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Intermec Introduces Powerful Intellitag Generation 2 UHF RFID Technology

Intermec Technologies Corp. today introduced Intellitag Generation 2 UHF RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, incorporating key high-performance RFID capabilities found nowhere else. Intermec Intellitag Generation 2 RFID technology dramatically increases system performance and provides levels of reliability and functionality not found in older UHF RFID technologies. More importantly, it offers the functions and features most requested by companies implementing RFID.

Intellitag Generation 2 patented RFID technology provides:

-- Reliable read/write RFID tags with unlimited read-write capabilities for maximum system flexibility and utility;

-- "Frequency hopping" to maximize read ranges needed in typical supply chain operations;

-- Operation at multiple communications frequencies, required for global implementations;

-- Global interoperability and the ability to migrate to relevant emerging global RFID standards, a key benefit in today's global supply chain environment;

-- FCC Part 15 operation to avoid the need for a separate FCC site license for each U.S.-deployed reader;

-- Operation under new, higher-power European frequency requirements, ensuring the highest possible performance;

-- Tag "persistence," which dramatically improves tag read reliability in the field;

-- High tag detection reliability for extremely high read rates;

-- Reliable and verifiable write operations;

-- Operation of many readers in close proximity using the "dense reader mode."

-- Provides strong, proven global RFID capabilities

-- Dramatically increases UHF Generation 2 performance for greater ROI

-- Includes features most requested by end-user companies unavailable anywhere else

-- Significantly increases system performance over older RFID technologies

In recent years, Intermec has made available on a royalty-free basis critical intellectual property to aid adoption of EPC and international RFID standards. Five key Intermec RFID inventions provide the backbone of the EPCglobal Inc Generation 2 air interface protocol and the EPC data numbering scheme. Today Intermec holds more than 140 additional RFID foundational and application patents covering many uses of RFID in supply chain applications. For example, Intermec IP covers handheld barcode scanners with UHF RFID readers, barcode printers with RFID readers and combination fixed and handheld RFID readers with wireless communication capabilities.

For information about Intermec's RFID intellectual property licensing program, contact Intermec Vice President Mike Wills, mike.wills@intermec.com, 513-874-5882.

Source: press release

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