IEPER, Belgium, May 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Melexis and Phase IV
Engineering have joined forces to create new RFID wireless sensing
solutions for difficult to solve sensing applications. Based on the
Melexis MLX90129 HF RFID enabled sensor tag IC and Phase IV's
sensor tag expertise, any resistive sensor application requiring
contactless battery-less sensing or data logging of temperature,
pressure, strain, humidity, light, etc, can now be addressed.
For over eighteen years Phase IV Engineering has been engaged in
research, development and production of both passive and active
wireless sensing and monitoring products. Originally focused on low
frequency RFID sensor tags, they have extended their expertise to
the high frequency range (13.56MHz). As an innovative player in the
semiconductor business, Melexis has promoted sensor tag IC's since
the early 2000's and introduced the versatile MLX90129 in 2009.
"When we started to promote the MLX90129, we primarily targeted
the cold chain monitoring market and we are meeting great success
in this area" said Gilles Cerede, Product Line Manager at Melexis.
"But we have a lot of customers outside of cold chain telling us
that the MLX90129 is the ideal IC to address their applications,
like sensing moving parts inside a sealed cavity or embedding
sensors within a material. For these specific requests, it is
obvious that Phase IV is the right company to turn these challenges
into solutions."
Scott Dalgleish, COO at Phase IV
Engineering, commented, "Phase IV's real core competency is
providing complete sensing solutions for the wireless and embedded
sensing problems that customers from a very wide variety of
industries bring us. With the MLX90129, we can very effectively
provide great solutions to many sensing projects we would have
previously turned-away. The advanced features of the MLX90129
opened up many new markets for us - so we eagerly embraced it."
Melexis will demonstrate a Phase IV temperature sensor tag based
on the MLX90129 at Sensor & Test 2010 in the Hall 12, on the
Melexis Booth, (#426).
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Rik Moens
Marketing & Communications Professional Europe
Phone: +32-13-670-795
Mobile: +32-485-88-94-12
E-mail: rmo@melexis.com