Vancouver, BC – May 29, 2013 

Guard RFID Solutions Inc., an industry leader in 433MHz Active RFID technology has announced the release of its SafeGuard K-12 Safety System, designed to assist personnel in schools to instantly declare Code Red or Code Yellow and automatically notify local staff as well as remote agencies of the threat, and to promptly identify the location from where the alarm was sent. The system can be configured to automatically lock down selective zones within the school in order to secure occupants within vulnerable areas, and to send alerts to staff members equipped with GuardRFID’s bi-directional Staff Badges.

These badges support enhanced functions such as Man Down Detection, Duress Alarms, and bi-directional communications, allowing transmission of coded signals to the badge and annunciation at the badge that an alarm has been received by security personnel. Alarms can be initiated from any location within the facility, and instant notifications dispatched using several methods including using a remote monitoring station, email and pagers, saving significant precious time in notifying appropriate authorities of a potential safety threat. The badges can also be used for controlling access through doors so as to allow entry only after proper hands-free identification is obtained from the system. SafeGuard K-12 Safety is integrated with Video Management Systems, to automatically enable a live view of the location from which an alarm is initiated, as an option.

“In light of the apparent increase in security threats in schools, we feel that we should all contribute whatever we can to enhance the security of our children, teachers and our schools’ ancillary staff”, said Zahir Abji, GuardRFID’s President and CEO. “The SafeGuard K-12 Safety system permits instant notification of a security event simultaneously to public safety agencies and school staff, which enables a more rapid response to a threat and therefore reducing potential harm. Its ability to automatically and swiftly secure the perimeter or selective zones can contain the threat and minimize exposure. Equipping both, students and staff with GuardRFID’s tags can provide critical demographic information to allow for more effective emergency response activities.”

GuardRFID combines Long Range, Proximity, and Direction-of-Travel Detection technologies to positively identify tagged personnel and assets entering or exiting a building, and to detect their presence and location in real-time while inside the building. The system delivers maximum return on investment because the infrastructure can be used for multiple solutions associated with tracking, locating and securing people or assets.About Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.

About Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.

Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial, and Enterprise applications. Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials, and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring, and security solutions—all on one flexible platform. Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada, with its head office in British Columbia and its sales office in West Palm Beach, FL.

GuardRFID Contact:          

Zahir Abji, President & CEO

info@guardrfid.com

Vancouver, BC – April 29, 2013

GuardRFID has received factory certification of the OSDP Interface between its Active RFID Tag Reader and Lenel’s access control panel using the OSDP protocol. This hardware integration provides Lenel’s OnGuard^® access control system users the ability to directly connect GuardRFID’s Tag Readers to the OnGuard access panel to set up portals to detect GuardRFID Active RFID’s tags. The tag’s range of detection is adjustable from two to 30 feet, allowing for “hands-free” access control functionality. The tags can be placed anywhere on people and objects and do not have to be presented at a reader as required with conventional access control systems. The OnGuard system manages Active Tag IDs similar to any other badge ID that is collected from standard proximity card readers.

“GuardRFID has completed required factory testing at Lenel to validate the functionality of its OSDP interface to OnGuard 2012 (version 6.5) and OnGuard 2013 (version 6.6). The integration of GuardRFID’s Tag Reader will allow new and existing OnGuard users to take advantage of enhanced Active RFID-based functionality for perimeter and zonal security,” said Gidon Lissai, director, strategic alliances, Lenel Systems. “We look forward to their continued involvement in the Lenel OpenAccess Alliance Program.”

“We are very excited about the integration of our hardware directly with Lenel’s access control panels,” stated Zahir Abji, president and CEO, GuardRFID Solutions, Inc. “It commoditizes GuardRFID’s Active RFID hardware and allows Lenel’s OnGuard system to take advantage of the unique attributes that Active RFID can provide, taking access control to a higher level of functionality. Besides providing control for personnel flow through portals, features such as asset tracking and loss prevention are available for OnGuard users.”

About Guard RFID Solutions

GuardRFID develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial and Enterprise applications. GuardRFID’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring and security solutions – all on one flexible platform.

GuardRFID Contact:   

Zahir Abji, President & CEO
604.282.7590
info@guardrfid.com
www.guardrfid.com

Vancouver, BC – April 29, 2013

GuardRFID announced today that it has received factory certification of its Argus AllGuard Active RFID platform from Lenel Systems International. The new certification allows GuardRFID to offer interoperability between its Argus AllGuard Platform and Lenel’s OnGuard^® security management software versions 6.5 and 6.6. GuardRFID’s suite of Active RFID based solutions provides real-time location and tracking, as well as security and loss prevention, and the integration between Argus AllGuard and Lenel’s OnGuard ensures seamless and collaborative control of secured perimeters.

“GuardRFID has completed required factory testing at Lenel to validate the functionality of its interface to the latest OnGuard releases for 2012 (version 6.5) and 2013 (version 6.5). The integration of Lenel’s OnGuard access control system with GuardRFID’s Active RFID-based solutions enables tracking and location functionalities at portals as well as within the building itself,” said Gidon Lissai, director, strategic alliances, Lenel Systems. “We look forward to their continued involvement in the Lenel OpenAccess Alliance Program.”

“As our technology platform evolves, we also continue to ensure that the interfaces that we provide with other solutions take advantage of their latest enhancements,” stated Dalibor Pokrajac, vice president, engineering, GuardRFID Solutions, Inc. “The integration with Lenel’s OnGuard allows GuardRFID to focus on its core competency of developing Active RFID technology for precise tracking and location, and in association with OnGuard to provide enhanced functionality such as hands-free access control and rules based personnel and asset security.”

About Guard RFID Solutions

GuardRFID develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial and Enterprise applications. GuardRFID’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring and security solutions – all on one flexible platform.

GuardRFID Contact:   

Zahir Abji, President & CEO
604.282.7590
info@guardrfid.com
www.guardrfid.com

Vancouver, BC – April 19, 2013 

Guard RFID Solutions Inc. and AppLocation Systems Inc. jointly announced the release of their Mobile Active RFID Gateway that combines GuardRFID’s Active RFID Readers and GPS/Cellular Gateways to provide real-time tracking and location capability for tagged items and people while in transit within a vehicle. The Gateway also supports the J1939 interface that can alert maintenance staff of active engine faults, track fuel economy, and provide maintenance notifications by mileage, time or engine hours.

AppLocation’s MobileFusion™ platform is integrated with GuardRFID’s Argus AllGuard™ server to collect tag data for generating reports and providing graphical views of the location and details of tagged items and personnel. By adding in-vehicle gateways to fixed facility RFID deployments, companies can now extend their chain of custody reporting and verification to include in-transit segments and delivery locations.  In addition, personnel status and location can be achieved by utilizing GuardRFID’s Staff Tags.

“Extending tracking, location and security to the wide area completes our vision for end-to-end visibility of materials and personnel”, said Zahir Abji, GuardRFID’s President and CEO. “Users of our solutions now have the ability to continuously monitor the movements of their assets and personnel, regardless of whether they are in the building, on company grounds, or in motion within a vehicle. This development opens up significant opportunities for planning and managing logistics and security for our customers, and takes RTLS to a higher level of utility.”

“We have been working with GuardRFID’s technology for some time now to provide warehousing and yard applications, as an adjunct to our fleet management solutions”, said Gary Hartwig, AppLocation’s CEO. “Materials management requires high tag acquisition rates and the ability to instantly detect tagged items when they approach choke points such as dock doors, and GuardRFID’s 433 MHz based technology platform performs these functions and others extremely well in the kinds of environments that we encounter with our customers. Integration of the system into the wide area enhances MobileFusion’s capability to an unprecedented level.”

About Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.

Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial, and Enterprise applications.  Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials, and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring, and security solutions—all on one flexible platform.  Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada, with its head office in British Columbia sales offices in Chicago, IL and West Palm Beach, FL.

GuardRFID Contact:        

Zahir Abji, President and CEO
info@guardRFID.com
http://www.guardRFID.com

About AppLocation Systems Inc.

Founded in 2002, AppLocation Systems Inc is a Mobile Resource Management firm specializing in location based services, and uses its web-based MOBILEFusion™ platform to track assets wirelessly improving  logistic and supply chain business decisions on land, on water, and in the air – using the latest technology in CDMA/GPRS/Satellite devices, mapping, sensors, RFID, RTLS and wireless network management.

Carrier grade MobileFusion™ links wireless real time asset tracking regardless of locating technology. This single platform delivers end to end supply chain and in-transit visibility, driving the adoption of asset location for supply chain logistics. MobileFusion™ integrates location data, sensors and line of business applications such as billing and order entry direct from handsets.

AppLocation Contact:      
Gary Hartwig, President
info@applocation.net
http://www.applocation.net

Vancouver, BC – March 15, 2013 

Guard RFID Solutions Inc., an industry leader in active RFID/RTLS technology has announced the general release of its Argus AllGuard 3.2 Server platform with enhanced functionality that supports its full suite of RTLS and Security applications within the same infrastructure for healthcare facilities.  This avoids having several disparate networks being used for the different use cases, minimizing initial investment and ongoing maintenance costs. The AllGuard suite of applications includes:

• TotGuard Infant Security – the only solution that supports Umbilical, Tamper Sensing and Cut-Band technology based tags within one system, and offers room level Mother-Baby matching.
• AllGuard Pediatric Security – offering a unique and patented cut-band technology with no exposed metal surfaces that can potentially corrode.
• AllGuard Patient Wandering Protection – available with the option of Perimeter Protection only, or as a full featured RTLS and Perimeter combination.
• AllGuard Asset Tracking and Security – offers the smallest tags available with four year battery life, making them virtually maintenance free.
• SafeGuard Staff Duress – uses GuardRFID’s Staff Tag with Tag Paging, Panic Alarm annunciation and “Man Down” functionality.

The Argus AllGuard platform includes interfaces for a variety of protocols, including LDAP, HL-7, COMP2 Paging and SMTP email notification, and is integrated and certified for collaborative use with leading access control and video management systems.

“We continue to evolve our technology and solutions to provide healthcare facilities the most robust and full-featured solutions possible, while maintaining our vision of having a single platform that provides utility for a broad range of applications”, said Zahir Abji, GuardRFID’s President and CEO. “The Argus AllGuard single platform concept significantly reduces the investment required to deploy multiple RTLS and Security applications. It also allows facilities the flexibility to initially implement one solution and then add other solutions and functionality over a period of time as and when they are required.”

Due to their ease of use, reliability and robustness, GuardRFID’s suite of applications have been selected as the systems of choice by many high profile healthcare facilities. Its tag platform has been designed to be highly resistant to RF noise interference from devices such as smartphones placed in close proximity to its tags, enhancing the security of patients within the healthcare environment, as an example.

About Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.

Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial, and Enterprise applications.  Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials, and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring, and security solutions—all on one flexible platform.  Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada, with its head office in British Columbia sales offices in Chicago, IL and West Palm Beach, FL.

GuardRFID Contact:           
Zahir Abji, President and CEO
info@guardRFID.com
http://www.guardRFID.com

Vancouver, BC – October 26, 2012 

Guard RFID Solutions Inc., an industry leader in 433MHz Active RFID technology has announced the general release of its Evacuation Monitoring and Personnel Accountability solution.  The system is designed to assist in complying with OSHA 1910-38(c)(4) regulations by accurately detecting and locating personnel present within a building during an evacuation event.  The GuardRFID ST-series Staff Tags enable enhanced functions such as Man Down Detection, Duress Alarms, and bi-directional communication allowing transmission of coded signals to the tag wearer including acknowledgement that a duress alarm has been received by security personnel.

“We believe that our solution is the most powerful tool available in the market for visibility of personnel during an evacuation event”, said Zahir Abji, GuardRFID’s President and CEO. “We designed the system with input from a global Fortune 500 company, and several similarly prominent organizations are either testing the system or are highly interested in acquiring it. These companies have tried other technologies such as passive RFID and SMS using cellphones, but none have come close to matching the reliability and functionality of our solution.”

GuardRFID combines Long Range, Proximity, and Direction-of-Travel Detection technologies to positively identify whether tagged personnel enter or exit a building, and to detect their presence and location in real-time when inside the building.  The active RFID Staff Tags also eliminate the information accuracy problems associated with card-swipe or proximity card systems that cannot detect multiple personnel entering as a group or have to  exit as quickly as possible during an event. The GuardRFID system also delivers maximum return on investment because the infrastructure can be used for multiple business solutions including Visitor Management, and Asset Tracking and Security.

About Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.

Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial, and Enterprise applications.  Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials, and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring, and security solutions—all on one flexible platform.  Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada, with its head office in British Columbia and its sales office in Chicago, IL.

GuardRFID Contact:          
Zahir Abji, President and CEO
info@guardRFID.com
http://www.guardRFID.com

Vancouver, BC – August 30, 2012 – Guard RFID Solutions Inc., today announced that its Argus AllGuard RFID solution for RTLS and security is now integrated with Software House’s C•CURE 9000 Security and Event Management System.

Description: The GuardRFID Argus AllGuard RFID platform includes active RFID tags, RFID infrastructure, and server/client software to deliver powerful asset and personnel tracking and security.  Argus AllGuard significantly adds greater awareness and accuracy regarding access control events and the movement of people and assets within facilities in real-time.

The Argus AllGuard and C•CURE 9000 integrated solution offers security functionality such as hands-free access control, presence detection, and monitoring and notification of personnel and asset movement not previously possible without active RFID capability.

Access control and security events detected by the Argus AllGuard RFID platform are seamlessly displayed and acknowledged on the C•CURE 9000 user interface.  Event types are mapped to actions in C•CURE 9000 and can be specified by individual doors or other locations of interest.  The solution allows users to acknowledge system events in either GuardRFID client applications or C•CURE 9000.

“The C•CURE 9000 Security and Event Management System is a powerful access control solution and Software House is a very important player in this market”, says Zahir Abji, President and CEO of GuardRFID.  “We are very excited about the opportunities for our existing and future customers to implement C•CURE 9000 with our active RFID solutions in asset tracking and integrated security including access control.”

“We are pleased to announce the integration between the Argus AllGuard RFID platform and C•CURE 9000,” said Jeremy Krinitt, Senior Product Manager of Integrations for Software House. “This integration offers our customers and system integration partners the ability to implement GuardRFID’s active RFID solutions including Asset Tracking and Integrated Security solutions for infant security, patient wandering protection, and personnel safety.  This provides a significant benefit to the security and visibility of security events within facilities.”

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About Software House

Software House, part of Tyco Security Products, manufactures security and event management systems including the innovative C•CURE 9000. Combined with a suite of reliable controllers lead by the iSTAR Edge IP door control module, Software House technologies are among the most powerful in the industry. Add an unsurpassed integration platform that allows customers to integrate seamlessly with critical business applications, and it’s easy to see why Software House solutions are ideal for security-critical applications.

Tyco Security Products, a business unit of Tyco International, is a unified group of leading access control, video and intrusion brands worldwide.  Operating in more than 40 offices with over 2500 employees, Tyco Security Products’ American Dynamics, Bentel, CEM Systems, CONNECT24, DSC, Kantech, Software House, Sur-Gard and Visonic brands represent more combined years of operating experience in the security industry than any other security products group in the world.  Our security integration platforms, built by our developers from across all product disciplines, allow our customers to see more, do more and save more.  Our solutions today are designed to be compatible with the technology of tomorrow. For more information, visit www.americandynamics.net; www.bentelsecurity.com; www.cemsys.com; www.connect24.com; www.dsc.com; www.kantech.com; www.swhouse.com; www.surgard.com and www.visonic.com.

About Guard RFID Solutions

Guard RFID Solutions Inc. develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial, and Enterprise applications. Guard RFID Solutions Inc.’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials, and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring, and security solutions—all on one flexible platform. Guard RFID Solutions Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada, with its head office in British Columbia and its sales office in Chicago, IL.

Vancouver, BC – August 17, 2012 

Guard RFID Solutions Inc., an industry leader in 433MHz Active RFID technology for healthcare and industrial applications, has announced the release of a new tamper-sensing tag based on a unique and patented cut-band technology designed to alarm in the event of unauthorized removal of the tag worn by a patient or student.

GuardRFID already offers the widest choice of active RFID tags for healthcare security including Umbilical Tags, TotTag dual-tamper sensing infant tags, and standard Patient Tags.  The addition of a tag based on cut-band technology further extends its leadership position and offers healthcare customers worldwide a much-needed solution for tagging high-risk pediatrics and other patients, and offers an attractive solution for other elopement prevention applications.  The new tag uses a specially designed hypoallergenic band that is soft and comfortable on the skin.  The unique tag and band design eliminates exposed metal contacts to improve reliability and safety. Oxidation of metal contacts in traditional cut-band technology can cause failed operation.

“We have introduced the cut-band tag at the request of pediatric hospitals wanting a better patient tagging and security solution than what was currently available in the marketplace.  Although originally designed with Pediatric Protection in mind, this new tag also offers another dimension of security for Infant Security, Wandering Patient Protection, Wandering Resident Protection, and K-12 security, “ said Zahir Abji, President and CEO of GuardRFID.  “We are very proud to be able to expand our customers’ choices of tags for patient security applications.”

GuardRFID’s AllGuard Integrated Security for Healthcare suite consists of Infant Security, Staff Duress, Wandering Patient Protection, Pediatric Protection, and Asset Tracking and Loss Prevention.  All applications within the suite reside on the same infrastructure, allowing users to leverage their deployed system to achieve rapid return on investment.

About Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.

Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial, and Enterprise applications.  Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials, and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring, and security solutions—all on one flexible platform.  Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada, with its head office in British Columbia and its sales office in Chicago, IL.

GuardRFID Contact:          

Zahir Abji, President and CEO

info@guardRFID.com

http://www.guardRFID.com

May 2, 2012 - Vancouver, BC

Guard RFID Solutions Inc., an industry leader in 433MHz Active RFID technology for healthcare and industrial applications, has announced the full release of its latest RFID middleware engine – Argus 3.0 – adding numerous customer requested features and introducing three significant enhancements.

Argus 3.0 is now an Enterprise-class Server enabling multiple facilities to be operated as independent segments from a single server while allowing complete autonomy of each segment. The benefits of a centralized server implementation include increased data and system security, simplified system management, standardization across enterprise network and ultimately reduces operating costs. It also provides the ability to administer the system and monitor security events enterprise-wide from a centralized location. GuardRFID’s current customers are now able to implement solutions, such as its industry-leading TotGuard Infant Security system, within multiple independent units or multiple buildings within a facility and support numerous disparate facilities system-wide.

Support for the new GuardRFID Staff Tag enables a variety of features necessary for applications associated with personnel safety, location and credential validation. The company’s new SafeGuard Staff Duress system was developed in tandem with the Staff Tag to take advantage of GuardRFID’s most advanced 433MHz Active RFID technology, which achieves greater location accuracy, reliable alarm transmission and provides the benefit of real-time 2-way communications. The new Staff Tag features user configurable buttons, paging annunciation, duress alarm activation, and cancellation, ”help is on its way” acknowledgement, man-down warning and alarm, hands-free access control, as well as features that enhance user-convenience such as automatic sign-in and sign-out procedures.

Argus 3.0 additionally provides full software integration with industry-leading manufacturers of access control and CCTV video management systems. By expanding these technology partnerships, GuardRFID is continually advancing the ability of its existing and future customers to achieve the full potential of its 433MHz Active RFID technology for advanced security and asset tracking.

Zahir Abji, President and CEO states, “Our TotGuard Infant Security system and underlying Argus middleware have recently undergone exhaustive audits by several major healthcare systems and we have come out on top in every case with respect to being able to deliver an enterprise-class solution and full IT compliance with no compromises. We are very excited to have been selected as the system of choice by the clinical and security staff at these large and highly-sophisticated healthcare networks and to have been approved as a sole source by their senior IT management.”

About Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.

Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial, and Enterprise applications. Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials, and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring, and securitysolutions—all on one flexible platform. Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada, with its head office in British Columbia and its sales office in Chicago, IL.

April 24, 2012 - Vancouver, BC

IEEE has announced the publication of the 802.15.4f-2012 standard for active RFID and RTLS applications, as an amendment to the existing 802.15.4-2011 standard. Conformance to the standard will now allow interoperability between systems and give end-users a wide selection of vendors, whereas currently the choice has been limited to a single source that supplies a proprietary technology platform. This is expected to significantly spur adoption as it gives the consumer of the technology security of supply and potentially a wide selection of manufacturers to choose from.

GuardRFID was instrumental in developing the narrowband communication protocol for the 433MHz frequency band, which is part of the PHY layer of the standard. This frequency band allows operation of Active RFID devices globally, and is also optimal as it permits longer communication range and lower path loss when compared to higher frequencies. It is also preferred in many application of the technology as it exhibits zero interference with Wi-Fi and ZigBee infrastructures operating in the 2.4 GHz frequency band. This powerful yet highly-efficient protocol is also bi-directional, supports design using low-cost silicon circuitry, and can achieve location accuracy of 2-3 meters. Utilization of this frequency band enables development of efficient, low-power active RFID devices and systems that provide reliable performance, superior ability to work in the presence of metal and fluids, and precise location for a very high population of tags.

Zahir Abji, President and CEO states, “We are very excited about the positive impact that the standard will have on the global 433MHz active RFID industry and I am extremely proud of the GuardRFID engineering team’s role in its creation. We are in a strong leadership position with a large, proven family of active RFID products that will comply with the standard using a simple software upgrade, which should provide comfort to our existing and new customers.”

Dalibor Pokrajac, GuardRFID’s Executive Vice-President of R&D, was one of the primary members of the 802.15.4f-2012 standard group since its inception in 2008. He introduced the 433 MHz PHY, and contributed in the development of the MAC protocol for the standard. GuardRFID has been developing its active RFID technology platform to ensure compatibility with the new standard. All of GuardRFID’s existing industrial and healthcare customers globally enjoy deployments that are already standards-ready and are uniquely positioned to take advantage of industry standardization and interoperability.

About Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.

Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. develops Active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies and products for Healthcare, Industrial, and Enterprise applications. Guard RFID Solutions, Inc.’s products can accurately track and locate equipment, materials, and people for enhanced automation, workflow, monitoring, and security solutions—all on one flexible platform. Guard RFID Solutions, Inc. is federally incorporated in Canada, with its head office in British Columbia and its sales office in Chicago, IL.