Mar 22, 2018The following are news announcements made during the past week by the following organizations:
Xerafy;
Tönnjes E.A.S.T.;
Jadak;
WellAware, Amazon Web Services, CheckPoint Pumps & Systems; and
Senseon Secure Access.
Xerafy Issues End of Life Notification for Bric and Pico Wedge RFID Tags, Joins 2018 Accelerating Entrepreneurs Program
Xerafy has announced that it has planned an End of Life (EOL) for its Bric and Pico Wedge RFID tags. Designed to be mounted on or embedded in concrete for construction and building materials, the Bric tag is suitable for extreme RFID applications. The Pico Wedge, meanwhile, is designed to protect the chip, and to facilitate quick embedding of metal RFID tags in industrial applications.
The company will continue to sell these products for up to six months after the EOL notice. The two products will be available on a case-by-case basis for qualified opportunities of significant volume.
To minimize inconvenience, Xerafy plans to work with customers to provide any necessary assistance. Those who require further information may contact a Xerafy sales representative or email sales@xerafy.com for more information or advice on alternative RFID tag solutions.
In addition, the company has announced that its founder and CEO, Dennis Khoo, has been selected to take part in the Ernst & Young (EY) Accelerating Entrepreneurs program, which is designed to support innovative companies through the journey toward becoming global market leaders.
Khoo is among 30 entrepreneurs taking part in the program. According to EY, participants were selected based on their potential to grow globally, solve real-world problems and deliver innovative solutions. The program will nurture businesses and provide them with practices and support for growth.
"I am looking forward to experience the Accelerating Entrepreneurs program in Amsterdam and meet the game-changing cohort of high-growth entrepreneurs from 15 countries around the world," Khoo said in a prepared statement. "EY has recognized Xerafy's unique contributions to the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence, as our technology enables automated data capture in the harshest industrial environments. The disruption is nowhere clearer than in the healthcare market, where our automated management system for surgical instruments comes in support of increased compliance, patient safety and operating efficiency in the hospital workflow."
Tönnjes E.A.S.T. to Present Electronic Vehicle Identification Products in Amsterdam
German company Tönnjes E.A.S.T. presented its latest electronic vehicle identification (EVI) products at the Intertraffic Trade Fair, held this week in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The firm's solutions include its IDePLATE RFID license plate, IDeSTIX RFID windscreen sticker and IDeTRUST software.
The company's modular security systems are already being used in several countries, including Honduras, the Philippines, Kenya, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, where they are successfully protecting vehicles, registration documents and license plates against manipulation, forgery and theft. This RFID technology, with a UCODE DNA chip, allows the electronic, contactless and encrypted identification of vehicles in still and moving traffic.
"Intertraffic is always an exciting trade fair for us," said Dietmar Mönning, the firm's managing director, in a prepared statement, "because many of our joint venture partners and associates also attend and share interesting news and developments."
Tönnjes E.A.S.T. develops digital license plates and safety features for vehicles, and also tailored facilities and machinery for the production of license plates. At the end of last year, the company was commissioned by the Italian Government Printing Institute, the Institutio Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS), to carry out a fully automated production of license plates. Starting in late 2018, around six million license plates will be manufactured annually at a new plant near Turin.
"We'd like to use this example to tell people at the trade fair what Industry 4.0 could mean for the production of license plates," Mönning said in the prepared statement. "That's how we've managed to establish ourselves in many countries. Intertraffic is the most important traffic and transport exhibition in Europe, so it's the perfect opportunity to meet and discuss things in one place."
Jadak Unveils Fixed-Mount Bar-Code Reader
Jadak has announced the FM-5E, the latest product in its line of fixed-mount bar-code imagers. The FM-5E, according to the company, is suitable for integration into OEM devices and kiosks. The compact FM-5E is an image-based sensor that reads all linear (1D) and matrix (2D) bar codes.
Available with RS-232 or USB host interfaces, the FM-5E can read standard, label-based bar codes, as well as those directly from cell phone screens. Its small form factor allows easy integration into OEM devices, the company reports. The device's bar-code scanning capability makes it suitable for use in kiosks.
Jadak, a business unit of Novanta, provides machine vision, RFID, bar codes, printing, and color and light measurement products and services for original equipment manufacturers. The company designs and manufactures embedded detection and analysis solutions that help customers solve inspection, tracking, scanning and documenting challenges.
WellAware Partners With Amazon Web Services on Oil and Gas IIoT Platform, and With CheckPoint Pumps & Systems on IoT Pump-Monitoring System
WellAware, a full-stack Internet of Things (IoT) solution for oilfield monitoring and optimization, has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services. The joint effort provides oil and gas operators and service providers with data security and reliability on WellAware's industrial IoT platform, in order to reduce operating costs and asset downtime by automating and optimizing oilfield production.
WellAware's full-stack IoT solution, which includes all the required hardware, network and software, provides data collection, exception-based monitoring and actionable analytics. Built using AWS' global cloud infrastructure, the platform is intended to keep data safe, meet compliance requirements and scale quickly.
Additionally, WellAware and CheckPoint Pumps & Systems (CheckPoint), a provider of chemical-injection solutions, announced a product partnership to offer complete pump rate monitoring and control for CheckPoint's line of pumps.
CheckPoint offers remote pump rate monitoring and control, powered by WellAware, for its line of pumps. Through this Industrial Internet of Things solution, CheckPoint's customers can remotely monitor tank levels and pump rates from their Web browser or WellAware's native iOS and Android application.
Configurable alarms identify issues that occur, enabling technicians to manage by exception and prioritize their time where it is needed most. Role-based dashboards and custom reports allow users to monitor usage and correlate chemical-injection rates with production rates, and all data can be integrated into the operators' SCADA and historian systems for future analysis.
Pump rates can be controlled via three different modes: target volume, proportional control (based on inputs such as pipeline flow meters or H2S analyzers), and closed loop control, which utilizes a chemical flow meter to directly measure injection volume.
CheckPoint's variable speed pumps help to reduce operating costs and improve production levels with continuous injection.
Unlike single-speed or timed pump solutions, variable speed pumps run continuously at an even rate of speed to achieve a target flow rate and offer infinite adjustment throughout the full range of the pump. More precise chemical injection results in significant reductions in production fluctuation and an increase in average production.
Senseon Secure Access to Demo RFID Locking System for Retailers
Senseon Secure Access has announced that it will demonstrate and discuss its RFID-based electronic locking solution for retail environments at next week's GlobalShop 2018 event in Chicago. Senseon, from Accuride International, was a winner in last year's GlobalShop Product Design Competition.
"Our keyless system uses proprietary technology to help retailers protect high-end merchandise, such as jewelry or consumer electronics, while improving the customer experience, design and efficiency," said Daniel Rodriguez, Senseon's national sales manager, in a prepared statement. "In addition to showing our current Senseon system, we will be sharing information on new features we plan to introduce this fall, including audit trails, alarms and discretionary access."
Keyless and hidden inside cabinets, the RFID-powered Senseon system can be integrated with new or existing cabinetry and casework, as well as with other access-control systems. It provides four times the strength of conventional locks, the company claims, and makes merchandise readily available to authorized employees, enabling them to remain on the sales floor with customers.
The system features an absence of keyholes, visible locks or key rings. Other features suitable for retail include auto-relock, auto-open and hands-free touch-release.
