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, thus enabling complete RFID system solutions.
Impinj products provide unprecedented performance, integration, and cost effectiveness to a global customer base, in applications across numerous vertical markets, including apparel, inventory management, asset tracking, authentication, and serialization. Impinj was established in 2000. It is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, and has sales offices worldwide. Impinj has over 130 employees.

Impinj is continuously innovating, as evidenced by its numerous patented or patent-pending technologies. For example, the newest Monza® 4 tag chips utilize the innovative privacy protection features of Impinj's patent-pending QTTM technology. This gives Monza 4 tags a unique ability to maintain two data profiles to support protection of business-sensitive data and consumer privacy. Additionally, Impinj Speedway® Revolution and Speedway xPortal™ readers have innovative Autopilot features that automatically optimize the RFID reader's operation for its environment, simplifying reader deployment. These innovations and more are why Impinj continues to drive adoption within the RFID industry.

As a Silver Partner of the METRO GROUP Future Store Initiative, Impinj participated in a pilot project focused on the application of RFID at the consumer-goods level. Working together with partners, Impinj developed an end-to-end RFID solution in the menswear department at Galeria Kaufhof in Essen. The project simplified retail workflows by applying a uniform RFID infrastructure based on UHF Gen 2 tags, readers, and antennas at various points throughout the store.
The real,- Future Store also houses Impinj’s RFID solutions. In the butchery, METRO GROUP uses Impinj’s innovative RFID tags, readers, and antennas to ensure complete quality control by guaranteeing freshness, increasing customer safety and efficiently managing inventory of meat products. With such successful deployments, Impinj has positioned itself as the leading innovator in item-level UHF RFID solutions.

Impinj’s family of Speedway® readers delivers accuracy, reliability and adaptability for the most challenging environments. The industry’s highest performance readers include Speedway Revolution, which automatically optimizes the reader’s operation to its environment-delivering peak performance at all times. The Speedway xPortal™ integrated portal reader incorporates the Speedway Revolution reader and Impinj’s Dual-Linear Phased Array antenna technology, yielding the industry’s smallest, most flexible, and cost-effective RFID portal solution. METRO GROUP has deployed Speedway readers in its real,- Future Store butchery and Galeria Kaufhof menswear department.

The Monza transponder was the first UHF Gen 2 chip to receive EPCglobal certification when it was launched on the market in 2005. It is characterized by a flexible operating range, high read rates and reliable operation. In combination with the Speedway reader and Impinj’s near-field antennas, the chip achieves such high sensitivity that identification of stacked goods in the near field poses no problem at all. And with the new Monza 4 tag chip family, featuring the innovative privacy levels of QT technology and tag orientation insensitivity achieved through True3D antenna technology, Impinj has set a new standard in RFID. Monza transponders are used by METRO GROUP in the butchery of the real, -Future Store to monitor inventory.

Paul Garner-Evans
Sales Director- EMEA & India
Phone: +44 115 98 31 504
E-mail:  paul.garner@impinj.com
 www.impinj.com