Brief Description
Founded in 1994, Alien Technology is a passive Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) industry pioneer and leading provider of high-quality RFID innovations, technologies, and products. The company has offices in the US, China, Korea, Europe, Brazil, Australia and other parts of Asia, supplying customers worldwid with UHF passive EPCglobal Gen2 and ISO/IEC 18000-6c compliant RFID transceiver chips transceiver chips, tags, inlays and labels, fixed and mobile readers, and related professional services for item tagging, retail/apparel, transportation, life sciences, and many other applications.
The company was co-founded by UC Berkeley Professor John Smith to commercialize an RFID assembly system invented in his lab, dubbed “fluidic self-assembly." As chief technology officer, Smith guided the overall technical architecture and direction of Alien Technology's RFID products, and authored RFID industry standards.
Formerly known as Beckman Display, Inc.
Timeline
- 1994. Company founded
Inventors
Mark Hadley, John Smith, Ashish Verma, Hsi Jen Yeh