Impinj in the News

Demystifying UHF Gen 2 RFID, HF RFID

If you're considering HF RFID technologies rather than UHF Gen 2, the first question is why? UHF Gen 2 now performs equally well on small, individual items traveling along high-speed manufacturing lines as it does on pallets of cased goods....

June 2, 2008

Italian RFID Lab Get Fashion-Forward

The University of Parma facility is working with a number of clothing and accessory manufacturers and retailers to stich together the business benefits of RFID technology.

August 13, 2008

A Solution That Fits

A look at how a leading fashion retailer is using UHF RFID not only across a broad scope of business processes spanning the distribution center to the retail floor, but also to enhance the customer's shopping experience

July 2008

RFID the vegetable tracking sleuth

A look at how RFID provides ROI in the fresh food industry in the form of significantly diminished food safety issues, more efficient workforce operations, fewer supply chain bottlenecks, and consistently fresh produce

July 2008

Impinj Buys Intel's RFID Business, Cements Leadership

Impinj announces a bold strategic move that could elevate the company from its current status as one of a small handful of industry leaders, to a new level that is unique in the RFID space.

July 10, 2008

Intel Sells RFID Business to Seattle Company

Impinj expects that the deal will allow it to address a broader market, namely that of handheld, mobile RFID readers. That's because the company will be able to sell chips that include most of the functionality required for a reader radio, allowing developers to build small form-factor devices.

July 10, 2008

Item-Level RFID Prevents Meat Spoilage for METRO

An RFID system, using Impinj RFID, developed to ensure meat safety and freshness is one of the technology highlights at the new Metro real-Future Store.

June 10, 2008

At Metro's New Future Store, RFID Helps Assure Meat Quality

The Metro Group's new real-Future Store in Toenisvorst, Germany is piloting Impinj RFID technology to help track fresh meat in its "Master Butchery" department, and at checkout counters.

June 3, 2008

Gen 2 Tags Track Runner, Motorcycle Speeds

Two new systems allow runners and motorcycle racers to track their finish times with Impinj Speedway Readers and passive EPC Gen 2 RFID tags

May 1, 2008

Sophisticated Item-Level RFID Pilot Underway at German Department Store

RFID solution providers Impinj, Checkpoint, and Reva Systems teamed to orchestrate an RFID-based shopping services pilot for Galeria Kaufhof, a division of Metro Group which is now a breakthrough item-level tagging retail apparel implementation.

April 23, 2008

Impinj Rolls 'Few-Time' Memory IP

Impinj introduced a ''few-time'' programmable logic nonvolatile memory solution. Aimed at applications that require up to 100 write-erase cycles, Aeon/FTP is said to be a hybrid between a one-time and a multiple-time programmable memory IP.

April 21, 2008

New RFID Chip Promises Major Performance Gains

RFID chip and reader manufacturer Impinj today announced version 3 of Monza, the RFID chip that powers the majority of Gen2 tags deployed in the market today.

March 27, 2008

Impinj Announces Next-Gen Monza Chip

The new Monza 3, the chipmaker says, offers a read range as much as 40 percent longer than that of other EPC Gen 2 RFID chips.

March 27, 2008

RFID Interrogators Grow Up

Advancements in tag direction detection and tag distance calculation should improve data collection and asset tracking.

February, 2008

Impinj Speedway Readers Certified to Operate in China

RFID equipment provider Impinj has announced that its Speedway ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) RFID interrogator was awarded certification by China's State Radio Regulation Committee (SRRC).

February 19, 2008