Introducing temperature sensing to a platform suite of products, Axcess International (News - Alert) Inc., a provider of wireless business activity monitoring solutions, has announced the industry's first Smart Wireless Sticker. At a cost of less than $10 each, it provides automatic item identification, locating, tracking, protecting, data logging and condition sensing for items from up to a 1,000 feet away.

 

The company claims that the Wireless Sticker provides capabilities such as: stores and forwards user-defined programmable information; sensors Added to Axcess' Dot Platform; easy to program electronically; communicates simultaneously to multiple standards-based infrastructures; pinpoints where perishables went bad to assign accountability; tamper resistant and re-usable, if needed; rich feature/function set for a revolutionary price point under $10; easily and reliably adhered to items, boxes, assets and vehicles; tag (News - Alert) wakes up and sends alerts at designated temperature ranges; and stores data and transmits in real time over a low cost wireless network.

 

The technological capabilities of the device include, long-range active wireless communications for automobile identification, tracking, sensing and protection; bar code application for short range manual identification; temperature sensing, data logging and wireless transfer of the condition of produce, IT equipment and other temperature sensitive items; electronic Product Code (EPC)-standard passive wireless RFID communications supporting applications in the retail supply chain, including the Wal-Mart mandate; printing on the sticker for visual identification; and short range active wireless read/write manifesting that tracks the history of equipment repair.

 

Combining traditional bar codes, Electronic Product Code (EPC) RFID, long-range RFID tracking and wireless sensing in a small electronic label, the “wireless computer on a sticker” can be easily adhered to most any object. It can enhance visibility into the condition of perishables and pharmaceuticals throughout the shipping process and improves data management in product manufacturing, product automatic identification in shipping, automatic inventory and protection of enterprise assets. Axcess' newest application is based on its proven Dot micro-wireless technology platform.

 

“Industry has a common set of requirements for wirelessly enabling things in the enterprise to improve efficiency, productivity, security and safety," stated Allan Griebenow, Axcess International's CEO and president. "Bar code product data needs to be identifiable via wireless over longer ranges. Assets need to be located, tracked, inventoried and protected automatically. Sensing needs to be portable and available on discrete products. Until now, industry had conceived of something called a Smart Active Label or SAL. The Smart Wireless Sticker leapfrogs that by delivering short and long range wireless communications plus sensor logging, all combined in a very small, very low cost, easy to attach, standards-based wireless sticker.”