How 100+ companies came together to hammer out Gen 2
Back-room alliances, sleepless nights and billions at stake
(This article originally ran in the May 2005 issue of RFIDOperations)
Until Sept. 10, 2003, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had been nurturing the technology called Radio Frequency Identification. MIT’s Auto ID Center was a coalition of nearly 100 companies and five research universities, a sort of “Continental Congress” that included Wal-Mart, Gillette, and RFID technology suppliers. On this September day however, at an Auto ID Extraordinary General Assembly meeting in Brussels, Belgium, the impending handoff to a new organization was announced to its key members. EPC Global was born officially, on October 31 (2003) and the six Auto ID Centers were renamed Auto-ID Laboratories. RFID was going “prime time.”
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