardware will be demonstrating our innovative RFID payment watch product for transportation debit and credit cards, together with the extensive range of readers , cards and smart labels for all technologies.

 

We now also print cards and labels to clients specifications, at extremely competitive prices.

 

Please call by our stand to discuss your latest requirements with our friendly and helpful staff.

As a major RFID/USN hardware manufacturer, Ceyon Technology has various customizing experiences in and out of Korea. With catchpraise of 'World Best RFID Technology', the continuous R&D investment and Endeavour for 10 years gave the birth to cutting-edge technology with line-up of RFID products from LF to UHF.

Datatronic a global supplier and manufacturer of RFID equipment and software solutions, innovative and flexible design is at the heart of what we do. Supplying customers in a wide range of market sectors including industrial gases, automotive, food processing and government bodies. Our product list includes -

 

For further details please visit our website at www.Datatronic.eu

Impinj, Inc. is the world's leading innovator in UHF Gen 2 RFID solutions for both item-level and supply-chain tagging. Impinj draws on its technical expertise and industry partnerships to deliver a wide range of products and solutions, comprising high-performance tag chips, readers, reader chips, software, antennas and RFID subsystem integration. Impinj's products provide robust performance, integration and cost effectiveness to a global customer base across numerous vertical markets with applications including inventory management, asset tracking, authentication and serialization.

Java Information Technology was established in 1996 and continuously grown to develop the technology and construct actual project experience through ¡¯97 and ¡¯98 to enhance the technology related to ubiquitous to a higher level.

Moreover, Java Information Technology also organized solutions from ubiquitous and applied into packages to adapt for the developed business.

Java Information Technology is one of the leading companies of SI (System Integration), which based on selected human resources and strong excellent technology with trust. We also provide development of various solutions based on technology of ubiquitous for the geographic information system, which is becoming the core of information industry.

Mobile Mark is a leading manufacturer of antennas offering innovative designs and reliable performance. We will exhibit our varied range of products, including wideband covert and miniature surface mount antennas which are suitable for metering applications. Our manufacturing capabilities and production controls ensure antennas are delivered on-time and to specs. Mobile Mark customers include small, specialized manufacturers and major players in the wireless industry.

 

Products and Services:

Data Collection

M2M Communication

Metering Components

Metering Devices

Security

Smart Grid Solutions

Mobile RFID readers: Nordic ID provides mobile devices for professional use enabling customers to improve their inventory management, customer service, communication and supply chain control.

Omni-ID is a leading supplier of passive RFID tags that deliver near-perfect read rates on, off and near metals and liquids. Omni-ID's patent-pending technology overcomes the "traditional" problems of RFID, enabling a broad range of new applications to improve accuracy and efficiency in asset tracking, supply chain management and work-in-process. Omni-ID has built a robust partner ecosystem with leading RFID technology companies worldwide to deliver complete RFID solutions. Omni-ID's mission is to drive the widespread adoption of RFID technology as the optimal tracking and identification solution. For more information, visit

Oridao develops Digital Trackers & Secured Traceability architectures based on the concept of origin and events authentication for process traceability, field maintenance and logistics tracking applications.

 

Oridao solutions provide unmatched simplicity in terms of deployment and operation and are based on security algorithms and protocols, published, open and compatible with existing RFID standards.

 

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RedBite Solutions Ltd is UK based fast growing technology company that provides easy to deploy and integrate RFID software and solutions to both end users and channel partners globally. Its origins lie in the University of Cambridge Auto-ID Lab from where its founding members originally architected the EPC Network.

Founded in 1996, STid is specialized in contactless identification technologies using radiofrequencies (RFID). Focused on innovative solutions, STid develops and manufactures standard or specific equipments and solution for people identification (access control, time management), vehicle identification (access control, fleet management, tracking) and object identification (traceability and logistics).

STid is involved in large projects and provide our expertise to contactless identification issues in different industries like aeronautics, health care, transport and logistics, food industry.

 

STid has a seasoned and experienced passive RFID team that makes it one of the most important players of the contactless identification market. To offer you the solution the most adapted to your needs, we have chosen to remain technologically independent. Thus STid is permitting you an access to a large range of products and solutions covering all RFID technologies and frequencies : 125 kHz, 13.56 MHz, UHF...

More about us: www.stid.com

SecuriCode is a U.K.-based developer and manufacturer of active RFID modules ranging from standalone products to complete networked solutions including applications used to audit, track, locate, authenticate and search for individuals and products.

 

A range of Tags, Nodes (unique intelligent readers) and applications accommodates multiple industry verticals resulting in global deployments in healthcare, logistics, retailing, security, leisure and education.

 

Tags, Nodes and demonstrator applications are available together as quick-start CodeKits. Installation and operations manuals are supplied with all products and SecuriCode provides installation and support services either directly or via channels.

 

All SecuriCode active solutions are guaranteed at up to 10 meters (15 to 20 meters can be achieved in most environments), a resolution suitable for the accurate location of people and products, and operate in the 2.4 GHz band at low power making them suitable for any country without license and without fear of interference from or to other wireless systems.

 

Nodes and Tags are small and lightweight, designed to be easily installed, and orientation-independent, Tags need not be in alignment to be detected by the Nodes. Fourteen types of power-controllable Nodes are available, with common software utilities and in multiple connectivity options (Ethernet and PoE, Wi-Fi, USB, Compact Flash, serial, RS232 and Wiegand) and some include application-driven relays for access control.

 

Eleven types of Tags are long-life and material-independent (type-dependent) and include movement detection, battery monitoring, encryption, authentication (with nodes), anti-collision and automatic-expiry. Tags do not beacon of their own accord and some incorporate monitored inputs (for sensors), alerts and anti-tamper alarms.

 

Applications include real-time mapping and audit, access control, time and attendance, RFID servers and integration platforms.

The SmartCard Networking Forum is a group of public sector representatives currently from 347 organisations, and rapidly increasing, throughout the UK who are involved in using, planning to use or simply interested in exploring the use of smart cards to improve services to their customers. The Forum's objectives are to:

 

SmartPay Tech is the Korean based leader in new PDA products with unique offerings. SmartPay Plus and SmartCompact Plus PDA products have many new features integrated with RFID technology. These new PDA products are marketed to the data collection and payment industry. Our company has inherited more than 10 years experience from the Sammi Information Systems Co. in Korea by purchasing the intellectual properties and all the necessary tools of the previous SmartCompact model.Unlike other products, SmartPay Plus offers a finger printer verification function as an option as well as CDMA, GPRS, WLAN telecommunications, barcode scanning with 1D/2D and other various built-in industrial functions.

Stora Enso has a long experience of developing solutions for the healthcare industry. These include high-quality packaging boards, award-winning compliance packaging, child resistant blister packaging, specialty boards and consumer packaging. Stora Enso has also worked and added solutions in digital printing to improve on the needs within healthcare to efficiently supply multiple SKU's and variable data through in-line digital printing and converting.

 

New features to improve the compliance control, usability and data transfer via wireless communication are introduced utilising GSM networks. These will lead to more sustainable products and substantial benefits both for the healthcare provider and also for the patients.

 

www.storaenso.com/digital

UKCoding Ltd is a distributor of RFID products:- inlays, smart labels, rigid tags and readers,

at competitive prices.

 

UKCoding Ltd has more than 15 years experience in RFID, sourcing alternative and innovative RFID products to give you the systems integrator, technical and competitive advantages in the market. Our products are sourced directly from the OEM, therefore we are the first line of contact if you need assistance

or service.

sQuid is an independent eMoney network that enables consumers to safely and securely pre-load money on to a sQuid account, which can then be used to make contact less payment for the little things in life, instead of using cash.

 

sQuid's unique pre-pay application enables cashless payments for many different functions such as eMoney for retail payments, ITSO (Transit) schemes, Council card initiatives (such as Bolton's BSmart), school cashless catering, campus environments and retail loyalty programmes.

Avery Dennison is a recognized industry leader that develops innovative identification and decorative solutions for businesses and consumers worldwide. The Company's products include pressure-sensitive labelling materials; graphics imaging media; retail apparel ticketing and branding systems; RFID inlays and tags; office products; specialty tapes; and a variety of specialized labels for automotive, industrial and durable goods applications. A FORTUNE 500 Company with sales of $6.7 billion in 2008, Avery Dennison is based in Pasadena, California and employs more than 36,000 employees in over 60 countries.

CST develops and markets software for the simulation of electromagnetic fields. Its products allow you to characterize, design and optimize electromagnetic devices all before going into the lab or measurement chamber. The extensive range of tools integrated in CST STUDIO SUITE® enables numerous applications to be analyzed without leaving the user-friendly CST design environment and can offer additional security through cross verification. CST's customers operate in industries as diverse as Defense, Telecommunications, Automotive, Electronics, and Medical Equipment. More information at

GS1 UK has driven innovation in the supply chain for over thirty years. It is part of the global GS1 organisation, dedicated to the development and implementation of global data standards and solutions for the supply chain. The GS1 System is the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world. GS1 UK helps industry to implement these data standards through the use of bar codes, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Global Data Synchronisation (GDS) and electronic business messaging.

Mojix is redefining RFID, applying deep space communications technology and a revolutionary new architecture to drive quantum leaps in RFID reliability, reach, scale and security. These advances break through the economic and technical barriers to large-scale, high-volume RFID deployment to deliver on the full promise of RFID.

 

The first product powered by this new technology, the Mojix STAR™ system, extends the accuracy and reach of passive RFID by quantum leaps—enabling unprecedented levels of precision in presence detection, location and security of goods and assets flowing perpetually through supply chains and enterprises.

 

The first of a new class of EPC Gen 2- compliant RFID systems, the Mojix STAR system drama-tically extends the utility of RFID solutions and expands the scope of applications and use cases that can now derive benefits from the economic advantages of passive RFID.

Traak Systems is focussed on delivering high performance complex event processing based solutions for the growing RFID and sensor network markets. By employing highly optimised techniques to process the raw data, we can avoid the potential data overload that can occur when deploying these powerful technologies. Our solutions can help to visualise complex environments such as airports, hospitals and manufacturing plants. With our roots in the University of Edinburgh's top rated School of Informatics, we have access to some of the leading researchers in the UK. We won a prestigious SMART:Scotland Award from the Scottish Government last year in recognition of our core technology and subsequently received investment funding from Braveheart Investment Group. We are a partner of leading companies such as Motorola, Microsoft, Oracle and Ekahau

CAEN RFID is an Italian company, leading supplier of UHF RFID readers and tags. The company was born as a spin-off of CAEN, a world-leading company with 30 years of experience in electronics for nuclear and particle physics. A totally internal expertise and know-how on Radio Frequency electronics and related Software has allowed CAEN RFID to become rapidly a leader in Europe.

As an active participant of ETSI and EPCGlobal working groups since 2004, CAEN RFID is committed to provide customers with state-of-the-art readers and tags that meet ISO/EPC standards and ETSI requirements and outperform its competitors.

Cardpos Europe Ltd, the premier European supplier of RFID hardware will be demonstrating our innovative RFID payment watch product for transportation debit and credit cards, together with the extensive range of readers , cards and smart labels for all technologies.

 

We now also print cards and labels to clients specifications, at extremely competitive prices.

 

Please call by our stand to discuss your latest requirements with our friendly and helpful staff.

Our goal is to support the electronic design community across the UK and to facilitate business partnerships, both within the UK and overseas.

 

We provide a wealth of knowledge and events across a wide range of technology themes on best practice, standards, new techniques or technologies, including innovation, to maintain company growth.

 

We can signpost you to funding, help you find the routes to market, collaborative partners, technologies or research to keep you ahead of the competition.

 

If you are involved at the technology, component, circuit, software, system or product level within the electronics sector, our free-to-join network of companies can help you develop your capabilities and welcomes new members.

HARTING - a World leader in the manufacture of Industrial Interconnection products - also offer UHF RFID transponders and reader systems.

 

These can be used in many storage/handling applications with harsh environments; covering many markets where control and identification is critical.

 

Using EPC Gen 2 protocols and our own 3 dimensional manufacturing techniques for the transponder (HARfid), we can deliver optimal performance with reduced costs.

 

HARTING - your partner of choice for RFID.

IDTechEx provides independent analysis on the development and application of energy harvesting, printed electronics, RFID, electric vehicles and allied technologies.

 

You can trust IDTechEx to help you build your business. We provide consultancy, market research and executive-level events across the US, Europe and Asia.

Java Information Technology was established in 1996 and continuously grown to develop the technology and construct actual project experience through ¡¯97 and ¡¯98 to enhance the technology related to ubiquitous to a higher level.

Moreover, Java Information Technology also organized solutions from ubiquitous and applied into packages to adapt for the developed business.

Java Information Technology is one of the leading companies of SI (System Integration), which based on selected human resources and strong excellent technology with trust. We also provide development of various solutions based on technology of ubiquitous for the geographic information system, which is becoming the core of information industry.

Mobile Mark is a leading manufacturer of antennas offering innovative designs and reliable performance. We will exhibit our varied range of products, including wideband covert and miniature surface mount antennas which are suitable for metering applications. Our manufacturing capabilities and production controls ensure antennas are delivered on-time and to specs. Mobile Mark customers include small, specialized manufacturers and major players in the wireless industry.

 

Products and Services:

Data Collection

M2M Communication

Metering Components

Metering Devices

Security

Smart Grid Solutions

SecuriCode is a U.K.-based developer and manufacturer of active RFID modules ranging from standalone products to complete networked solutions including applications used to audit, track, locate, authenticate and search for individuals and products.

 

A range of Tags, Nodes (unique intelligent readers) and applications accommodates multiple industry verticals resulting in global deployments in healthcare, logistics, retailing, security, leisure and education.

 

Tags, Nodes and demonstrator applications are available together as quick-start CodeKits. Installation and operations manuals are supplied with all products and SecuriCode provides installation and support services either directly or via channels.

 

All SecuriCode active solutions are guaranteed at up to 10 meters (15 to 20 meters can be achieved in most environments), a resolution suitable for the accurate location of people and products, and operate in the 2.4 GHz band at low power making them suitable for any country without license and without fear of interference from or to other wireless systems.

 

Nodes and Tags are small and lightweight, designed to be easily installed, and orientation-independent, Tags need not be in alignment to be detected by the Nodes. Fourteen types of power-controllable Nodes are available, with common software utilities and in multiple connectivity options (Ethernet and PoE, Wi-Fi, USB, Compact Flash, serial, RS232 and Wiegand) and some include application-driven relays for access control.

 

Eleven types of Tags are long-life and material-independent (type-dependent) and include movement detection, battery monitoring, encryption, authentication (with nodes), anti-collision and automatic-expiry. Tags do not beacon of their own accord and some incorporate monitored inputs (for sensors), alerts and anti-tamper alarms.

 

Applications include real-time mapping and audit, access control, time and attendance, RFID servers and integration platforms.

Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales over $3 billion and 11,000 employees, Sun Chemical operates in 110 countries worldwide. Leveraging 50 years of experience as a supplier to the printed circuits industry, Sun Chemical has recently commercialized a range of new products for membrane switch, RFID and photovoltaics markets. Through an ongoing commitment to developing innovative products that provide value to our customers, Sun Chemical is investing in facilities and technologies targeted at the evolving printed electronics market.

Scanology is a specialist provider of identification and tracking systems to the European market.

 

Our team contains both skilled technicians and experienced business users.

 

Our mission is to minimise the business risk of our clients by providing complete visibility of their assets and processes.

 

We achieve this by

 

Specialist consultancy on

 

Areas of expertise include

CST develops and markets software for the simulation of electromagnetic fields. Its products allow you to characterize, design and optimize electromagnetic devices all before going into the lab or measurement chamber. The extensive range of tools integrated in CST STUDIO SUITE® enables numerous applications to be analyzed without leaving the user-friendly CST design environment and can offer additional security through cross verification. CST's customers operate in industries as diverse as Defense, Telecommunications, Automotive, Electronics, and Medical Equipment. More information at

Impinj, Inc. is the world's leading innovator in UHF Gen 2 RFID solutions for both item-level and supply-chain tagging. Impinj draws on its technical expertise and industry partnerships to deliver a wide range of products and solutions, comprising high-performance tag chips, readers, reader chips, software, antennas and RFID subsystem integration. Impinj's products provide robust performance, integration and cost effectiveness to a global customer base across numerous vertical markets with applications including inventory management, asset tracking, authentication and serialization.

With more than one hundred years of experience in hot stamping, KURZ is a world leading company in thin layer technology.

 

KURZ now offers an innovative new product: SECOBO® high-performance antenna foils for applications including paper tickets, plastic cards and mobile phones. SECOBO® antenna foils can be applied to a wide range of substrates and represent a durable and high-quality technology platform for typical contactless applications.

 

KURZ is committed to the development of new technologies for the markets of tomorrow. For further information on SECOBO® and other innovative new products from KURZ please contact Thorsten Hepp, Marketing and Sales Manager, Thorsten.Hepp@kurz.de.

MBBS is a Swiss company with 13 employees and 9 patents.

MBBS is Leader in through-metal RFID technology for harsh environments

• Read and write through metal RFID capability

• TAGs resistant to very stringent conditions (high temperature (240 °C), steam sterilisation at 134°C, high pressure (2000 bar), corrosive chemicals, abrasion...)

MBBS has established solutions with market leaders

• Brainlab for their computer assisted surgery solution

• Sateco for their formworks

• Bugatti for their eyeglasses

 

MBBS has products and solutions for healthcare, industrial and luxury applications

• Hospital sterilisation market

• Medical devices market

• Conveyor belts, Building equipments, watches

Omni-ID is a leading supplier of passive RFID tags that deliver near-perfect read rates on, off and near metals and liquids. Omni-ID's patent-pending technology overcomes the "traditional" problems of RFID, enabling a broad range of new applications to improve accuracy and efficiency in asset tracking, supply chain management and work-in-process. Omni-ID has built a robust partner ecosystem with leading RFID technology companies worldwide to deliver complete RFID solutions. Omni-ID's mission is to drive the widespread adoption of RFID technology as the optimal tracking and identification solution. For more information, visit

Sonitor Technologies, recently named North American RTLS Emerging Company of the Year by Frost and Sullivan, offers a unique ultrasound IPS (Indoor Positioning System) that automatically tracks the real-time location of moveable equipment and/or people in complex environments with 100% room-level, or sub room-level (such as bed-level) accuracy.

Due to the unique attributes of ultrasound there is no risk of electromagnetic interference with other equipment. The low quantity of data transmitted from the Tags requires minimal LAN bandwidth so existing wired or wireless LAN can easily be leveraged. The Sonitor IPS, now chosen by more than 30 hospitals, is fully, easily and quickly scalable.

Traak Systems is focussed on delivering high performance complex event processing based solutions for the growing RFID and sensor network markets. By employing highly optimised techniques to process the raw data, we can avoid the potential data overload that can occur when deploying these powerful technologies. Our solutions can help to visualise complex environments such as airports, hospitals and manufacturing plants. With our roots in the University of Edinburgh's top rated School of Informatics, we have access to some of the leading researchers in the UK. We won a prestigious SMART:Scotland Award from the Scottish Government last year in recognition of our core technology and subsequently received investment funding from Braveheart Investment Group. We are a partner of leading companies such as Motorola, Microsoft, Oracle and Ekahau

PowerID is the industry leader in the field of Battery-Assisted, Passive (BAP) RFID. The company provides reliable and cost-effective BAP RFID labels for selected applications in industries involving freight, metals, chemicals, paper, people tracking, and cold chain.

 

With corporate headquarters in Israel, PowerID is a privately-held company backed by first-tier investors such as Partech International, Apax Partners, Clal Industries and Investments, Amadeus Capital Partners, Infinity Venture Capital, and Bank of America.

BemroseBooth provides RFID products and services for mission critical applications.

 

BemroseBooth specialise in custom RFID constructions with flexibility on frequency, chip types, materials, adhesives and additional security features.

 

We have millions of tags in daily use.

 

Our range of products and services includes: RFID labels, tickets, smartcards, mount on-metal tags, ruggedised tags, bespoke tag design, bureau personalisation and fulfilment services.

 

BemroseBooth's RFID strategy is based on collaboration with world-class industry experts, chip providers, systems integrators and equipment manufacturers. We maintain a technology neutral position and work with a wide range of partners to develop the most effective RFID product solutions for individual customer needs.

CAEN RFID is an Italian company, leading supplier of UHF RFID readers and tags. The company was born as a spin-off of CAEN, a world-leading company with 30 years of experience in electronics for nuclear and particle physics. A totally internal expertise and know-how on Radio Frequency electronics and related Software has allowed CAEN RFID to become rapidly a leader in Europe.

As an active participant of ETSI and EPCGlobal working groups since 2004, CAEN RFID is committed to provide customers with state-of-the-art readers and tags that meet ISO/EPC standards and ETSI requirements and outperform its competitors.

Coronis Systems designs and develops ultra-low-power long-range wireless solutions and platforms for OEMs and integrators.

 

The company is the creator of Wavenis a highly optimized wireless platform based on the Wavenis RF core and wireless connectivity protocol. Coronis Systems offers system integrators a complete line of wireless products and development platforms for creating custom devices in many markets. With its proven industrial maturity, Wavenis is surfacing as the ideal ultra-low-power and long-range solution to complement Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies.

 

In keeping with its initial long-term strategy, Coronis Systems is now opening Wavenis specifications for industry-wide standardization. Purely as a wireless connectivity platform, Wavenis offers a powerful foundation for a wide range of application protocols wishing to extend their performance with truly ultra-low-power, long-range, reliability, robustness and coexistence features.

Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing WiFi-based RTLS and site survey solutions. Ekahau's customers, including several Fortune 500 companies worldwide, are realizing the benefits of WiFi based location services and innovative WiFi network planning and optimization tools. Ekahau's solutions are being used in more than 150 hospitals around the world, as well as by manufacturers, mining/oil/gas companies, government agencies and the military. Ekahau partners include wireless software developers, leading system integrators and international OEM partners, who develop and market wireless enterprise applications. Ekahau is a U.S.-based corporation, with offices in the USA, Europe and Asia.

Friendly Technologies is a UK start-up developing a radically new approach to RFID aimed at protecting privacy and security whilst improving tag affordability.

 

Our patented invention renders tags simpler and more reliable, opening up the possibility of using low-density, low-cost tag manufacturing techniques such as printed electronics. This makes our tags ideal for most FMCG applications, specially inventory visibility and anti-counterfeiting.

 

Our technology addresses many of the current challenges that have been encountered by supply chain partners as they seek to reduce costs and streamline operations through RFID.

GS1 UK has driven innovation in the supply chain for over thirty years. It is part of the global GS1 organisation, dedicated to the development and implementation of global data standards and solutions for the supply chain. The GS1 System is the most widely used supply chain standards system in the world. GS1 UK helps industry to implement these data standards through the use of bar codes, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Global Data Synchronisation (GDS) and electronic business messaging.

Mobile Mark is a leading manufacturer of antennas offering innovative designs and reliable performance. We will exhibit our varied range of products, including wideband covert and miniature surface mount antennas which are suitable for metering applications. Our manufacturing capabilities and production controls ensure antennas are delivered on-time and to specs. Mobile Mark customers include small, specialized manufacturers and major players in the wireless industry.

 

Products and Services:

Data Collection

M2M Communication

Metering Components

Metering Devices

Security

Smart Grid Solutions

Soldertec Global is a business providing laboratory testing, troubleshooting, and analytical services to the global electronics industry. It is part of ITRI Ltd, a company with extensive research and development expertise based on its long association with the tin industry. It was its tin industry background, and involvement in electronics soldering research, which led the company to develop its expertise and commercial services in the electronics sector.

 

Soldertec Global has modern, well-equipped laboratories, which incorporate an extensive range of testing and analytical equipment. This includes X-ray inspection, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Solderability testing and SIR. These laboratory capabilities and the expertise of specialist staff can provide solutions to a wide range of issues and problems. Soldertec Global is a leading authority on the implementation of lead-free soldering technology and specialises in testing of components and materials for compliance with the RoHS Directive.

Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales over $3 billion and 11,000 employees, Sun Chemical operates in 110 countries worldwide. Leveraging 50 years of experience as a supplier to the printed circuits industry, Sun Chemical has recently commercialized a range of new products for membrane switch, RFID and photovoltaics markets. Through an ongoing commitment to developing innovative products that provide value to our customers, Sun Chemical is investing in facilities and technologies targeted at the evolving printed electronics market.

The Toyo Ink Group develops a broad array of high-functional, high-value-added materials for printed electronics and industrial applications. Our Rexalpha series of conductive silver pastes used for forming RFIDs and FPCs, leads the field in ultra-thin and low resistance properties. Other cutting-edge products on display are insulators for touch screen panels and FPCs as well as various adhesive films and conductive tapes for EMI shielding applications.

 

Toyo Ink leverages our advanced manufacturing expertise based on our core colorants and resins technology, continuously pushing for improvements. Come see why we have been the leader in print innovation for over a century now.

Our goal is to support the electronic design community across the UK and to facilitate business partnerships, both within the UK and overseas.

 

We provide a wealth of knowledge and events across a wide range of technology themes on best practice, standards, new techniques or technologies, including innovation, to maintain company growth.

 

We can signpost you to funding, help you find the routes to market, collaborative partners, technologies or research to keep you ahead of the competition.

 

If you are involved at the technology, component, circuit, software, system or product level within the electronics sector, our free-to-join network of companies can help you develop your capabilities and welcomes new members.

UK Displays and Lighting Network was launched in April 2006 as part of the DTI - "Knowledge Transfer Networks' programme. UKDL is a vibrant central hub of activity for the displays and lighting community. Designed to stimulate innovation in the key technology sectors by promoting collaboration, best practice and knowledge sharing between industry and academia. By encouraging partnerships and teamwork, UKDL aims to support science base through to end-users. Positioning the UK as the innovation engine for Europe.

 

UKDL supports and strengthens the UK Displays and Lighting Sector through tutorials, workshops and seminars with training and education embracing all levels of industry, commerce and academia. We encourage commercial and industrial collaborations between members that result in creation of wealth for UK plc through the profitable activities of members.