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RFID Excellence in Business Awards Recognize Innovation, Vision, Environmental Guardianship

Friday 12. September 2008 - Gala Award Ceremony Marks Opening Day of TechInsights' RFID World 2008 Event

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(R) iREAD(TM) 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)