Voyantic Tagsurance® 3 is the new generation production testing system that will immediately replace Voyantic Ensurance.
Today Voyantic announces the end-of-life schedule for Voyantic Ensurance as follows:
The last order date for Voyantc Ensurance will be September 30th, 2022.
There are no planned software updates for Ensurance, last Ensurance version is 2.5. There will only be critical patches made if necessary.
For new systems ordered after this announcement, it is strongly suggested that an upgrade plan is made for upgrading the Ensurance systems to Tagsurance 3 when RAIN encoding will be available in Voyantic Tagsurance 3. Upgrade cost may apply, details are to be discussed with Voyantic sales.
Support and service and spare part availability for Ensurance will continue until the end of 2025.
What about RAIN and NFC encoding?
RAIN encoding
We are working towards bringing the RAIN encoding to Voyantic Tagsurance 3 during 2023.
NFC encoding
We are evaluating market potential regarding NFC encoding. NFC Encoding is not currently on the product roadmap.
Saturday, Feb 19, 2022, the city of Sparta in Greece witnessed a staggering performance by one of the best female ultrarunners in the world. Finnish ultrarunner Noora Honkala broke four national records in one single run. Her result was all time 3rd in the 12h race global rankings.
Voyantic has supported Noora in her professional athlete journey since 2017.
The first ever SPARTA CITY ULTRA took place in the Main Street of Sparta, on a two kilometer long loop track. A total of 88 runners participated in the 6h, 12h and 24h races.
Noora started fast by crossing the first marathon at 3:02, and the 50 km at 3:39.32, breaking her first national record. At the 6h mark she had reached 79.00 km, breaking another national record. Not slowing down she passed 100km mark with a time of 7:41.54 (another national record). At this point she was under the world record pace for 12h race. Unfortunately, closing at the 8h mark her stomach started to throw dark skies over her run, forcing her to stop for few times. She tried to keep up the pace but at the 10h mark her stomach forced her to slow down rapidly. Even so Noora held her “slow” pace to the end and finished at 145.400km in 12h — Breaking the 12h national record and putting her the third (3) best performance in all-time world ranking.
Whoever witnessed the race saw a spectacular performance and what ultrarunning is all about. There is plenty more to be seen from Noora!
We have just released new software and firmware versions for Tagformance Pro UHF and HF. The new versions are available for download for existing customers with an active Support and Maintenance contract.
Tagformance Pro is the industry standard solution for RAIN RFID and NFC testing and measurement. The latest releases bring further improvements to measurement accuracy with the support for the new and RF-friendlier C50 and C100 cabinet rotation systems. The new version includes all the latest ARC categories, helping our customers reduce risk and save time with the complete ARC pre-compliance testing capability. The new versions also include several improvements to the system usability.
We continuously develop the Tagformance measurement and testing solution to ensure our customers are able to maintain high-quality standards with full visibility into tag performance and to gain a competitive edge with accurate data and tools that support the latest technology. Voyantic Tagformance is used in UHF and HF RFID tag design, deployment, item tagging, protocol testing, technical sales, and academic research.
I am the Co-founder and General Manager of Voyantic, a company that specializes in RFID test and measurement solutions. Before starting Voyantic in 2004, I worked as a researcher at the Helsinki University of Technology focusing on passive RFID sensing for moisture in building structures.
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Voyantic, the global leader in performance measurement solutions for RFID (radio frequency identification), is proud to announce that they have started marketing co-operation together with Noora Honkala, a 25-year-old Finnish ultra runner.
Ultramarathon, also called ultra running, is any long-distance running race longer than the traditional marathon length of 42.195 kilometers. Despite of her young age compared to most ultra runners, Noora Honkala already holds the National record for both 12-hour and 24-hour running. She is also the youngest woman ever to finish Spartathlon, a 246-kilometer ultramarathon race held annually in Greece.
“The new co-operation with Voyantic enables my comprehensive and professional sports career. Ultra running is a very demanding sport and to succeed on it on top level, one needs to invest in it full time. Versatile practicing in good conditions is in key position.” explains Noora Honkala. “Now I am able to plan long term and execute my season in the best possible way to succeed in my future goals; the World Championships of 100 kilometer running in 2018, and the World Championships of 24-hour running in 2019.” she rejoices.
“We are excited about the co-operation with Noora as we share the same values of long term commitment and dedication to reach ambitious targets. Another common factor for Noora in sports and for Voyantic in business is the importance of service and maintenance team to enable and ensure continuous high performance under any circumstances.” says Harri Tulimaa, Vice President of Sales at Voyantic.
Voyantic is the global leader in performance measurement solutions for RFID. The company started delivering Tagformance Laboratory measurement systems in 2007 and Tagsurance Production testers in 2011. Since then our systems have been delivered to 33 countries in 5 continents. Over the years the Voyantic offering has been extended from UHF to cover also HF/NFC frequencies and increased functionality for application testing, protocol analysis and encoding.
Voyantic is proud to announce that the company recently reached a remarkable milestone, when the 500th RFID test system produced by the company was delivered to Datamars SA. Datamars has made large use of both Voyantic lab equipment (Tagformance) and test production equipment (Tagsurance) since 2012.
During the last years, Datamars’ Laundrychips™ have continuously outperformed the market growth – especially after the introduction of UHF ones – thanks to constant innovation and systematic focus on quality that is widely recognized by the company’s customers. A fundamental contribution to Datamars transponders’ quality has been provided by Voyantic test equipment in both design and production phase (performance characterization and reliability tests).
“Thanks to the brilliant results we got, in the last years we kept on improving the performance of our tags and the reliability of our production lines, in order to face the new challenges coming from the market.” says Antonio Gallizzi, UHF Project Manager at Datamars. “Voyantic is a reference point in the RFID world and over the years they strengthened our ability to analyze both the tag design and the production quality control.”
During the design phase of Datamars products, Tagformance provided fundamental information (such as the transponder frequency response, both in single read and in bulk), thanks to which the company made right decisions regarding the new product up to the slightest detail. With Tagsurance systems Datamars can guarantee the electrical performances of 100% of its UHF products, with a clear advantage in terms of quality perception of the end user.
“We appreciate having had Datamars as our valued customer during the past 5 years. It has been a pleasure to see Datamars decisively investing in RFID quality and utilizing Voyantic solutions from tag design and performance verification all the way to high volume production testing” says Harri Tulimaa, Vice President of Sales at Voyantic.
The 500th Voyantic system was delivered to Datamars production facility in Thailand, where several Voyantic testers have been integrated in the production process. To celebrate this milestone, on June 27th 2017 Mr. Harri Tulimaa handed over a memento to the Datamars team in Lugano, Switzerland as a token of appreciation and dedication for RFID quality that both companies embrace and foster in their strategy and operations.
Fore more information about Datamars, please visit www.datamars.com.
Tagformance Pro was launched in 2015 with a target to cover all measurement capabilities and functionalities as in prior Tagformance lite product, but also providing a more powerful platform to build future development on. Since the launch date of Tagformance Pro, the product has proven itself to be a superior and more attractive tool for RFID measurements, that today meets and clearly exceeds the performance of its predecessor.
Today Voyantic announces end-of-life schedule for Tagformance lite as follows:
Last order date for Tagformance lite will be June 30th, 2017
Tagformance lite software updates are available until the end of 2019
Additional Tagformance lite software suites and commercial measurement functionalities available today, will be available for purchase until further notice and at least until the end of 2019
Maintenance programs for Tagformance lite continue to be available until further notice, but with a modified content starting 2020, as the software updates are not delivered after 2019
Support and service for Tagformance lite will continue until the end of 2022.
Voyantic offers the possibility for Tagformance lite users to replace their measurement device with Tagformance Pro at a campaign price. Please contact Voyantic sales or your local distributor for further information.
