GPS Business News: A French start-up named Insiteo and specializing in indoor positioning has concluded the initial phase of a founding round valued at several million Euros. Investment has been secured from venture capital firm Emertec and a small group of private investors, including Anne-Sophie Pastel, former CEO and co-founder of auFeminin.com, with the support of ACTA Finance.

“The increase in capital will enable us to equip our first clients, including a major site in Paris attracted by the benefits of the Insiteo solution,” said Arnaud Masson, President of Insiteo. “Ours is indeed a disruptive technology able to deliver to most existing phones a perfect continuity of location services in environments where GPS is unavailable, including commercial centers, tradeshows, and industrial sites,” Mr. Masson continued.

Insiteo’s technology is an infrastructure-based solution that combines A-GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, and, in some cases, FM radio to provide indoor, sub three meter positioning. “We’ve identified sites where our clients place a sufficiently high value on being able to deliver location-based information that they can justify a modest investment in site-specific infrastructure”, explained Stuart Strickland, vice president at Insiteo. “Unlike many RTLS systems – which, in some respects, this approach resembles – we do not rely upon any customized user equipment, so anyone with a phone can essentially walk in and participate”, he added.

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Measurement Devices: Guangzhou / Guangzhou, China -- DAILY RFID has recently upgraded its UHF Long range RFID reader, Model DL910, to enhance the user experience and durablility, with promotion price price at $780USD.
It offers a long read range of up to 15m basing on different RFID tags.
This globally-compliant, high performance UHF reader, compliant with ISO 18000-6C(EPC Gen 2) & ISO 18000-6B standards, is ideal for installation in outdoor and industrial environments.
It is an autonomous reader that can be triggered automatically to read the tags with high identification accuracy even in a multi-reader environment.
For ease of use, the UHF Long range reader is designed with a unique keyhole bracket design and mounting bracket at the back to simplify mounting on counters.
It also has multi port interfaces such as RS232, RS485, Wiegand, TIP/IP.
The Model DL910 has an impressive read range of 8m - 15m based on different RFID tags.
The Long range RFID Reader DL910 has a variety of configuration options and can cater for the demand of rapid flowing asset tracking with compliant rate up to 100 km/h.
As a result, it is suitable for use in vehicle access control, warehouse management, process automation where tags are to be read and written to at fast moving speeds.
Please visit www.rfid-in-china.com/products_702_1.html or contact DAILY RFID for more infomation about it, Their wide variety of RFID Tags and other accessories

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PR.COM: Guangzhou, China, August 15, 2009 --(PR.com)-- DAILY RFID has released mini 13.56MHz USB RFID reader in USB stick form for office environment, where laptops, PCs and smartphones are widely used. It is designed as a plug-and-play, easy-to-use device while maintaining low cost.
This USB RFID reader from Daily RFID enables a low cost platform for deploying interactive read/write applications. Communicating with your computer through USB data connection, it can read and write RFID tags meeting compliance with ISO/IEC 15693 or ISO/IEC 14443A/B protocol.
The USB RFID reader/writer can easily fit in your pocket and is compatible with devices running a variety of operating system, such as Microsoft Pocket PC 2002/2003, Microsoft Windows 98, Palm OS4.1 and LINUX etc. And it can be easily installed without complex engineering or technical know-how.

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Guangzhou, China, August 08, 2009 --(PR.com)-- DAILY RFID, a Chinese leading producer of RFID hardware, unveils its new PDA based Mobile RFID reader DL710 available in LF or HF version. It delivers high performance to cater for the requirement of RFID mobile solutions, with a low price at 380USD this month.
Designed for true mobility and mobile applications, this PDA based Mobile RFID reader supports GPRS Voice and Data transfer, Bluetooth 2.0 standard, WiFi and various physical layer communication interfaces. RFID tags can be easily tracked when this Mobile RFID reader is moved throughout your operations.
The Mobile RFID reader DL710 features 400MHz Samsung S3C2440 Processor, 128MB SDRAM and 64MB Flash ROM storage to protect data from resets or even complete power loss. In addition, it suuports numerous advanced applications such as integrated barcode scanner, bluetooth and camera, thus allowing for the capture of a comprehensive range of data – including RFID tags, barcodes and images.

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TMC Net: Jun 27, 2009 (The Sun - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A head of lettuce can have a long journey from the field to your salad bowl, but a new locally developed project can tell you just where that lettuce came from, providing a safer way to regulate the leafy green industry.

The project by the University of Arizona Yuma County Cooperative Extension uses a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and GPS technology to store and transmit information about the crop.

This results in almost instant traceback of leafy greens. That way, if there's ever a health scare associated with the crop, shippers will be able to tell where it came from, making it safer for consumers.

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PR WEB: Vestac LLC of Brick, New Jersey announced today the general availability of the industry's first FCC approved, multi-modal Wi-Fi and Infrared (IR) Real Time Locationing System (RTLS). This unique, patent-pending RFID capability combines high accuracy Wi-Fi positioning algorithms and IR's inherent lower cost "choke point" tracking.

Brick, NJ (PRWEB) June 25, 2009 -- Vestac LLC of Brick, New Jersey announced today the general availability of the industry's first FCC approved, multi-modal Wi-Fi and Infrared (IR) Real Time Locationing System (RTLS). This unique, patent-pending RFID capability combines high accuracy Wi-Fi positioning algorithms and IR's inherent lower cost "choke point" tracking. Coupled with long battery life Vestac provides for a flexible, easy to deploy positioning solution for the lowest total cost of ownership. The system has already received advance orders from several large enterprises for tracking people, inventory, and equipment.

The 220Bi tag and 330Xi battery-operated IR transmitter support simultaneous tracking through Wi-Fi and IR, and overcoming the limits of traditional RFID tags. This allows for a low-cost deployment and delivers a high level of accuracy even in areas with relatively sparse Wi-Fi coverage. The 220Bi tags can be worn by personnel or affixed to assets and are available in several form factors, which can be customized to specific requirements. The 220Bi and the 330Xi transmitter form a unique "Deploy and Go" architecture which requires no additional network modifications or expensive wiring.

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RTLS For Dummies Book Review at amazon.com: RTLS for Dummies is the most comprehensive book written for anyone who is involved in the Location system business. It also provides an excellent study for anyone entering this business or educational institutions who could use it as a textbook or a reference for all RTLS related seminars.

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GAORFIDAssetTracking in Business Services, French Polynesia: Toronto, Canada - GAO RFID Asset Tracking Inc. (www.GAORFIDAssetTracking.com) introduces its smart High Frequency (HF) RFID Reader/Writer (GAO 233003). The HF Fixed Reader/Writer provides easy installation and is an ideal hardware solution that can be integrated into Point of Sale (POS) Systems where reading multiple tags are required, such as for jewelry, laundry management, or documents tracing. This advanced RFID Reader/Writer is versatile and easy to use and adheres to ISO 15693.

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PRNewswire: Time Domain Adds Three New Ultra Wideband (UWB) Products to its PLUS Line to Meet RTLS Demand in Healthcare, Manufacturing, Logistics and Safety/Security Markets Making the case that size does matter when it comes to real-time location system (RTLS) tags and reader/antennas, Time Domain Corporation, www.timedomain.com, a leader in precision ultra wideband (UWB) (RTLS), today introduced the thinnest active wearable UWB badge tag for RTLS applications, an externally-powered original equipment manufacturer (OEM) tag, and a small reader/antenna as part of its PLUS 2.0 product line. These new UWB products bring additional flexibility to interaction-level asset visibility by broadening the types of enterprise assets that can be precisely located and the variety of work environments where PLUS sub-room level real-time location can be readily applied. With a thickness of 6.8 mm, height of 75 mm, and width of 37 mm, a worker or visitor can easily attach the vertically-oriented, LED-enabled PLUS 2.0 Badge Tag to a collar, shirt pocket, lanyard or belt. Users can verify their arrival and status at a location or interaction with another person or piece of equipment with the touch of a button on the PLUS 2.0 Badge Tag, which features a four-year battery life.

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