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IMPINJ IN THE NEWS (2008)

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Intros RFID Portals That Detect Tag Direction

M/A-COM Technology has announced floor-mounted RFID portals that can determine the direction of travel of passive UHF RFID-tagged items. The direction of travel (DOT) RFID portals are designed to help companies know which way their tagged goods are moving; for example, whether a pallet is moving into or out of a warehouse, or when cases are moving from the back of store rooms onto store floors.

December 25, 2008

Motorola, Impinj, AIM Global and Others Look into 2009

AIM Global continues to see a significant trend toward the convergence of auto-ID to support enterprise and consumer applications, according to Dan Mullen, president of the industry trade group

December 22, 2008

S3Edge Ushers in New Generation of RFID 2.0 Apps with Microsoft's Release of BizTalk RFID Mobile

Deployed at multiple early adopter sites, solutions enabled by S3Edge are helping customers rapidly go from design to deployment in a scalable manner and deliver new levels of service in addition to transforming their existing business processes.

December 9, 2008

Clothing Designer Brings RFID to Its Shoppers

At its store in Hollola, Finland, women's clothing designer Naisten Pukutehdas (NP) has extended its RFID system to the sales floor, creating what it hopes to be a smart store.

December 5, 2008

ID World Confirms its Unrivaled Position

This year’s ID WORLD Conference, held in Milan from November 18 to 20, was characterized by the outstanding caliber of both speakers and audience. 56 Presidents and CEOs took the stage at the event, presenting their vision and offering thought-leadership to the international ID community.

December 4, 2008

Indian Retailer ITC Focuses on RFID Expansion

ITC Ltd., an Indian retailer that reported more than $5 billion in revenue in 2007 and employs more than 29,000 workers in 20 countries, is tracking clothes and accessories from production to the point of sale.

November 14, 2008

CHEP Tracks Auto-part Containers in Europe

CHEP, a pallet and container pooling services company owned by Australia-based Brambles, is running an RFID-based application that tracks returnable containers for the automotive industry at its facilities in countries across Europe.

November 11, 2008

Finnish store deploys RFID across supply chain

A new clothing store opened by Finnish apparel company NP Collection utilizes RFID technology throughout the store.

November 10, 2008

To Satisfy RFID Mandates, Normerica Uses Boxes with Embedded Tags

Normerica, a provider of cat litter and other products for pet dogs and cats, is among the first to use cardboard boxes with UHF Gen 2 RFID inlays embedded in them.

October 31, 2008

Ship2Save and Krupack automate RFID smart-box encoding for one of North America's largest Kitty Litter producers

Normerica Inc. successfully “encodes & ships” its pet products destined for Wal-Mart with Ship2Save’s innovative commissioning station system and Krupack’s HIDE-Pack™ boxes.

October 27, 2008

Magma Software Enables Impinj to Reduce Turnaround Time by 200 Percent, Power by 30 Percent, and Area by 25 Percent on RFID ICs

Magma Design Automation Inc. announced that Impinj has standardized on Magma's IC implementation software, dramatically reducing turnaround time, power and area.

October 13, 2008

Align RFID Tags with Business Requirements

Enterprises have plenty of RFID (radio frequency identification) tag options. But, choosing the right tag starts with the application itself.

October 13, 2008

Pharma RFID Takes a Healthcare Direction

Recent RFID World, and upcoming events signal that healthcare applications may take precendence over supply chain security in pharma RFID.

September 30, 2008

Deloitte WA State Technology Fast 50: Impinj Inc.'s RFID technology propels future of scanning

Impinj finished 7th in Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 program for Washington State, attributing success to technical innovation.

September 26, 2008

Purdue Pharma States its Case for RFID

Mike Celentano, associate director of supply chain systems and RFID for Stamford, CT-based Purdue Pharma spoke in a presentation at the recent Brand-Protection Packaging Forum. Celentano and Aaron Graham, Purdue Pharma’s chief security officer, delivered a co-presentation, “The Case for RFID: Is it an Authentication Solution or a Track-And-Trace Tool?”

August 15, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Jim Donaldson
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Impinj, Inc.
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