Impinj, which makes UHF RFID chips, said its pharmaceutical manufacturing demo proved new doesn’t mean slow.
In pharmaceutical manufacturing and fill-line demonstrations at the RFID Health Care Industry Adoption Summit, a near-field UHF Gen 2 RFID “solution” made of Impinj’s Speedway™ reader and O-I’s item-level embedded RFID tags (powered by Impinj’s Monza™ chips) achieved 100 percent reliability when reading and writing tags at high speed on pharmaceutical bottles.
In the first demo, the UHF Gen 2 system programmed 96-bit EPC numbers at rates exceeding 600 tags per minute on bottles containing the four most common dose types – liquids, gel caps, solids and powder. In the second demonstration, the system developed by Impinj and O-I flawlessly read 600 tags per minute on cases containing 48 individually tagged bottles and a case-level tag.
Impinj-Powered UHF Gen 2 RFID Solution Delivers Exceptional Results for Item Tagging of Pharmaceuticals
Demonstration at RFID Health Care Industry Adoption Summit Showcases Embedded-Tag Packaging Technology From Owens-Illinois
SEATTLE, WA – (MARKET WIRE) – November 14, 2006 – Impinj, Inc., a leading provider of Gen 2 radio frequency identification (RFID) chips and readers, today announced the results of a live demonstration conducted yesterday by the HealthCare Packaging division of Owens-Illinois (O-I) at the RFID Health Care Industry Adoption Summit in Washington, D.C.
In pharmaceutical manufacturing and fill-line demonstrations, a near-field UHF Gen 2 RFID solution, comprising Impinj’s Speedway™ reader and O-I’s item-level embedded RFID tags powered by Impinj’s Monza™ chips, achieved 100% reliability when reading and writing tags at high speed on pharmaceutical bottles. In the first demonstration, the UHF Gen 2 system programmed 96-bit EPC numbers at rates exceeding 600 tags per minute on bottles containing the four most common dose types – liquids, gel caps, solids and powder. In the second demonstration, the system developed by Impinj and O-I flawlessly read 600 tags per minute on cases containing 48 individually tagged bottles and a case-level tag. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/rfidnews-4.gif)
