April 25, 2004

NZ Startup Sandtracker Announces Low-Cost, Low-Silicon RFID Tag

According to COMPUTERWORLD:

"Start-up venture Sandtracker claims to have cracked the $US0.05-per-tag barrier for RFID with a radically different technology which 'doesn't need silicon in quite the same way other tags do,' according to one of Sandtracker's backers.

"Jan Hilder, of financial services software firm Tacit Group, says the breakthrough stems from a "laterally different" idea from other RFID implementations.

"'The competition has concentrated on getting better and better at pursuing the same path. We've taken a completely different path.'" Read more

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