The Canadian company’s RFID Pilot Express program is based on the EPC Global Gen 2 protocol, which is expected to be ratified as the first global RFID technology standard next year by the International Standards Organization.
The packages promises that within 30 days or fewer it would enable companies to run Gen 2 pilots that would meet RFID mandates from Wal-Mart and other major retailers, as well as the US Department of Defense.
The Gen 2 protocol is clearly going to accelerate RFID adoption, but organizations need the tools to get started, said SAMSys chief executive Cliff Horwitz.
The starter kit includes SAMSys’ newest RFID reader, two antennas to read RFID tags, Gen 2 software, sample Gen 2 tags from Texas Instruments and SAMSys RFID application programming interface for developers.
Ontario-based SAMSys said it would sell the kit for a limited time at an introductory price of $1,999, which it said is roughly the cost of purchasing the components separately.
