18th May 2010
Thanks to all of you who came to visit us at IFSEC!
The 2010 IFSEC conference in Birmingham, 
UK last week was truly a wonderful event. RFID technology continues developing and unfolding globally in truly amazing and exciting ways and it is even more exciting to be an integral part of it.
It was also a pleasure for all of us to visit with so many of you who are our old friends - and customers - and to meet so many new ones. For those of you who are newly acquainted with Idesco® or just getting to know us, please know we look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship. We tend to think of our customers as extended family.
And now - to all our avid IFSEC football team fans - and rivals: however delighted we were to have fared so well (3rd place) in the annual IFSEC football match - we are feeling just as motivated to improve our standing next year. To all our competition - stand forewarned - we're aiming for championship next year!
But seriously, we truly want to offer a big THANK YOU to Birmingham and the UK for its hospitality, to all who work tirelessly year round to make IFSEC possible, to all our current customers and subscribers who stopped by to visit, - and to all you prospective customers who are considering Idesco® for your scalable identification needs. Again, thank you so much - or as we say in Finnish, "Kiitos Paljon!"
Revisiting the Idesco® EPC Reader
With Idesco’s modern and innovative EPC reader you can create secure, cost-effective and user-friendly identification applications for vehicle identification (AVI), logistics systems, access control and even limited inventory control. The Idesco® EPC Reader is a passive long-distance UHF RFID reader, compliant with European UHF (ultra-high frequency) standards.
In its basic configuration, Idesco’s EPC Reader employs
an internal, circularly-polarized antenna for interrogating tags presented at any angle. However this reader may also be configured with either an external antenna or both the internal and external antenna. When the EPC Reader is configured with two antennas, both may transmit and receive data/information simultaneously - or one antenna may be programmed to transmit while the other receives.
True to form, Idesco’s EPC reader is configurable to a variety of communication interfaces (e.g. Wiegand, RS232-485, Ethernet-IP67, 6LowPan, etc.) and with an enviable array of security options for easier integration into your existing system. The EPC Reader provides four I/O ports for addressing peripherals and is engineered to allow reliable deployment both indoors and outdoors. Additionally, Idesco® EPC tags can be customized with both EPC and MIFARE® enabling a single card to provide both vehicle and personal identification.
Easy to install, the EPC Reader initiates polling automatically (by default) upon being powered up; it does not require polling commands to be entered first. However, it is also configurable to await an activating command from an external system. Some ideal deployments for the Idesco® EPC Reader include - but are not limited to - automatic vehicle identification (e.g. parking access control, toll tracking, entry gates, harbour moorings), logistics centers (pallet and case tracking), long distance access control (sequestered reader) and certain inventory control applications.