ConnecTerra Announces RFTagAware Compliance Jump Start for Rapid RFID Deployments; Software Simplifies Mandate Compliance With Low Risk and a Long Term Advantage.CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- ConnecTerra(TM), a supplier of RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. Middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a , today announced RFTagAware(TM) Compliance Jump Start, a turn-key software product designed to meet the immediate needs of organizations who must comply with deadlines issued under retail and government RFID mandates. Compliance Jump Start offers customers an alternative to a costly full scale RFID deployment, while providing a robust upgradeable foundation for expansion as future needs for RFID emerge. Compliance Jump Start is being demonstrated at the EPCglobal US Tech Expo 2004 in Bentonville, Arkansas
"Suppliers to Wal-Mart, Target and the Department of Defense are challenged with developing RFID deployment strategies that address both near-term and long range business objectives." says Linda Bernardi, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of ConnecTerra. "Many suppliers will benefit from taking a phased approach to implementing RFID, allowing them to minimize both cost and the impact to their supply chain infrastructure as they continue to define their long range objectives and build ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). models. ConnecTerra's Compliance Jump Start is aggressively priced to support the initiatives of both small and large companies.", says Bernardi. "When combined with reader and printer hardware, the total cost to a supplier is approximately $30,000, which is significantly below the price points of other solutions on the market. With Compliance Jump Start, suppliers can take control of their budgets and meet compliance mandates with the assurance that they have selected a robust RFID foundation that they can build upon as rapidly as they need to." Compliance Jump Start is designed to support internal end user development of RFID compliance solutions and delivers complete turn-key functionality for material handling, logistics and warehouse management solution providers. Compliance Jump Start supports all required operations throughout the process of tagging and verifying cases and pallets and supports all of the leading RFID reader A transmitter/receiver that reads the contents of RFID tags in the vicinity. Also called an "RFID interrogator." The maximum distance between the reader's antenna and the tag vary, depending on application. and printer hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. . Configuration and workflow management capabilities simplify implementation and operation and the flexible handling of exceptions allows for advanced performance monitoring and process tuning. Several options for back end data integration and reporting are also available. Compliance Jump Start leverages components of the powerful RFTagAware RFID infrastructure software developed by ConnecTerra to extend enterprise awareness to RFIDtagged objects of all kinds. Compliance Jump Start includes a four antenna RFTagAware deployment license allowing organizations to implement ConnecTerra's RFTagAware infrastructure software into their supply chain operations. Many organizations have selected RFTagAware for its comprehensive capabilities and benefits, simplifying their RFID deployments and offerings in warehousing, consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one , retail and manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. . Pricing and Availability Compliance Jumpstart is priced at $18,000 with early access available now and general availability in late July. Compliance Jump Start is available direct from ConnecTerra and through ConnecTerra partners. For more information on Compliance Jump Start, RFTagAware and Device Computing computing - computer , please contact ConnecTerra at 617.441.2200 or visit us on the web at www.connecterra.com. Standards Compliance ConnecTerra has been a member of the Auto-ID Center since 2002 and is an active member of EPCglobal. Compliance Jump Start and RFTagAware are designed to be compliant with all relevant standards of EPCglobal and work with RFID readers whose hardware implements the EPCglobal Class 0 and Class 1 protocols and support the EPCglobal Tag Data Standard. About ConnecTerra, Inc. Founded in 2001, ConnecTerra, Inc. is a provider of enterprise infrastructure software for device computing. ConnecTerra's products and technologies help to extend enterprise awareness to networked devices such as RFID readers, where companies are looking to tap into the wealth of data captured by these devices. ConnecTerra's RFTagAware targets the specific challenges of enterprise RF tag deployments, including tag data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a and reader management. Using RFTagAware, companies are able to get their initial RFID deployments up and producing results quickly, while knowing that the infrastructure can scale as the number of tagged items, readers and remote sites grow. ConnecTerra is a member of EPCglobal and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . For more information visit www.connecterra.com. |
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