Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

ThingMagic.com offers RFID development kits

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

ThingMagic, a developer of RFID technologies, has announced a variety of different RFID kits available for purchase from their Web site. The kits, called M5e-Compact, Mercury5e, and Mercury4, are designed to meet the non-traditional RFID needs of customers in a low-cost and user-friendly solution.

Each kit consists of RFID reader software and hardware for testing and developing embedded, mobile, portable and handheld RFID devices. Specifically the M5e-Compact kit is designed to appeal to a large array of industries from healthcare to manufacturing.

Through ease of use, wide-reaching functionality, and ease of purchase of the kits from their website, ThingMagic is hoping to have a solution for serving the large variety of needs in the expanding RFID market. [end] 

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