Thomasville Furniture Selects ODIN technologies for RFID Compliance
April 11, 2005

ODIN leads design, deployment and certification for RFID program

Thomasville, NC – Thomasville Furniture Industries, Inc. today announced that it has partnered with ODIN technologies to lead its RFID compliance program for its Creative Interiors division for customers such as Wal-Mart & Target. ODIN technologies is the leader in the physics of RFID testing, deployment and certification and has worked with more Target, Wal-Mart and DoD suppliers any other RFID integrator.

Thomasville VP/CIO Terry Bargy commented, “Thomasville partnered with ODIN technologies because of their best in class RFID infrastructure expertise. ODIN technologies' team simply knows more about tags, readers and getting compliant with RFID mandates than anyone we evaluated. What has impressed us most is the holistic approach for solution and process design and how their experience in other deployments has guided us to a practical, measured investment that can scale as volumes increase. Adopting RFID can no doubt be disruptive. ODIN technologies has taken the hassle out of our RFID compliance program and reduced our project risk.”

ODIN technologies President & CEO Patrick J. Sweeney II commented, “Thomasville Furniture has set the standard for the furniture industry for many years. As a pioneer in RFID adoption they are continuing to lead the industry with a long-term view of employing RFID as a competitive advantage. ODIN technologies is employing our well-honed physics and process based RFID deployment methodology to meet Thomasville's near-term compliance needs and long-term efficiency objectives. Thomasville will have the first fully certified and supported RFID compliance deployment for Target further cementing its industry leadership in yet another area.”

In designing and deploying Thomasville Furniture's RFID solution, ODIN technologies has leveraged a number of its proprietary tools and the leading commercially available hardware and software. For tag selection, ODIN technologies' Trifecta tag testing software was employed as was another ODIN RF measurement tool for deployment certification. Other components include: Accusort is providing mobile tagging stations with Zebra printers for tag commissioning and printing; reader portals are being deployed using ODIN technologies' Ruggedized RFID Racks; RFID middleware is being provided by Shipcom Wireless.