Alien Technology Announces Support for Savi Protocol
September 25, 2002—Savi Technology (Sunnyvale, CA), a manufacturer of real-time solutions for global supply chain security and asset management, and Alien Technology (www.alientechnology.com), a California-based maker of RFID tags and hardware, have announced that Alien has agreed to support Savi's Universal Data Appliance Protocol (UDAP). According to Savi, this agreement affords customers seeking cost-effective RFID solutions in supply chain and logistics applications the opportunity to easily integrate Alien RFID hardware, using the openly licensed protocol UDAP to link information from automated data collection devices to the Web-based Savi SmartChain software platform.
The joint announcement was made this week at the Frontline Solutions Expo in Chicago, where Alien also unveiled a low-cost RFID tag and reader system. Alien becomes the 20th partner in the UDAP Interoperability Alliance, which now encompasses a wide range of wireless collection and identification technologies, ranging from providers of sensor technologies and bar codes to RFID and GPS systems.
Other members of the UDAP Interoperability Alliance partners include 3M, Matrics Inc., Checkpoint Systems Inc., RF Code, SCS Corp., Technology Systems International (TSI), VYTEK Corp., Sensormatic, SAMSys, Apexion, Microlise, i-Ray, and others.
Savi and Alien also work together as members of the Auto-ID Center coordinated by MIT and Cambridge University. The center is an industry-sponsored effort to develop an electronic product code that will enable the broad adoption of the next-generation of automatic identification technology for tracking and managing products in the retail supply chain. Its 70+ members include Wal-Mart, Gillette, Proctor and Gamble, UPS, the U.S. Department of Defense, and the Uniform Code Council (UCC).
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