RFID Excellence in Business Awards Recognize Innovation, Vision, Environmental GuardianshipGala Award Ceremony Marks Opening Day of TechInsights' RFID World 2008 EventPRNewswire LAS VEGAS, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- TechInsights and RFID Revolution announced the winners of the second annual RFID Excellence in Business Awards at a formal ceremony on the opening day of the RFID World 2008 event at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The awards recognize companies and innovators whose products or implementations demonstrate the benefits of RFID (radio frequency identification) technology. "We were pleased to receive more than 60 application submissions this year from companies, hospitals and U.S. federal, state, and local governments," said Leslie Downey, Principal, RFID Revolution. "Our panel of independent judges was very impressed with the quality of the submissions. The winners demonstrated diverse benefits of RFID such maximizing produce purity and freshness, increasing transportation efficiency and helping the seeing-impaired identify objects in their surroundings."
The 2008 Award categories and winners are:
Excellence in RFID Implementation
Winners: Office of the Product Manager - Joint Automatic Identification,
U.S. Department of Defense and Savi Technology
Project: U.S. Department of Defense Radio Frequency In-Transit Visibility
Network
Excellence in RFID Pilot
Winner: Kimberly-Clark
Project: RTLS-Enabled Yard Management System
Excellence in RFID Technology
Winner: Sensormatic, a Tyco International Company
Project: Sensormatic® iREAD™ Platform (iREAD) for Item Level Retail
RFID Visionary of the Year
Winner: Victor Vega, Director, IC & Tag Product Marketing, Alien
Technology
Most Innovative RFID Application
Winner: SkyeTek Inc.
Project: Gaishan Technology Leverages SkyeTek's Secure RFID Reader
Technology to Assist the Seeing-Impaired
Protecting the Environment
Winner: Hawaii State Department of Agriculture
Project: Food safety through an RFID Food Traceability System
Judges for the 2008 RFID Excellence in Business Awards were:
-- Laurie Sullivan, Editor, RFID World Online -- Lead Judge
-- Dr. Dan Dobkin, Proprietor, Enigmatics
-- Ann Grackin, CEO, ChainLink Research
-- Sue Hutchinson, Director of Industry Adoption, EPCglobal North America
-- Sandip Lahiri, IT Architect, IBM Software Group, IBM
-- Doug Martin, Consultant, RFID Applications
-- Greg Matula, Program Manager, RFID Operations, Hewlett-Packard
-- Dan Mullen, President, AIM Global (Association for Automatic
Identification & Mobility)
More information about the winners and applicants will be available at http://www.rfidawards08.com/ the week of September 15. About RFID World (http://www.rfid-world.com/2008) RFID World is the leading industry event where buyers and sellers of advanced track & trace solutions meet to discover new technologies and applications, as well as share ideas and network with industry innovators from around the globe. About TechInsights (http://www.techinsights.com/) TechInsights is the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers -- the Creators of Technology -- that define, develop, and bring to market the electronic products that improve our lives. With global market leading brands such as EE Times, Semiconductor Insights, TechOnline, Embedded Systems Conferences and Portelligent, TechInsights is the leading dedicated information and services business serving the worldwide electronics market. For more information, please visit http://www.techinsights.com/. TechInsights is a division of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion. About RFID Revolution Based in the Washington, DC, area, RFID Revolution, LLC provides radio frequency identification (RFID) education and market strategy consulting services. Its state-of-the-art, Internet-based learning tool, RFID Essentials, provides professionals in end-user companies with comprehensive RFID working knowledge, quickly and economically. In hours, project team members can acquire the ability and readiness to help accelerate their company's RFID initiative and return on investment. To learn more, please visit http://www.rfidrevolution.com/ or call 301-589-9791.
Media Contacts:
Leslie Downey
RFID Revolution
301-589-9791
RFIDAwards@rfidrevolution.com
RFID World Event Contacts:
Tim Downs Amy Giannini
Managing Director Event Marketing Manager
949-235-8985 415-947-6626
agiannini@techinsights.com
Media Contact:
Lynda Kaye
Mango Communications
650-799-2888
lynda@mangocommunications.com
SOURCE: TechInsights CONTACT: Leslie Downey of RFID Revolution, +1-301-589-9791, Web site: http://www.techinsights.com/ |