SAMSys Announces Its Selection as RFID Reader Provider for METRO Group's Future Store
SAMSys will participate in the RFID Solutions Team for the METRO Group's
RFID Supply Chain Rollout, which begins in November, 2004
TORONTO, July 7 /CNW/ - SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SMY: TSX), an
international provider of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) hardware
solutions and consulting services today announced its selection and
participation in the METRO Group's RFID Solution Team for its Future Store
Initiative. METRO Group has selected various RFID partners which will be
involved with hardware, software, integration and installation services
relative to its previously announced mandate for its top suppliers to begin
shipping cases and pallets to METRO Group's selected distribution centers and
outlets by November of this year. SAMSys will immediately begin the
manufacturing of the anticipated requirements for this rollout, and has
already integrated its readers into the METRO Group's RFID Innovation Center
located in Neuss, Germany, where it will present its solutions to its top
suppliers from today onwards.
"We are thrilled to have been selected as a reader solution for this
industry advancing initiative," stated Cliff Horwitz, chairman and chief
executive officer of SAMSys. "We have been working with the METRO Group for
quite some time and have provided training, consulting and testing of our EPC
reader technology as they have explored many alternatives. Clearly, the
solution works and it now moves the process forward - from "planning" to
"implementation". It is indeed a very exciting time for the RFID industry, as
a whole, as we begin to witness the progression from limited pilot projects to
scaled deployment."
SAMSys joins other RFID hardware and software companies as a partner on a
team that will bring about the reality of RFID for METRO Group. Other such
selected companies include among others Philips Semiconductors, IBM,
Checkpoint, Avery Dennison, Intermec and UPM Rafsec. This team will meet
regularly with the project management team of METRO Group in order to meet the
timetables and guidelines for this November implementation.
"We are pleased to have SAMSys on the RFID Solutions Team" stated Dr.
Gerd Wolfram, Executive Project Manager of the METRO Group Future Store
Initiative. "We require a reader that will handle the demands of a portals
installation, and complies with both the current and future ETSI European RF
standards. The SAMSys reader has demonstrated all these to our satisfaction,
allowing us to move forward with our RFID plans."
SAMSys will provide METRO Group its MP9329 V2.7 reader, which operates as
an agile multi-frequency, multi-protocol UHF reader and is approved for
frequency and power settings in both the United States and Europe. It will be
deployed with the Philips Semiconductor EPC 1.19 chip-based tag, as selected
by METRO Group. SAMSys is the originator of the agile multi-frequency, multi-
protocol and multi-regional UHF reader architecture, which is fast becoming
accepted as the standard for supply chain solutions. It operates company-owned
sales offices out of Ontario, Canada; North Carolina, USA; and the United
Kingdom. |
