Impinj Extends Support for Japan’s Electronic Tag Initiative at Convenience Stores and Drug Stores
October 07 2019 - 7:00PM
Business Wire
Impinj M700
endpoint IC innovations bring Internet of Things to consumable
items
Impinj, Inc. (NASDAQ: PI), a leading provider and pioneer of
RAIN RFID solutions, today extended its support for electronic
tagging in Japan’s convenience stores and drug stores. Technology
innovations provided by the Impinj M700 endpoint IC family enable
wireless connectivity for individual items, such as food,
beverages, and medications, thereby enhancing inventory visibility
and enabling frictionless consumer self-checkout.
Impinj enables Internet connectivity for billions of everyday
items using RAIN RFID, a battery-free radio technology ideally
suited to identifying, locating, and authenticating items in the
supply chain and in stores. New Impinj M700 ICs leverage Moore’s
Law to provide more functionality and better performance, in a
significantly smaller IC, than any other RAIN RFID IC currently
available.
The Impinj M700 family of endpoint ICs will deliver a
significant step toward enabling connectivity for an estimated 100
billion items per year in Japan:
- Smaller, higher-performing endpoint ICs enable smaller,
higher-performing RAIN inlays that can be embedded into product
packaging.
- Shrinking and enhancing the endpoint IC logic enables
frictionless point-of-sale and RAIN-based loss prevention while
optimizing efficiencies and costs.
The Impinj M700 IC family’s capabilities align with the goals
set in declarations by the Japanese Government, major convenience
store chains, and the Japan Association of Chain Drug Stores to
attach RAIN RFID tags to all items those stores sell in Japan by
2025. Rollouts follow multiple successful pilots in which
convenience stores added RAIN RFID tags to improve inventory
visibility and enable consumer self-checkout.
“As one of the top convenience store chains in Japan, we are
working on digitalization of our retail locations to create the
convenience store of the future,” said Kunitsugu Makino, deputy
senior vice president, Lawson Inc. “Once RAIN RFID technology is
implemented throughout our entire supply chain and in all the
products in our stores, the increased functionality enabled by the
Impinj M700 ICs will give us better item-level inventory
visibility, while also allowing us to deliver frictionless consumer
self-checkout and loss prevention.”
“The quality, performance, and features provided by Impinj ICs
ensure that we can consistently exceed our customers’ expectations,
as the leading RAIN RFID tag manufacturer in Japan,” said Taiho
Nakamura, Naxis COO. “We are very excited about the new innovations
in the Impinj M700 IC family. The better performance and new
functionalities will allow us to deliver the tags that our
customers need today and into the future.”
“We are excited to deliver products that expand the Internet of
Things to encompass every item in convenience stores and
drugstores,” said Chris Diorio, Impinj founder and CEO. “Impinj’s
vision to connect every item in our everyday world to the cloud is
fully aligned with Japan’s convenience store and drugstore
initiatives. Our new family of Impinj M700 ICs shows the path to
embedding 100s of billions of Impinj RAIN RFID ICs into everyday
items.”
About Impinj
Impinj (NASDAQ: PI) wirelessly connects billions of everyday
items such as apparel, medical supplies, and automobile parts to
consumer and business applications such as inventory management,
patient safety, and asset tracking. The Impinj platform uses RAIN
RFID to deliver timely information about these items to the digital
world, thereby enabling the Internet of Things. www.impinj.com
Impinj is a registered trademark of Impinj, Inc. All other
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