RFID Smart labels USA 2008

Hot RFID Sectors, Full Technology Analysis, Market Insight

Sponsors and Exhibitors:

Gold Sponsor

Alien Technology
Founded in 1994, Alien Technology is a passive RFID industry pioneer and leading provider of high-quality RFID innovations, technologies and products. Alien solves the Identification of Things™ (IoT) through the provision of UHF passive RFID transceiver chips, tags, inlays & labels, fixed & mobile readers and a full range of related professional services. These solutions are implemented in industries such as consumer packaged goods, retail apparel, manufacturing, transportation, airports and cargo logistics, government and defense and more. Alien's facilities include corporate headquarters in San Jose, CA; the Alien RFID Solutions Center in the Dayton, OH region; and sales offices in Brazil, China, Italy and Singapore.
 

Silver Sponsors

AwarePoint
Awarepoint's Active RFID technologies and real time location systems (RTLSs) include its real time awareness platform, firmware, RFID tags, sensors, and bridges. Awarepoint's technologies collect raw sensor data and transform that data into high-value positioning information that can be used to add location awareness to a variety of healthcare, manufacturing, security and other applications. Requiring no hard wiring, Awarepoint's "plug and track" network is a fully managed service, including hardware, software, remote monitoring and maintenance, offering the only truly practical, enterprise-wide RTLS technology solution on the market today. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California and serves clients across the United States through a national sales and operations workforce.
 
bielomatik
bielomatik, a pioneer in RFID technology, is considered the leader in field-proven high production UHF / HF converting and qualification machines. Lowest cost and highest quality per unit are the distinguishing features of bielomatik's solutions for the production of Smart Labels, Tags and Tickets. The building blocks of our line of machines are interchangeable modules, which accommodate changes required by customer demand and evolving technology. bielomatik in partnership with NXP, recently introduced the RF-LoopTag program. RF-LoopTag enables converters to produce their own UHF inlays reliably and economically in order to accelerate the widespread use of RFID.
 
Delo
We are a manufacture of high-tech adhesives, but we go a step further: we provide our customers a comprehensive service - helping them to make their processes more efficient to give them an edge over their competitors. Our engineers take all factors into consideration, from the physical constraints of the production line to the requirements on the final product.
 
Inksure
InkSure Technologies Inc., with its corporate headquarters in the U.S. and its R&D center in Rehovot, Israel, specializes in comprehensive, covert security solutions designed to protect high profile brands and documents of value from counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. The Company's sales and marketing activities target a number of market opportunities, including financial, pharmaceutical, branded products, transportation, and government/institutional, on a global scale. The Company's R&D activities include the development of, SARcode, a "chipless" RFID technology for affordable item-level secure logistics and track-and-trace applications.
 
Motorola
 
 
Muehlbauer
Mühlbauer is a global leader for the supply of highly efficient production technologies for the smart card, ePassport, semiconductor and RFID industries. With currently more than 80,000 systems in the market, Mühlbauer has the best proven reputation and performance history in these market segments. As an owner-driven and German-based company, the fulfillment of our clients' needs is not only our first priority, but also our greatest motivation. With more than 30 locations and service hubs we guarantee excellent local support and customer care.
 
PowerID
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.
 
Stork Prints BV
Stork Prints Group is the leading provider of system and application know-how in textile and graphics printing processes as well as 2-dimensional, high accuracy, metal precision products.
 
TagSense
Ashametrics designs, manufactures, and sells OEM software and hardware solutions for mobile health. Products include a variety of mobile phone applications that support a variety of biomedical and consumer devices for health monitoring and disease management , such as glucose meters, blood pressure cuffs, weight scales, and supports integration of health data to online medical record systems such as Google Health. Ashametrics emerged as a spin-off company of TagSense, a manufacturer of wireless sensor hardware.
 
TAGSYS EUROPE
TAGSYS is the global leader in item-level RFID infrastructure. TAGSYS provides RFID systems and tags for end-to-end item-level tracking that automates labor-intensive processes, authenticates and safeguards goods, and enables real-time inventory and asset visibility. With a proven track record of delivering Reliable, Accurate and Secure (R.A.S.) RFID systems and tags, TAGSYS has deployed over 100 million tags and 60,000 reader systems to over 500 customers in more than 40 countries. TAGSYS' RFID solutions are currently being deployed in a range of highly specialized vertical markets that include pharmaceutical, fashion apparel, libraries, and textile rental. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with offices and R&D Centers in France, in Doylestown, Pennsylvania and in Hong Kong. More information on TAGSYS can be found on their website.
 

Bronze Sponsors

Cymbet Corporation
Cymbet Corporation—a green technology company—is a leader in thin-film, solid-state storage devices and energy harvesting technology. The company is the first to market a component-class energy solution that designers can use to realize new embedded systems capabilities. Cymbet's EnerChip thin-film devices enable innovative energy storage applications for integrated circuits and new products for process control, medical, sensor, RFID, communications, consumer and portable electronic devices.
 
Datacon
Datacon, the world's leading supplier of advanced-packaging equipment, is first source for high capability chip assembly equipment for RFID inlay manufacturing. With a small die capability down to 0.3 mm flip chip and a placement accuracy of 15µm@3 sigma the big number of installed Datacon RFID chip assembly lines are already capable to handle smallest chip sizes which will become standard in the next couple of years. As a pioneer who introduced high speed dot dispensing technology up to 10,000 dots per hour for chip-on-web attach Datacon has set the challenging benchmark for the best in class total cost of ownership. Based on the TTT-program ("Triple-T") Datacon offers total solutions for RFID inlay/tag manufacturing.
 
Enfucell Oy
Enfucell is a leading customized battery supplier to printed electronics industry. The company has developed a printable, thin, flexible and eco-friendly SoftBattery®, which can be used as a power source in various Internet of Things and wearable electronics products and applications. Find out more at http://www.enfucell.com.
 
Hanita Coatings
For 25 years, Hanita Coatings has specialized in the coating, metallizing and laminating of PET films for applications ranging from label face stock to solar control films. Hanita's newly created Flexible Electronics Division has established itself as the one of the leading providers of copper RFID tag antennas to transponder manufacturers worldwide, delivering low-cost, high-performance antennas manufactured by a proprietary semi-additive process.
 
IDTechEx
IDTechEx provides independent market research, business intelligence and events on emerging technologies to companies across the value chain. Our clients use our insights to help make strategic business decisions and grow their organizations.
 
IDTechEx business and technology experts provide international perspective in a diverse range of emerging technologies including 3D printing, electric vehicles, energy harvesting, energy storage, life sciences, printed electronics, IoT and many other topics.
 
IDTechEx is headquartered in Cambridge, UK with additional offices in USA, Germany and Japan and associates in South Korea.
 
Martin Automatic Inc.
At Martin Automatic Inc, our experience in handling webs--substrates delivered as roll stock--spans a broad range of converting and deposition processes. We provide high performance splicing, rewinding and tension control systems for a variety of industries and applications, including those associated with the manufacturing of printed electronics, thin film photovoltaics, and energy harvesting and storage.
 
Meco
Meco Equipment Engineers B.V. (member of the BESI group) is a leading equipment supplier of plating systems for the semiconductor, connector and film & foil industry.
 
Meco's new development, the Flex Antenna Plating system (Meco FAP) is the solution for tomorrow's low cost antenna production where high volume, product flexibility and process robustness become key!
 
Over the years, the Meco systems have established an international reputation for high performance, outstanding reliability, top quality and unbeatable economy.
 
ODIN technologies
ODIN technologies is the leader in the physics of RFID solution design, deployment, research and optimization software. RFID is all we do. Global corporations on five continents leverage ODIN technologies' expert engineers and patented RFID optimization tools to achieve accuracy, speed and visibility for their RFID deployments. In addition to client deployment services, ODIN technologies is also the publisher of the RFID Benchmark Series™, the industry's first and most referenced head to head performance analysis of RFID equipment. ODIN's RFID optimization software suite EasyRFID™ has been successfully used in dozens of sites to ensure accurate RFID implementations. ODIN's founder, Patrick J. Sweeney II, is also the author of RFID for Dummies published by John Wiley & Sons and Wiley's CompTIA RFID+ study guide. ODIN serves clients from offices in Dulles, Virginia, USA, Tokyo, Japan and Budapest, Hungary.
 
Omnitrol Networks
Omnitrol Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of converged service-oriented application network solutions for the emerging wireless, RFID and sensor automation market. The company's award-winning OMNITROL appliance and Edge Application and Services Engine (EASE™) software have pioneered the market for "Always On" real-time web-based operational visibility and automation solutions. The OMNITROL's unique edge-centric solution architecture offers the industry's most flexible and reliable means to deploy scalable application intelligent networks at the lowest total cost of ownership in the market. Omnitrol Networks is a privately held company with corporate headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. Additional information about Omnitrol Networks' products and services are available on our website.
 
PolyIC
PolyIC develops and markets products based on the platform technology printed electronics: In the course of this PolyIC offers products from the field "Touch Sensors & Passive Devices".
 
"Touch Sensors & Passive Devices"
Touch sensors based on the PolyTC® technology offer transparent, conductive and flexible possibilities for touch screens and capacitive keys in any variants. Furthermore, this technology enables the setup of flexible circuit structures as passive devices for a huge variety of further applications. The highlight is the possibility to combine decoration and function to achieve a maximum of design flexibility.
 
Printed Electronics World
Printed Electronics World provides you with a daily update of the latest industry developments. Running for over 10 years this free portal covers the progress to printed electronics in all its forms - from transistor circuits to power, sensors, displays, materials and manufacturing.
 
Hosted and written by IDTechEx, the leading printed electronics analyst and event organiser, articles provide commentary, analysis and give a balanced view of the issue. You can opt-in for an email to be sent to you every Wednesday listing the new articles posted in the previous week. We aim to make this service your most valuable tool for keeping up to date with the printed electronics industry.
 
Soligie
Soligie utilizes high speed, roll-to-roll manufacturing to produce printed electronics with a variety of conductive, resistive and proprietary materials on flexible substrates such as PET, paper and foil. Soligie offers a full range of services including: concept design, circuit design, design for manufacturability and final volume production. We combine emergent materials with proprietary manufacturing processes and produce electrical components such as memory, sensors, displays and batteries for integration onto thin, flexible substrates. Soligie currently serves the military, medical device, smart packaging, RFID and flexible interconnect markets.
 
Sun Chemical
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. 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.
 
Teslin
Teslin® sheet, produced by PPG Industries, is a silica-filled porous substrate used in global e-passport inlays, contactless SMART cards, RFID cards and labels, security and identification documents, healthcare cards, and specialty graphic printing. Teslin sheet prints as easily as paper, but provides the durability of plastic - exhibiting a broad thermal flexibility range, and resisting tearing, abrasion, and chemical attack. It provides tamper-resistant / tamper-evident adhesive bonds, electrostatic dissipation, prolonged contactless IC card service life, digital print capability, and consistent high-quality print image. In high-security applications, customer-specific covert and forensic security features can be incorporated into the Teslin sheet during production making them less susceptible to counterfeiting or alteration.
 
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