Millennium Tag wins Smart Award for technical innovation

Harold Dodd, managing director of Identec, is pictured here receiving the prestigious Smart Award from Carol Vorderman in March 1998.

Harold Dodd & Carol Vorderman

Bernie Regan, Carol Vorderman, Harold Dodd & Clive Owen

The award has allowed Identec to develop the next stage in the development of its highly acclaimed electronic identification systems. A necessary part of Identec's system is that a Radio "Field" is produced, in which a tag has its identity deduced using a patented dialogue between reader and tag. The natural evolution of this market has been towards larger fields which easily overlap both vertically (in multi-storey buildings) and horizontally (on the same floor). Such overlapping fields cause the tag devices not to be read. This used to limit our market in multi-storey, multi-user buildings. A new range of tags and readers has been developed in which:

• Every floor in a multi-story building can have separate independent Identec systems.
• All tags simultaneously present in an area of overlapping fields can be identified.
• Tag detection speeds and reading range are not reduced.
• There is no physical connection to synchronise the search fields

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