Las Vegas, NV
5:30p.m.-7:00p.m.
RFID World's second annual Excellence in RFID Awards Ceremony will be held on September 8, 2008, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in conjunction with the sixth annual RFID World.
The Awards Ceremony honors innovators and luminaries in the industry of RFID technology whose creation or implementation of radio frequency identification technology demonstrates the benefits of RFID.
RFID World and its editorial division invite you to join us at the industry event of the year, where leading industry executives and press members come together to honor the achievements of 2008 RFID Excellence in Business Awards finalists and winners. It's a night you won't want to miss!
Thank you for your interest in the RFID Awards. The nomination process is now closed. We look forward to seeing you at the awards event on Sept. 8, 2009. Companies or individuals may apply for more than one Award category, and may nominate themselves or others.
Award winners from last year include:
Excellence in RFID Implementation: Mercy Medical Center (end user), Edwards Lifesciences (supply chain partner), and WaveMark, Inc. (RFID vendor) are being honored for an RFID solution to track costly consumables, such as stents, within Mercy's Catheterization Lab. The application has yielded promising results, including a projected 30% reduction in high-cost inventory, the elimination of a daily hand-count of 2,000 items, and reduced waste of a perishable product.
Excellence in RFID Pilot: Evidencia LLP (distributor/integrator) won this award for cold chain management of temperature and delivery of avocados, an application spanning 6,000 miles-from the Rio Blanco farms (end user) in Chile to the end customer in California, a subsidiary of Green Giant. Using RFID-enabled temperature logging technology from Evidencia's affiliate, Information Mediary, the pilot produced 100 percent read rates despite challenging temperature and humidity conditions.
Excellence in RFID Technology: Eugene, Oregon-based ADASA, Inc. (vendor) is being recognized for its low-cost, wearable, mobile encoder, the PAD3500, which supports the encoding of tags anywhere, anytime. The device works in conjunction with ADASA's SmartCartridge, enabling the hands-free loading and encoding of RF tags. The solution has already demonstrated business value in a pilot with Freedom Shopping (end user), which reduced labor by as much as 50 percent.
RFID Visionary of the Year: Dr. Chris Diorio, chairman and chief technical officer of Impinj, Inc., is being honored for his leadership in EPCglobal standards and UHF RFID. Dr. Diorio was a key contributor in developing practical standards for the RFID industry through his leadership as chair of the EPCglobal Hardware Action Group. His company has been the world leader in producing Gen 2 silicon chips used in RFID tags. His leadership in near-field UHF communications helped overcome some of the enviornmental challenges to RFID, such as metal and water, to produce working solutions in supply-chain tracking.
Most Innovative RFID Application: Texas Instruments (vendor) received this award for its work with the World Wildlife Fund (end user) in tracking white-lipped peccaries, a type of wild pig, in the Amazon. TI's passive, low-frequency RFID transponder incorporated into the animal ear tags performed extremely well in a harsh, non-controlled environment. The RFID application is less invasive and 100 times less expensive than GPS options. The World Wildlife Fund is using the information to better understand animal behavior in order to conserve the species and its habitat.