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Sirit Announces New Solution for the Electronic Vehicle Registration Market
Sirit Announces New Solution for the Electronic Vehicle Registration Market.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nHigh performance IDentity 5100 reader targets global market; 650 million\n\n\ncars\n\n\nVIENNA, Austria, Oct. 9 /CNW/ - Sirit Inc. ("Sirit") (TSX: SI), a leading\nprovider of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, today introduced\nits latest Automatic Vehicle Identification ("AVI") reader solution, the\nIDentity 5100, at the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association's\n75th Annual Meeting and Exhibition in Vienna, Austria.\n\n\nThe IDentity 5100 builds on the Company's AVI expertise and advanced\narchitecture to deliver an RFID reader solution for use in a variety of\ntraditional and new AVI applications including Electronic Vehicle Registration\n(EVR) and Electronic Vehicle Identification (EVI) deployments. The IDentity\n5100 reader was designed to communicate with vehicles traveling up to\n100 miles per hour (160 kilometers per hour) and supports North American,\nEuropean and other worldwide regulatory environments making it a suitable EVR\nsolution for any country.\n\n\n"Our new IDentity 5100 was designed to leverage Sirit's best in class\nRFID reader technology and years of AVI experience to deliver a high\nperformance solution for the emerging EVR market," said John Freund, Vice\nPresident, AVI Solutions, Sirit Inc. "Market estimates suggest that between\nfive to ten percent of vehicles are not registered with government agencies\nresulting in lost revenue and public and environmental safety issues. The\nIDentity 5100 is a cost effective, global solution that can automate\nregistration compliance and enforcement thereby reducing the number of unsafe\nvehicles on the roads."\n\n\nThe EVR Infrastructure\n\n\nThe traditional registration methods used by most agencies, both foreign\nand domestic, are annually replaced visual-based stickers. In an EVR system\ndeployment, motor vehicles are outfitted with RFID transponders issued through\nvehicle inspection and registration offices.\n\n\nAn entire EVR system consists of RFID transponders, antennas, readers and\na host computer database system. A unique electronic identification code is\nassigned to each vehicle via the tamper-resistant windshield RFID sticker\ntransponder and each unique code is linked to a record in the centralized\nvehicle-database. The EVR reader network of fixed reader points (similar to\...