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SAMSys to Provide RFID Readers to U.S. Government
SAMSys to Provide RFID Readers to U.S. Government.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nTwo SAMSys Resellers Awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements for DoD \nInitiative\n\nTORONTO, May 12 /CNW/ - SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SMY: TSX) announced\ntoday that two of its value-added resellers have been awarded Blanket Purchase\nAgreements authorizing the use of SAMSys' new MP9320 v2.8 radio frequency\nidentification (RFID) reader to comply with RFID mandates from the U.S.\nDepartment of Defense. The agreements are expected to result in the sale of at\nleast 700 fixed RFID readers from multiple vendors over the next year during\nthe first phase of a long-term initiative to implement RFID technology\nthroughout the DoD's supply chain.\nThe contracts were awarded to WFI Government Services, Inc., and CDO\nTechnologies, Inc., both SAMSys resellers, as part of the DoD's Passive Radio\nFrequency Identification Electronic Product Code-1 (RFID EPC-1) project. The\nproject requires DoD suppliers to place RFID tags on all cases and pallets\ncontaining products sold to the U.S. military. Multi-protocol passive RFID \nEPC-1 readers are needed to exchange data with the tags in order to expedite\nidentification and tracking of DoD supplies.\nThe SAMSys MP9320 v2.8 reader can be purchased from either WFI or CDO\nunder the portion of the project's Item Group Level 2 bid award covering fixed\nRFID readers. The new SAMSys product meets all of the DoD's requirements in\nthe fixed reader category, including the ability to read both Class 0 and\nClass 1 tags concurrently without any firmware or software changes, write to\nClass 1 tags, and support the new EPC Generation Two (Gen 2) standard.\nWith these capabilities, DoD users who select SAMSys readers will be able\nto choose RFID tags from a variety of vendors, migrate to the new Gen 2\nstandard as those tags become available, and utilize Gen 2 tags alongside\nexisting legacy installations.\n\"The Department of Defense has enormous warehouses with a total of tens\nof thousands of dock doors, and eventually every one of those doors is going\nto need a fixed RFID reader,\" said Cliff Horwitz, chairman, CEO and president\nof SAMSys Technologies Inc. \"These contracts therefore pave the way for both\nshort-term sales and long-term revenue opportunities with the DoD.\"\nThe contracts authorizing DoD agencies to purchase SAMSys readers from\nWFI and CDO were awarded by the Army Contracting ...