Sponsors and Exhibitors

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.

 

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CST is one of the two largest suppliers of electromagnetic simulation software and has continuously enhanced its position as market and technology leader in 3D Time Domain simulation. With over 160 employees worldwide and a network of qualified distributors, 200 people are dedicated to the development and support of its EM products in more than 30 countries. CST MICROWAVE STUDIO(R) (CST MWS) is the market leading time domain tool for 3D EM simulation. Embedded in an advanced design environment, it can be coupled with all CST STUDIO SUITE(tm) solver technology including circuit and thermal simulation.

Impinj, Inc. is the world's leading technical innovator in developing 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 systems integration. Impinj products provide unprecedented performance, integration and cost effectiveness to a global customer base, in applications across numerous vertical markets, including inventory management, asset tracking, authentication and serialization. For more information, visit www.impinj.com.

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 one of the world's leading innovators of passive ultra high frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Through its patent-pending revolutionary technology Omni-ID "cracked the code" to overcome the problems traditionally associated with RFID, enabling a broad range of new applications that improves accuracy and efficiency in asset tracking, logistics and supply chain management. The company's family of versatile RFID tags works reliably in the harshest environments--including on and off metal and liquids--and excel in real-world proving grounds, demonstrating their value in today's most challenging business applications. With major offices in Foster City, Calif. and in the UK, Omni-ID's mission is to drive the widespread adoption of RFID technology as the optimal tracking and identification solution.

 

Additional Information available on the Omni-ID website: www.Omni-ID.com

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. GS1 standards are the most widely used in the world. GS1 UK helps industry to implement these data standards through the use of bar codes, RFID, Global Data Synchronisation (GDS) and electronic business messaging.

 

GS1 EPCglobal is leading the development of industry-driven standards for the Electronic Product Code (EPC) to support the use of RFID in today's fast-moving, information-rich, trading networks.

Mobile Mark designs and manufactures antennas for 750 MHz - 10 GHz. Applications include: Wi-Fi, W-LAN, WiMAX, Wireless Video, GPS, RFID, DSRC and Voice/Data (GSM, DCS-1800).

 

Products include a Patch Antenna for RFID applications, which is a small compact antenna with 5.5 dBi gain.

 

Their is also a 10dBi gain Panel Antenna. Which is useful for longer range systems. With a narrower beamwidth, it can be effective in reducing interference issues. If a lower profile antenna is required there is also a 7dBi gain model available.

 

Mobile Mark's Dual Polarity antennas can be used for fork-lift or smart shelving applications, conveyor applications and other near to mid-field uses.

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.

Toyo Ink is a Japanese based company, working for over 100 years for the printing ink industry. Thanks to our huge experience in the market, we have developed the Conductive Inks for various printed processes. These inks will provide you with the solution for various Printed Electronics applications and we are pleased to make ourselves available to respond to any requests at the show.

 

In addition to the Inks, we will also be introducing our Adhesives for Industrial Applications.

 

REXALPHA (Ag-based Solvent or UV Ink for Screen, Flexo, Gravure)

 

LIOMETAL (Ag Nano Ink Jet Ink)

 

DYNAGRAND (Adhesives for Industrial Applications)

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.

UKDL is the home of Plastic Electronics including the materials and processes pertinent to RFID. We aim to strengthen the sector and increase members' profits through training and facilitating collaboration. We stimulate innovation in this key technology area by promoting collaboration, best practice and knowledge sharing between industry and academia. We encourage partnerships and teamwork by supporting our members from the science base throughindustry to end-users.

 

UKDL organises seminars, tutorials and workshops covering the disparate range of members' activities. The KTN provides regular opportunities for networking and gives a coherent voice to government policy makers.