-- Performance: Leveraging Impinj's patent-pending True3D antenna
technology, Monza 4 chips boast the industry's highest read
reliability - 66% range improvement over the best performing
competitive tag chip - while enabling complete orientation
insensitivity for the first time. All Monza 4 chips have two
fully independent antenna ports, eliminating tags' blind spots
and significantly increasing read and write reliability in
real-world applications where tag orientation is hard to
control, such as in retail, baggage handling and asset tracking.
-- Privacy: Impinj's revolutionary QT technology, at the heart of
Monza 4QT, protects confidential information by maintaining two
separate data profiles (public and private) and allowing the tag
owner to control data exposure. The chip's private mode reveals
all data, while the public mode conceals confidential data and
replaces the tag's EPC with a generic, user-defined number. A
password can be required to switch between public and private
modes. Additionally, QT technology enables the owner to
selectively switch the tag into a short-range mode in which
private profile data is accessible only at a very short range.
This enhanced security helps prevent unauthorized readers from
retrieving private data, further protecting both the business'
confidential data and, in the case of retail applications,
consumer privacy.
-- Memory: The Monza 4 family offers memory options including 512
bits of user memory or up to 496 bits of EPC memory. Extended
user memory provides a portable, but private database to travel
with the tag and supports applications where a reliable database
connection is not available. Extended EPC memory enables
compliance with regional and industry-segment mandates that
require greater than 96-bit EPC numbers such as employed in the
SGTIN198 tag data standard.
"The Monza 4 family builds on the leading performance, quality and
reliability users have experienced from Impinj since we introduced the
world's first Gen 2 chip, Monza 1, back in 2005," said William T. Colleran,
Ph.D., president and CEO of Impinj. "Monza 4 chips provide users with
unmatched read and write reliability and flexible memory options on a
common platform, helping RFID applications deliver better business
results."
Monza 4 tag chips benefit numerous end-use applications, including
item-level apparel tagging, asset tracking, personal experience & safety,
material handling, logistics, chain of custody and others that demand
measurable business process improvements from RFID investments. The
superior read and write reliability enabled by True3D technology allow
system integrators and value-added resellers to demonstrate meaningful
returns on investment and derive more business from their RFID offerings.
In addition, QT technology enables emerging applications that require
greater security for confidential data. Inlay vendors can now develop a
complete family of high-performance tags with many functional options based
on a family of chips sharing common interface characteristics. Monza 4
chips offer converters the ability to provide tags with the highest
performance and a full range of functional choices, ensuring successful
participation in vendor selection and bake-off testing by end users and
integrators.
"We are excited to offer the Monza 4 family of chips in the Avery Dennison
RFID product line," said Jack Farrell, vice president of the RFID Division
at Avery Dennison. "With new, innovative features like True3D and QT
technologies, Monza 4 will help our customers quickly reduce costs,
increase sales and boost productivity."
"The use of passive UHF RFID technology is an expanding market opportunity
attracting significant user interest within organizations looking to more
effectively manage and track their assets, inventory, and much more,"
states Michael Liard, research director for RFID at ABI Research (Oyster
Bay, NY). "We believe the increased availability of feature-rich passive
UHF RFID IC offerings that are optimized for high performance, such as the
Monza 4 family, is critical to enabling user adoption across a broad range
of applications."
All four Monza 4 tag configurations, Monza 4D, 4E, 4U and 4QT are available
today, and combined with Impinj's industry-leading Monza 3 product, the
Monza family provides a complete range of features (detailed in the table
below) to enable current and emerging applications. Many of the world's
leading RFID inlay manufacturers, including Avery Dennison, Invengo,
SMARTRAC, and UPM Raflatac are currently developing Monza 4-based inlays.
Impinj Monza® 4 Tag Chip Models
User EPC Serialized True 3D(TM) QT(TM)
Model Memory Memory TID Technology Technology
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Monza 4QT 512 128 X X X
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Monza 4U 512 128 X X
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Monza 4E 128 Up to 496 X X
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Monza 4D 32 128 X X
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Monza 3 96
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About Impinj, Inc. Impinj, Inc. is the world's leading technical innovator in developing UHF Gen 2 RFID solutions for both item-level and supply-chain tagging. Impinj draws on its technical expertise and industry partnerships to deliver a wide range of products and solutions comprising high-performance tag chips, readers, reader chips, software, antennas and systems integration. Impinj's products provide unprecedented performance, integration and cost effectiveness to a global customer base across numerous vertical markets with applications including inventory management, asset tracking, authentication and serialization. For more information, visit www.impinj.com. Impinj, Monza, True3D, and QT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Impinj, Inc.
Contact Information: Editorial Contacts: Jim Donaldson Impinj, Inc. 206-834-1091 Jill West Impinj, Inc. 206-834-1110