Wirama Claims World First with Passive RFID Location Technology

Logistics Insight Asia - Technology & Market Trends, 14/2/2008

Wirama has demonstrated the world’s first RFID reader that is capable of precisely locating passive RFID tags based on the EPC Class 1 Gen 2 standard. Traditionally, locationing has been possible only with more expensive active tags that run on batteries and cost significantly more than passive tags, limiting their applicability to tracking more expensive assets.

With the advent of Wirama’s new technology, locating a 10-cent passive tag precisely is now possible, thereby significantly reducing the price of entry for location-enabling any RFID deployment.

“Wirama has discovered some very novel approaches to achieve this major milestone,” said Ben Wild, President of Wirama. “We are very excited about the new applications that are enabled by these fundamental set of patent-pending innovations.” Wirama’s cofounders include Chief Scientists Dr. Upamanyu Madhow (pioneer in wireless communication and Professor at UC Santa Barbara) and Dr. Kannan Ramchandran (pioneer in signal processing and Professor at UC Berkeley).

Wirama and its partners will offer RFID reader systems to their customers for pilot testing during Q1 2008. Wirama will also demonstrate its technology at the RFID Journal Live Conference April 16-18 in Las Vegas, NV.

Wirama, www.wirama.com