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Antenova acquires short
range wireless antenna business from Perlos Corporation |
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RFID saves
lives – as
well as money |
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| Antenova: Antenova
acquires short range wireless antenna business from Perlos Corporation.
16 August 2005 |
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Antenova,
the integrated RF solutions company, announced today the acquisition
of gigaAnt short range wireless antenna business from Perlos Corporation.
The deal will provide an extended global sales channel for Antenova’s
High Dielectric Antenna (HDA™) technology and RADIONOVA radio
antenna modules and broaden Antenova’s product portfolio.
“gigaAnt
develops antennas for short range wireless devices used in Bluetooth™,
WiFi and WiMedia applications,” said Greg McCray, CEO Antenova, “The
gigaAnt purchase enables us to give our customers access to a broader
range of standard off-the-shelf antennas, which means faster time
to market with an already field-proven antenna solution. The acquisition
is part of Antenova’s strategy to focus growth in all the
major global markets for mobile and data devices.”
Further
details of the deal disclosed Antenova will acquire gigaAnt’s
global sales channel which includes a world class set of global
distributors and agents. "We believe gigaAnt’s high
quality and cost effective products are complimentary to Antenova’s
innovative HDA™ antennas and RADIONOVA radio antenna module
products,” stated Ric Roetering, vice president of sales
and marketing, Perlos Corporation.“This deal allows Perlos
to focus on its core business; e.g. design, manufacture and assembly
of mechanical and electronic modules, including customized RF solutions,
and opens the door for future cooperation between our companies
in standard off-the-shelf antennas. We are confident that Antenova
will be able to maximize the potential of its products and expanded
sales channel to further grow its global business.”
McCray
added, "Antenova is committed to satisfying the global handset,
laptop and wireless consumer electronics markets by providing innovative,
cost effective and highly efficient antenna products and integrated
RF solutions. This acquisition, combined with Antenova’s
industry-leading and patented HDA™ technology and RADIONOVA
radio antenna modules will allow us to offer products that
enable innovation and shorten time-to-market, and further
position Antenova
as the leading RF solutions company.”
For further information
please visit: http://www.antenova.com |
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| IDTechEx: RFID
saves lives – as well as money. 12 August 2005 |
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David Morgan, an ENT surgeon in the UK, has recently employed RFID
in two operating theatres to increase patient safety and to avoid
the possibility of patient mismatches - where the patient either
gets the wrong drugs or the wrong operation. This scheme has proved
to be very successful and it also highlights another aspect of RFID
in healthcare - privacy concerns become almost non-existent when
personal health and safety is involved.
As David Morgan said to IDTechEx: ‘We asked one hundred patients
if they had any concerns about the introduction of RFID technology
and not one of them had an objection.’
Along with Chris Ranger of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA),
he will be demonstrating his RFID system at the IDTechEx Smart Labels
Europe 2005 www.smartlabelseurope.com conference.
When it has been shown that 19% of all errors in National Health
Service (NHS) hospitals in the UK are down to misidentification and
that over 11% of errors in the US are down to drug misidentification,
then the value of this new scheme can be appreciated immediately.
Counterfeit drugs can cost lives. Giving the wrong medicine to an
already unwell person can have horrendous consequences and experts
believe that RFID is an essential element in the fight against counterfeits.
Aegate, who trialled their anti-counterfeit smart label solution,
believe that their system which uses RFID and barcodes, both of which
are read by the same scanner, will prove a vital resource in stemming
the flow of counterfeit drugs.
Only last month a large consignment of the drug Lipitor was found
to be counterfeit. This batch was around 120,000 packets and was
worth several million dollars. The entire batch had to be recalled
for patient safety, a costly exercise that could have been avoided
if each individual item could have been individually identified -
which is one of the main advantages of RFID smart labels.
The ability of RFID to uniquely identify individual items has many
practical applications in all areas of business, not just in healthcare
and pharmaceuticals. IKEA and Marks & Spencer have both used
this technology in the retail sector. IKEA have run a pilot project
testing RFID in a closed-loop system and Marks & Spencer have
tagged food at tray-level and clothing at item-level to improve their
customer service.
The RFID benefits for customer service are also being trialled by
British Airways. They are planning on using the technology to help
prevent lost luggage. So far trials have been a success with the
number of lost bags dropping to almost zero.
The cases given above are just a few examples of RFID being implemented
to give a definite improvement in the way organisations are being
run. To find out more about implementing RFID visit the Smart Labels
Europe 2005 conference www.smartlabelseurope.com, where you will
see speakers and presentations from all the companies named here
and many others who have their own informative stories to tell.
Smart Labels Europe 2005, 20th - 21st September, Cambridge, UK, sponsored
by Avery Dennison, is the sixth annual Smart Labels Europe conference
hosted by IDTechEx and is the largest European RFID event. It covers
adopters’ experiences, users’ needs, how to manufacture
RFID smart labels, emerging technologies and complete RFID systems.
This conference will examine and review the technology, allowing
you to understand the requirements of brand owners, retailers, product
manufacturers and other vertical sectors looking to adopt RFID.
See www.smartlabelseurope.com for details.
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