Mojix Upgrades Product Line, Offers Demo in 3-D

The third product Mojix is rolling out—a real-time location system (RTLS) software module known as eLocation—utilizes proprietary formulas to ascertain the locations of passive EPC Gen 2 tags in three dimensions. In April, Mojix announced that its system could be used to determine a tag's location in three dimensions (see Mojix Takes Passive UHF RFID to a New Level, but until eLocation's launch, Sadr says, such a capability was not achievable.

During EPC Connection, Mojix presented a demonstration of the RTLS functionality, showing the location of an EPC tag on a live computer feed while Kevin Duffy, Mojix's senior VP, moved around a conference room. The company set up the software to filter out all but the single tag used in the display, but contends that the software could determine the locations of thousands of tags within a read zone simultaneously.

Though unable to name the beta testers of these new Mojix products, Sadr did say they are mostly outside of the consumer retail supply chain, and mentioned that strong interest in the Mojix product is presently coming from the energy sector and industrial manufacturers, for use in asset-tracking applications. In April, a number of CPG firms announced testing they had performed with early Mojix readers, but most were focused on product rather than asset tracking (see New RFID Technology Helps Kraft, P&G, Kimberly-Clark Go the Distance).

In addition, Mojix announced that IBM has developed an interface enabling tag location data collected and processed by eLocation to be forwarded to the IBM WebSphere Premises Server program. Within the IBM program, business logic can be applied to the location data, and used to perform such functions as alerting an end user if a particular tag or population of tags is placed in the wrong location, or, for instance, if it dwells in a specific spot for too long.

The new products are currently being beta-tested, and are slated to become available in early 2009. Pricing has not yet been released.