RFID-net, a Dutch RFID system integrator, has selected the Sokymat Logi TAG family of laundry tags for its industrial laundry solution. The process automation system is based on open RFID technology and is being used to upgrade and gradually substitute Motorola's proprietary RFID system that was withdrawn from the market in 2000.
The new system jointly offered by RFID-net and Sokymat consists of an RFID product line for laundry applications based on 13.56MHz ISO 15693 standard readers and transponders and is open to second source tags.
RFID-net developed the integrated system in such a way that a single scan station can read both the old Motorola and the new Sokymat transponders. Therefore, laundries currently using the discontinued Motorola system can now gradually replace the old Motorola tags with the new generation of 13.56MHz Sokymat Logi TAG transponders without disruptions to the system's functionality.
In the Netherlands, major textile rental services and laundries such as Initial Hokatex (Rentokil Initial group) and Lips are some of the companies that have adopted this new solution. More than two million tags and two hundred readers have been successfully installed since 2001.
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