Sponsors and Exhibitors

Time Domain is the pioneer and world leader in ultra wideband (UWB) product development and provides solutions that enable enterprises to maximize productivity of their people and assets using a real-time location system (RTLS). The products and professional services deliver precise location in real-time to the manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and other vertical markets and are sold and supported through a network of certified channel partners. Time Domain's UWB products are also available for strategic OEM integration. For more information, please visit www.timedomain.com. Pharos Capital Group, LLC, www.pharosfunds.com, of Dallas, Texas and Nashville, Tennessee is Time Domain's largest Private equity investor.

AAID is an OEM manufacturer and distributor of ultra long range, hands-free RFID readers, tags, software and accessories providing security gate automatic vehicle identification, high value asset loss prevention and real time inventory management as well as personnel access control, visitor tracking and emergency evacuation/mustering systems. In addition, the AAID Ultrasonic Asset and Personnel RTLS Tracking System is unique in Automatic Identification Systems for having low cost, long-range ultrasonic tags, which are small and discreet with long-term battery life. When the Tag is moved, built in motion sensors allow it to transmit a unique 16 bit identifier signal as an alarm.

 

AAID sells to Installing Dealers, Wholesale Distributors, Vertical Market Systems Integrators and Private Label Strategic Partners. In addition, AAID provides consulting services and application design assistance to End Users, Architects and Security Consultants.

 

A member of VUANCE, Inc.

Awarepoint's Active RFID technologies and real time location systems (RTLSs) include its real time awareness platform, firmware, RFID tags, sensors, and bridges. Awarepoint's technologies collect raw sensor data and transform that data into high-value positioning information that can be used to add location awareness to a variety of healthcare, manufacturing, security and other applications. Requiring no hard wiring, Awarepoint's "plug and track" network is a fully managed service, including hardware, software, remote monitoring and maintenance, offering the only truly practical, enterprise-wide RTLS technology solution on the market today. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California and serves clients across the United States through a national sales and operations workforce.

 

Cymbet Corporation—a green technology company—is a leader in thin-film, solid-state storage devices and energy harvesting technology. The company is the first to market a component-class energy solution that designers can use to realize new embedded systems capabilities. Cymbet's EnerChip thin-film devices enable innovative energy storage applications for integrated circuits and new products for process control, medical, sensor, RFID, communications, consumer and portable electronic devices.

DecaWave is a fabless semiconductor company. It was founded in January 2004 by the CTO, Michael Mc Laughlin. It now boasts a team of engineers with many decades of experience in communications algorithms, wireless communication, marketing, digital and analog semiconductor design and standards processes. The initial goal of the company is to produce a complete, single chip CMOS ultra wideband IC. This will implement the IEEE 802.15.4a spec and work at rates 110kbps, 850kbps, 6.8Mbps and 27Mbps.

 

 

The decaWave engineering team have been producing communications IC's for many years and have been working on ultra wideband since early 2002. One of the founders, Michael Mc Laughlin was the driving force behind the ParthusCeva ( now Ceva Inc.) contributions to the IEEE Ultra Wideband PHY proposal. The ParthusCeva role in the standardisation has since been taken over by decaWave.

Ekahau Inc. is the industry leader in providing WiFi-based RTLS and site survey solutions. Ekahau's customers, including several Fortune 500 companies worldwide, are realizing the benefits of WiFi based location services and innovative WiFi network planning and optimization tools. Ekahau's solutions are being used in more than 150 hospitals around the world, as well as by manufacturers, mining/oil/gas companies, government agencies and the military. Ekahau partners include wireless software developers, leading system integrators and international OEM partners, who develop and market wireless enterprise applications. Ekahau is a U.S.-based corporation, with offices in the USA, Europe and Asia.

Innovision Research and Technology delivers innovative and market leading ICs for wireless connectivity solutions. Our primary focus is on short-range data communication from one device to another, passive and/or active, with a special emphasis on Near Field Communications (NFC) and RFID solutions.

As a leading fabless custom RF IC design and systems provider we offer a complete engineering capability to our clients, including research engineering, custom IC design and production, and system design engineering

Intelligent InSites is a leading provider of enterprise visibility solutions. The InSites Enterprise Visibility Platform™ improves operational performance by providing organizations with a single system capable of locating people, assets and equipment via information derived through a variety of wireless locating technologies. The information is then leveraged to streamline and automate workflow, asset management, and inventory management activities, resulting in increased productivity and efficient deployment of resources.

 

Our versatile and scalable platform serves as the core of our customers' enterprise visibility strategy by enabling the seamless integration of real-time location data with their existing IT systems, communication systems, building systems, and mobile devices. The platform also allows customers and integrators to fully customize and enhance the system to suit their unique requirements and environment.

RF Code provides enterprise-class active RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology and solutions used to discover, track and monitor the condition of critical assets, inventory and personnel. Founded in 1997, the company has developed an award-winning hardware platform for active RFID operating at 433 MHz and 303 MHz.

 

RF Code and its world-class roster of integration partners develop solutions that are used around the world in demanding industry environments including healthcare, defense, pharma, manufacturing, transportation, information technology and homeland security. For more information, please call (877) 969-2828 or visit www.rfcode.com

Sonitor Technologies, recently named North American RTLS Emerging Company of the Year by Frost and Sullivan, offers a unique ultrasound IPS (Indoor Positioning System) that automatically tracks the real-time location of moveable equipment and/or people in complex environments with 100% room-level, or sub room-level (such as bed-level) accuracy.

Due to the unique attributes of ultrasound there is no risk of electromagnetic interference with other equipment. The low quantity of data transmitted from the Tags requires minimal LAN bandwidth so existing wired or wireless LAN can easily be leveraged. The Sonitor IPS, now chosen by more than 30 hospitals, is fully, easily and quickly scalable.

Founded in 2000, Convergence Systems Limited (CSL) is a leading engineering company and manufacturer of RFID readers, antennas, RFID modules, and RFID tags. CSL's broad product portfolio includes EPC Gen2 passive RFID products as well as a proprietary active RTLS system. CSL was established to deliver serve the logistic management, supply chain, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, access control, asset and security management, transportation, and retail industries around the world. CSL is a member of the Chung Nam Group, which was founded in 1935 and has over 12,000 employees with global operations including electronics manufacturing of various RF and wireless products.

Enfucell, Ltd is a dynamic, innovative company offering state of the art customer solutions for disposable low voltage (1,5 - 3.0 V) power needs.

 

Enfucell's thin, flexible and environmentally friendly Softbattery™ represents the next generation of battery technology, offering a completely new level of performance and thinness. The manufacturing process is based on traditional paper printing and lamination technology, making it cost competitive, using freely available industrial raw materials thus offering the company a key competitive advantage.

 

The Softbattery™ can be used in a wide range of new applications such as semi-active RFID, functional printing, senor based tags and transdermal drug delivery patches.

Holst Centre is an independent open-innovation R&D centre that develops generic technologies for Wireless Autonomous Transducer Solutions and for Systems-in-Foil. A key feature of Holst Centre is its partnership model with industry and academia around shared roadmaps and programs. It is this kind of cross-fertilization that enables Holst Centre to tune its scientific strategy to industrial needs.

Holst Centre was set up in 2005 by IMEC (Flanders, Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands) with support from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Government of Flanders. It is named after Gilles Holst, a Dutch pioneer in Research and Development and first director of Philips Research.

Located on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Holst Centre benefits from the state-of-the-art on-site facilities. Holst Centre has over 100 employees (growing to over 200 by 2010) and a commitment from over 15 industrial partners.

Q-Track develops and sells active RTLS based on the company's Near-Field Electromagnetic Ranging (NFER®) technology. NFER® technology is a radically new form of wireless tracking that brings real-time locating systems (RTLS) to the most difficult indoor environments. NFER® systems operate under Part 15 power levels in the AM broadcast band (530-1710kHz). By exploiting the properties of long wavelength, low frequency signals, NFER® systems deliver better propagation and near immunity from the multipath that plagues high frequency "solutions." Still in the prototype stage, Q-Track offers QT^(TM)-400 Starter Kits for sale to early adopters and strategic partners interested in evaluating the technology.

Ubisense delivers precise real-time location solutions which are relied upon in mission critical applications by manufacturing, logistics, process industry, healthcare and military customers around the world. Ubisense delivers a unique combination of ultra-wideband (UWB) hardware technology and a comprehensive software platform for rapid deployment and easy integration. Delivering 15cm 3D accuracy in real-time in both indoor and outdoor environments. Ubisense solutions are used for many different things including locating pallets in distribution centers to improve efficiency, parts and tools in manufacturing plants to decrease production costs and people in nuclear facilities to improve safety.