RFID Excellence in Business Awards - die Gewinner

abgelegt im Archiv News am 03.04.07

Zugegeben: Die Meldung ist schon ein paar Tage alt. Doch wollte ich meinen LeserInnen die Gewinner des renommierten RFID Excellence in Business Awards dann doch nicht vorenthalten. Dieser Preis wurde vor rund einer Woche auf der führenden RFID-Messe "RFID World 2007" in Texas verliehen und die folgenden Unternehmen und/oder Organisationen konnten in einer der Kategorie gewinnen (die Infos stammen von RFIDupdate):


Kategorie: Excellence in RFID Implementation


Mercy Medical Center (Des Moines, Iowa), WaveMark, and Edwards Lifesciences


The 917-bed Mercy Medical Center hospital installed a high frequency (13.56 MHz) RFID system to track equipment and supplies in its catheterization lab from when they are received and throughout their storage and use.


Kategorie: Excellence in RFID Pilot


Evidencia and Rio Blanco


Blanco is a Chilean avocado grower that used RFID and temperature sensors to help manage cold chain logistics from its fields to the Valparaiso harbor and on to Los Angeles.


Kategorie: Most Innovative RFID Application


The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Texas Instruments


WWF is using RFID tags to track white lipped peccaries (a type of wild pig) in the Amazon as part of a program to protect the species and its habitat. The WWF is conducting a five-year study of peccary behavior.


Kategorie: Excellence in RFID Technology


ADASA


The company makes the PAD3500 tag encoder, an extremely slim handheld device that can encode RFID smart labels, eliminating the need for a printer/encoder.


Kategorie: RFID Visionary of the Year


Dr. Chris Diorio of Impinj


Diorio, Impinj's co-founder and chief technical officer, is also an associate professor at the University of Washington and served as co-chair of EPCglobal's Hardware Action Group. Diorio was honored for his technical contributions to the EPC Gen2 standard, leadership in guiding representatives from 43 companies involved in the standard development, market education and development efforts around Gen2 and the use of near-field UHF for item-level tagging, and for driving Impinj's own Gen2 technology and market leadership.


Ich bin sicher, dass wir in den nächsten Monaten und Jahren noch mehr und detaillierter über die einzelnen Projekte berichten werden.