this is interesting as well. i copied it from the stockhouse board.
8/16/00 -
Gains Edge With Tamper Intelligence For Smart Labels
HOMEX - Sydney
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Gains Edge with Tamper-Intelligence for Smart Labels
ASX-listed MIKOH Corporation, which specialises in developing asset
integrity protection products, has achieved a breakthrough for "smart
label" users, including supply chain managers and customs
authorities, with its latest agreements with North American
technology companies SAMSys and Poly-Flex.
"There are a lot of large, global companies interested in
smart-labelling using radio frequency identification (RFID) and our
latest development, the SmartANDSecure(TM) label tamper
identification and tracking process, adds a further dimension to this
leading-edge technology," said MIKOH Managing Director Peter Atherton
today.
He was commenting following the announcement today from Canadian
corporation SAMSys Technologies Inc that it had delivered the first
of a series of reading devices specially designed for use with
MIKOH's unique tamper-intelligent technology.
"RFID is widely expected to be the enabling technology for the next
generation of item management, inventory control, supply chain
management and logistics support systems which at present rely mainly
on barcoding for automated data capture. What we are developing with
our technology partners in the United States is the ability to not
only read a wide range of RFID smart labels but also detect and track
tampering of those labels," he said.
SAMSys last month announced an agreement under which it will develop
and supply multi-frequency, multi protocol (usable with different
label types) readers for use with MIKOH's RFID labels. Subsequently
Poly-Flex Circuits Inc announced that it had entered into an
exclusive manufacturing agreement under which Poly-Flex will produce
RFID label transponders using MIKOH's proprietary tamper-intelligent
SmartANDSecure process, as well as act as a channel distributor.
Poly-Flex is a subsidiary of NASDAQ-listed Parlex Corporation, a
global supplier of flexible interconnects and circuitry to a wide
variety of markets including RFID companies.
"Used in conjunction with a RFID reader, the tamper-intelligent
transponder developed by MIKOH means that if a smart label is even
partially lifted it will not work - the reader will indicate that it
has been tampered with or re-applied to another item," said Dr
Atherton. "A new reader being developed by SAMSys for MIKOH will also
send an alert back to the company concerned if there is any
tampering, and allow tracking."
"This will be immensely valuable for a number of users, including
asset managers, inventory managers, supply chain managers, government
agencies such as customs, and so on."
Dr Atherton said the potential was significant with a number of
multi-national companies interested in using smart labelling.
"There are several factors that should make SmartANDSecure appeal to
the market. It can be read by either a standard reader or, to take
advantage of the tracking capability, the SmartANDSecure reader.
Another important element is that the process does not have to be
linked to any specific RFID brand fruequency."
"All of these attributes mean it will be accessible to a wide range
of users, and attractive to the key RFID manufacturers."
The latest announcement from SAMSys, confirming the delivery of the
first prototype reader under its agreement with MIKOH to produce a
series of proprietary readers, said the company believed that the
development of the SmartANDSecure technology by MIKOH would help
bring to fruition the promise of RFID through the introduction of
mainstream applications.
Contact Details
Dr Peter Atherton
e-mail: peter.atherton@mikohcorp.com
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danny
