Impinj Enhances ItemSense Capabilities, Announces New Monza RAIN RFID Tag Chip for Automotive

Impinj announced enhancements to its ItemSense software to ease the deployment, management and monitoring of RAIN RFID solutions. It also unveiled the Monza 4i tag chip, targeted at automotive applications.
 
“Impinj was front-and-center in drafting the EPCglobal Gen2 V2 protocol and its products are not only compliant with, but take advantage of V2’s capabilities and benefits,” said Chris Diorio, co-founder and CEO of Impinj. “Impinj’s recent Platform enhancements further ease and speed deployment, system management and health monitoring and expand Platform applicability.”
 
ItemSense software enables businesses to quickly and easily integrate ItemIntelligence, the identity, location and authenticity of everyday items, into enterprise applications. ItemSense software aggregates raw RAIN RFID data into real-time business-relevant events. ItemSense also centralizes and automates deployment, management and monitoring of RAIN RFID infrastructure, including Impinj readers and gateways.
 
Impinj has now streamlined RAIN RFID deployment and management via a new ItemSense Management Console (IMC). In addition, Impinj launched a developer website (developer.impinj.com) featuring documentation and tools to aid integrating RAIN RFID data into solutions.
 
Impinj’s new Monza 4i chip offers 256-bit EPC memory and 480-bit user memory for applications that require extended serial numbers, such as Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs), coupled with large user memory. The large user memory supports data logging to track, monitor, time-stamp and record item maintenance, component status and environmental conditions. Monza 4i’s True3D feature allows omnidirectional readability, while its superior interference rejection ensures high performance in noisy industrial environments.
 
“Confidex UHF passive RFID products generally have options for both the Monza 4QT and Monza 4E chip from Impinj. Offering both chips is necessary today as our automotive and manufacturing customers often require expanded user memory to log entries at each production step while a customer managing IT assets will utilize a larger EPC memory bank for asset identification,” said Joe Hoerl, director North America of Confidex.
 
Impinj has now enabled digital life for more than 13 billion everyday items including apparel, medical supplies, automobile parts and more; it connects items and provides ItemIntelligence so businesses can make smarter business decisions, delight customers and drive sales.