Powering Temperature Sensors with High Frequency RFID: passive and datalogging (Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2010)

Terry Rachwalski, MBA, CMC: A certified management consultant and speaker on technology marketing and social media, Terry Rachwalski leads the product and partner development group at Proxima RF Technology Corporation. Previous experience includes executive level positions with fiber optic telecom equipment and sensor firms plus business development consulting for a number of active and passive RFID companies.

Proxima RF™ has created the next generation of affordable proximity temperature sensing and ID devices for the cold chain and logistics industry. Our HF RFID readers are optimized to work with our suite of passive, energy harvesting temperature sensor tags, wireless dataloggers and sensor probes used where the water content in food stuffs present difficulty for other RFID technology. Proxima RF enables system integrators to create user-friendly proximity sensing solutions with ready-to-ship readers, supporting API, optional hosted data-trending software, OEM designs and sensor tag modules.