Best New Product Development Award: Kovio
Kovio wins the IDTechEx New Product Development Award for its printed silicon RFID platform for item-level intelligence. The company has demonstrated the world's first silicon-ink based 128-bit HF (13.56 MHz) RFID tag. Based on ISO 14443 standards, this product features integrated synchronous analog, logic, anti-collision, and read-only memory blocks. With data rates of 106kbps, this product is 100 to 1000X higher than previously reported printed organic tags. The breakthrough performance is enabled by Kovio's proprietary IC design and high performance silicon transistors - high mobility (~100 cm2/v.s) and low power (CMOS). The product is being sampled by lead customers with volume production to start in Q2 2009. Future products based on this platform will include UHF tags and integration of additional intelligence such as sensors and displays.