- Trimble Introduces ThingMagic Mercury6e-Micro RFID Reader Module. Form factor and performance advantages allow customers to add optimized and standards-compliant RFID technology to a great number of devices and solutions, delivering cost savings and time-to-market advantages over alternative methods of embedding RFID.
- Trimble Introduces ThingMagic Astra-EX UHF RFID Reader. Driven by ThingMagic’s high-performance Mercury6e (M6e) module and designed for enterprise and commercial applications, Astra-EX is easy to install and integrate with corporate IT infrastructures and blends well with enterprise lay-outs.
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- Trimble Announces RFID Accessory for Nomad Handheld.
- Trimble introduces the ThingMagic Mercury6 RFID reader. The M6 offers a low-profile form factor, rugged service operating capabilities and the industry’s highest transmit power for a Power over Ethernet (PoE) capable reader.
- Trimble announces the availability of the ThingMagic Mercury6e RFID reader module. Achieving several market firsts , the M6e is the world’s smallest 1 Watt, four port UHF reader module on the market.
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- ThingMagic announces Vega Reader for in-vehicle and indoor/outdoor application development.
- ThingMagic announces embedded reader module components and new API to support rapid development of RFID solutions and a quicker path to ROI.
- ThingMagic co-founder and CTO Yael Maguire is recognized as Young Global Leader by The World Economic Forum.
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- ThingMagic announces the Astra integrated UHF RFID reader, designed for asset tracking in office and commercial environments and having both WiFi and POE capabilities.
- ThingMagic announces the USB RFID reader, a low cost platform for developing and deploying interactive read/write applications.
- ThingMagic raises additional capital from Series A investors and secures In-Q-Tel as an strategic investor.
- ThingMagic partners with Ford Motor Company and Dewalt to provide first RFID enabled trucks in Ford Works Solutions Tool Link.
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- ThingMagic announces the Mercury5e-Compact, an RFID reader module designed specifically for mobile, portable and handheld applications.
- ThingMagic announces the Mercury5e, the industry's first full-power embedded RFID module based on Intel's R1000 chip.
- ThingMagic selected World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.
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- ThingMagic announces Mercury5, the most capable UHF RFID reader platform on the market. The Mercury5 demonstrates unprecedented read rates in very dense deployments.
- The Mercury4 is certified for operation in South Korea.
- ThingMagic named to Red Herring's 100 for the second consecutive year.
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- UK Retailer Tesco announces that it has selected the Mercury4 platform for one of the largest RFID reader orders ever.
- RFID standards body EPC Global launches the 'Generation 2' tag specification. ThingMagic begins a major user information campaign, producing white papers and a DVD. While all other RFID readers became obsolete or need hardware changes, Mercury4 adjusted to the new standard with a simple remote software upgrade, proving the power of ThingMagic's advanced software defined radio technology.
- Technology Review magazine names co-founder Yael Maguire as one of its top 35 innovators under the age of 35.
- ThingMagic takes its first ever round of investment, raising a total of around $21m from investors including The Exxel Group, The Tudor Group, Cisco Systems, Morningside Technology Ventures, Inventec Appliances Corporation and Topline Growth Capital.
- ThingMagic named to Red Herring's 100 North America, a list of privately-held companies playing a leading role in innovating the technology business.
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- ThingMagic becomes one of the first profitable RFID companies in the world. Other RFID companies begin making 'agile' readers of their own. A second manufacturing partnership, with Omron of Japan, was announced, and ThingMagic's first Intel-based reader, Mercury4, was launched. The Boston Globe surveyed New England's RFID cluster and declared: 'the best positioned local company is ThingMagic'.
- ThingMagic introduces the Mercury4e, a protocol agile, high-performance, embedded RFID reader module. This product rapidly assumes the leading market position in the printer and encoder market.
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- ThingMagic presented a landmark paper on the Agile RFID readers to the Auto-ID Center's sponsors, and built an improved Mercury2 for the Auto-ID Center's field tests and evaluation kits.
- When Mercury3 was introduced ThingMagic licensed the manufacturing rights to ADT Sensormatic, and announced a collaboration with Intel to develop RFID readers using Intel's XScale family of network processors.
- ThingMagic's co-founder Ravi Pappu named to Technology Review's list of top 100 innovators under the age of 35.
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- MIT's Auto-ID Center gave ThingMagic its hardest problem to date: create the RFID reader of the future - a device that could talk to any RFID tag, on any radio frequency; that could integrate seamlessly with the Internet; that was capable of intelligence at the edge of the network; and that would be very cheap to make in large volumes. Many experts thought such a device was impossible.
- ThingMagic delivered a working prototype, called Mercury 1, in November 2001. This RFID reader read the first EPC Class 1 Gen 1 tag, demonstrating interoperability in the EPC standard for the very first time.
- ThingMagic pioneers the use of software-defined radio in RFID.
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