Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

The World of RFID in China

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

We’re hearing about a lot of RFID projects overseas, especially in Asia. Sure enough, this week’s RFID World China event showcased old vets and up-and-comers with a slew of awards.

Invengo, Fudan Microelectronics, and Sense Technology topped the list of industry vendors honored, while the SMAP Smart Mobile Application Platform and the S1853 Industrial UHF RFID/2D Bar Code Handheld Reader won recognition as the top products.

The awards are the result of a 20-day voting process by various trade associations and authorities.



2007 China RFID Industry Top 10 Vendors, Products, Events and Applications

RFID World China Announces the Result of “2007 China RFID Industry Annual Awards”

RFID World China announced the result of “2007 China RFID Industry Annual Awards” after 20-day voting process. “2007 China RFID Industry Annual Awards” is a big, non-profit RFID event originated by RFIDWorld China and RFID China Alliance, and supported by China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, China Information Industry Trade Association, UID Center china, GD-HK RFID Alliance, RFID Shanghai Alliance, RFID Dongguang Alliance and other RFID organizations, as well as some of the most authoritative and popular IT medias. The event aims to review and summarize the developments achieved in the past year and give RFID vendors who make a great contribution to the industry a chance to get recognition from the RFID community.

“It’s the biggest and most authoritative voting, it has a positive impact on RFID industry and consumer RFID education through encouraging RFID companies to participate, sharing their information and experiences,” said Weiqi Yang, RFIDWorld China’s president, ”No other RFID industry event offers more learning, and makes available more resources for people who want to get an insight into RFID market in China ”.

The Awards fall into five categories: 2007 China RFID Industry Top 10 Applications – For real world applications which show the greatest innovation in using RFID technology and set up anexcellent example to follow; “2007 China RFID Industry Top 10 Vendors” - For vendors who has technical leadership in RFID and have significant impact on the industry; 2007 China RFID Industry Top 10 Products – For products which use innovative technology or make a breakthrough in its areas; 2007 China RFID Industry Top 10 Events - For applications which push ahead the progress of RFID development or speed up the widespread of RFID adoptions.

This event is embraced by RFID manufacturers, system integrators, organizations and end uses, and attracts almost all well-known RFID vendors to participate. After a careful scrutiny, 37 RFID vendors, 25 applications, 32 events and 35 products were selected from hundreds of applicants as candidates.

The list of awardees of “2007 China RFID Industry Top 10 Vendors” is as follows:

1 Invengo 2 Fudan Microelectronics 3 Sense Technology 4 Aerospace Golden Card 5 TsingHua TongFang SmartCard 6 Belling 7 ASK-TongFang 8 Raifu Intelligent, 9 Quanray Electronics 10 Cantechs

The list of awardees of “2007 China RFID Industry Top 10 Products” is as follows:

1 SMAP Smart Mobile Application Platform 2 S1853 Industrial UHF RFID/2D Bar Code Handheld Reader 3 BL75R04 2Kbit RFID Tag(IEC15693) 4 RFID Smart Library System 5 2.4GHz Active RFID Tag and Reader 6 XCTF-5013 Tray Tag 7 RFID Middleware 8 High-Performance Automatic RFID Label Converter 9 Anti-counterfeit RFID tag 10 QR2233-CD UHF RFID Chip

The list of awardees of “2007 China RFID Industry Top 10 Applications” is as follows:

1 The national ID card program 2 The National Railcars Automatic Identification Project 3 RFID in 2007 Special Olympics International 4 Guang Zhen Railway Adopts RFID Ticket 5 RFID tags installed on more than four million containers carrying dangerous chemicals in Shanghai 6 Beijing Capital Airport completes the implementation of RFID baggage system 7 Million of Buses in Beijing Use RFID System to Detect and Control the Amount of Exhaust Gas 8 RFID Application in ShenZhen Library 9 RFID in China’s Armed Police Annual Vehicle Examination 10 RFID Application in Logistics between Guangdong and Hongkong

The list of awardees of “2007 China RFID Industry Top 10 Event” is as follows:

1 RFID tickets of Beijing 2008 Olympics are on sale 2 the release of regulations for UHF 800/900 RFID 3 Invengo went to public 4 National 11th Five Year Plan for Food and Medicine Layout RFID Adoption 5 The National Railcars Automatic Identification Project 6 Guang Zhen Railway Adopts RFID Ticket 7 72 Commissioner of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Appeal to Save National RFID Tag Standards 8 Beijing Capital Airport completes the implementation of RFID baggage system 9 RFID in 2007 Special Olympics International 10 Shanghai Tobacco Logistics Use RFID for Identification

More info about “2007 China RFID Industry Annual Awards”, please click: www.rfidworld.com.cn/down/template3/award.htm [end] 

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