Richardson’s renown Telecom Corridor® area is well positioned to benefit from what industry analysts are predicting will soon be a $1 billion industry: RFID or Radio Frequency Identification.

Telecom Corridor area key assets in RFID Cluster

• Strong venture capital investment sources

• Presence of a major university focused on software engineering and computer sciences 

• Nucleus of companies involved in RFID components:: semiconductor technology, software development, RF communications and  wireless systems

• Company competencies: electronic tags, readers, compilation, transmission and management of information for data warehousing, inventory control, supply chain logistics, and sensor network management.

Telecom Corridor area companies in RFID Cluster:  

• GlobeRanger        
  - Designed and developed iMotion™ Edgeware™ Platform for managing device networks, transforming data and optimizing business processes for Commercial and Government markets, foundations for RFID, Mobility and Senor-based Solutions, providing platform runtime, software development kit, application components, and tools for rapid application development and deployment.

• Intermec Technologies        
  - Inventor of world’s most widely used bar code symbology      
  - First company in RFID industry to demonstrate working Gen 2 RFID products      
  - Offers hardware, media and service products for EPC Gen 2 compliant installations for best-in-class inventory management, logistics and retail operations solutions.

• RFSAW        
  - Produces RFID technology and products operating in 2.45 GHz globally legal frequency band.        
  - Exploits new RFID system based on Surface Wave Acoustic (SAW) devices, for solutions for supply chain, asset management, security/government organization applications.        
  - Invented, patented and development tags, readers, antennas and            applications software in a variety of configurations.

• Texas Instruments      
  - World’s largest manufacturer of RFID transponders and reader systems.      
  - Provides the chips and device technology with optional security encoding in addition to variable memory ranges.      
  - Visionary leader in establishing new markets and international standards for RFID applications 

• WJ Communications        
  - Leading designer and supplier ofRF solutions serving multiple markets targeting wireless communications, RFID, broadband cable and defense/homeland security.        
  - Products include RF integrated circuits, RFID reader modules, chipsets and multi-chip modules.        
  - Acquired Richardson-based Telenexus in 2005        

For more information on RFID, please contact Sue Walker at 972-792-2806.