SAMSys Extends Microsoft Relationship with Support for Microsoft's New RFID Infrastructure
SAMSys Readers to be Used for Demos at Microsoft Tech-Ed 2005 Europe
TORONTO, July 5 /CNW/ - SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SMY: TSX), an
international provider of Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) hardware
solutions, today announced that all of its RFID UHF readers support the RFID
Infrastructure that Microsoft unveiled last month to simplify integration and
deployment of RFID solutions. The support ensures that SAMSys readers will be
able to exchange data with Microsoft software, including critical RFID tag
information that can be used to track and analyze the movement of products
throughout the supply chain, when the Microsoft technology becomes available.
SAMSys has been involved with Microsoft's RFID initiative for 18 months
and participated in two Microsoft RFID projects designed to showcase early
versions of the middleware. As part of those projects with KiMs, the leading
Danish snack food company, and Link Snacks, Inc., the world leader in meat
snacks and producer of Jack Link's(R) Beef Jerky, SAMSys delivered the first
production RFID readers capable of communicating with Microsoft's RFID
framework.
Today that support extends to all SAMSys readers, including the SAMSys
9310, 9311, 9320 v2.7 and the new 9320 2.8, the first commercially available
RFID UHF reader that can read tags that conform to the EPC Generation Two
(Gen 2) standard. SAMSys' newest reader also supports the full array of
first-generation tag protocols, making it possible to deploy Gen 2 tags
alongside legacy RFID installations without having to change the entire tag
infrastructure.
SAMSys RFID readers will be used to demonstrate an early version of
Microsoft's RFID Infrastructure at the Microsoft Tech-Ed Europe conference
that opens today in Amsterdam.
"There is an urgent need for solutions that simplify and lower the cost
of RFID implementations, and Microsoft's initiative is a major step toward
that goal," said Cliff Horwitz, chairman, CEO and president of SAMSys
Technologies, Inc. "With a solution that allows RFID implementations to be
configured and managed with a familiar Microsoft interface, companies of all
sizes will be able to easily integrate RFID into their operations, manage RFID
devices without excessive overhead, and realize the potential of RFID for
bringing new efficiencies and intelligence into the supply chain."
"Our goal is to stimulate widespread adoption of RFID technology by
offering software that will make it easy and economical to implement RFID-
enabled solutions," said Ted Kummert, Corporate Vice President of the Business
Process and Integration Division at Microsoft Corp. "The support of hardware
partners like SAMSys is critical to helping ensure that we meet those
objectives."
Microsoft's RFID Infrastructure, based on the Microsoft .NET framework,
will include an advanced device management layer and a robust event management
layer that can be embedded in third party applications.
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