CASE STUDY: PRECYSE TECHNOLOGIES CHALLENGE SPECS CHALLENGE Wireless Wakeup Call DISCIPLINES Technology, Manufacturing CHALLENGE AWARD $25,000 SOLVERS ENGAGED 522 SOLUTIONS 30 PROGRAM DURATION 90 days Precyse Technologies produces active RFID tags or “cell phones for things” and needed a way to have these tags activated as products arrived at their destinations while increasing battery life to over 5 years. Precyse needed a solution to allow a deployment with a 100 foot wireless wake-up range instead of the limiting market standard of 10 feet. They understood from the start that taking a traditional approach to R&D could cost well over $1 million, which they preferred to invest in direct marketing and sales. Challenge Solutions Result • Needed a way to wake up active tags as they arr

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