RFID Journal Announces Mojix Wins First-Ever Best in Show Award At RFID Journal LIVE!

The maker of a new long-range passive UHF reader system edges out Lexmark's RFID laser printer system and Omni-ID's high-performance tag.

New York (PRWEB) April 25, 2008 -- RFID Journal, the world's leading media and events company covering radio frequency identification (RFID), has announced that an independent panel of judges, with input from attendees at RFID Journal LIVE!, has selected Mojix's STAR system, as the winner of the 2008 RFID Journal Best in Show Award, at RFID Journal's sixth annual conference and exhibition, which was held last week at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.

The Mojix STAR system was able to read passive UHF tags, based on EPCglobal's second-generation air-interface protocol, from across the exhibit hall, a distance of about 300 feet--in a room full of RF noise from exhibitors demonstrating their own products in the hall. Mojix says a single STAR RFID interrogator can cover as much as 250,000 square feet.

Mojix was one of 10 finalists selected by an independent panel of judges from more than 40 submissions. Each of the finalists was asked to do a presentation in the exhibit hall, and attendees at the event were asked to rate the products. Five judges chose the winner based on the presentations and the input from attendees.

"Attendees consistently rated Mojix's product as the best of the 10 finalists," says RFID Journal executive editor Paul Prince, who was one of the judges. "And the judges were nearly unanimous in their view that Mojix had the best new product."

Lexmark's RFID UHF Option, an add-on for the Lexmark T640, T642 or T644 monochrome laser printers, , was the runner-up. The RFID option comes with a ThingMagic M5e RFID interrogator and antenna integrated into the printer drawer assembly, allowing customers to use their existing T64x laser printers to encode the RFID tags embedded in labels, documents, cards and stickers.

The second runner up was Omni-ID's Prox passive UHF RFID tag, which is smaller than most tags (35mm by 10mm by 4.0mm when sold as a label) and is designed for high reliability, even around metals and liquids. The Prox RFID tag features a "plasmonic structure"--a layer that reflects an interrogator's RF signal and focuses it on the tag's RFID inlay, rendering it immune to interference from outside materials, including water and metal. The 240-bit EPCglobal Gen 2-compliant tag is designed to deliver 99.99 percent accuracy and reliability. The tag is sold either as a label or in a ruggedized plastic case.

The RFID Journal Awards were created in 2007 to highlight the best RFID projects from around the world. The Best in Show award was added this year to showcases some of the best new products exhibited at RFID Journal LIVE!

"The quality of the products that were selected as finalists was extremely high, and there were many other excellent products exhibited at the event this year," says Prince. "It shows the maturation of the industry, as it responds to the real-world needs of end users."

About RFID Journal LIVE! 2008
RFID Journal LIVE! is the largest and most important RFID event in the world. More than 175 companies exhibited at the 2008 event, and 3,300 people attendedit. RFID Journal LIVE! 2009 will be held April 27-29, 2009, in Orlando, Fla., at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin. For more information, please visit: http://www.rfidjournalevents.com/live/

About RFID Journal
RFID Journal is the leading source of news and in-depth information about radio frequency identification (RFID) and its many business applications. Business executives and implementers depend on RFID Journal for up-to-the-minute RFID news, in-depth case studies, best practices, strategic insights and information about vendor solutions. This has made RFID Journal the most relied-upon and respected RFID information resource, serving the largest audience of RFID decision-makers worldwide--in print, online and at face-to-face events. For more information, visit www.rfidjournal.com.

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