We are pleased to announce that Schmidt & Co., (Hong Kong) Limited won two prizes in Hong Kong RFID Awards organized by Hong Kong GS1. G-BOX and RF Regalia System won Bronze Award and Certificate of Merit, respectively under the “Most Innovative EPC/ RFID Products” category, by their innovative design and application. It further affirms the company’s capacity in the RFID innovation.

G-BOX is a compact sized high performance RFID reader that can read and write RFID tags while receiving, monitoring and processing data. Combining a middleware, a fanless central processor, antenna and USB/Ethernet ports, this invention greatly reduces deployment cost, enhances system’s performance and reliability in industrial environment, and is able to integrate to other RFID applications. Previously, G-BOX was awarded with a Gold prize in Hong Kong ICT Award 2007 for its excellence of low cost deployment.

We are also adopting RFID in laundry service. Timely graduate robes distribution and re-collection is always the big challenge for many schools. RF Regalia System greatly facilitates the entire regalia handling process from storeroom to service counter. The System is able to locate individual items in exceptional accuracy with far lesser resources, freeing frontline staff time to provide a better customer service.

“We are delighted to see our RFID products have won multiple prizes in this couple of years. It reveals that our products are gaining momentum and being increasingly recognized in the industry”, says Mr. Klaus Festl, Managing Director of the company. “With increased maturity of this technology, RFID ought to be applied in a wider context of applications in near future that will give us plenty of rooms to continuously innovate in this area”.

The Hong Kong RFID Awards was held in its first time to recognize pioneering enterprises, which have successfully brought EPC/RFID technologies into their business operations, and to encourage the adoption of EPC/RFID technology in Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta, China. The organizer, GS1 Hong Kong, is a not-for-profit organization, which promotes global standards, best practices and enabling technologies in the arena of global value and supply chain management.