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Company Overview
 

Networking Goods & Assets


SkyeTek transforms traditional RFID into a networking technology enabling goods and assets to participate in a connected world. SkyeTek develops readers that serve as intelligent edge devices and software that binds policies to tagged items. By extending networks to the physical world, customers increase revenue through their ability to predict demand, prevent counterfeiting, and personalize user interactions.

SkyeTek combines intelligent software with an inexpensive hardware platform to provide modern RFID security, distributed policy management and network-ready readers. Enterprises deploy SkyeTek’s solutions to deliver a seamless RFID edge network capable of centralized, real-time management.

Customers


SkyeTek customers are OEMs and Systems Integrators from mid-market companies and Fortune 500 corporations in Healthcare, Retail, Hospitality, Manufacturing and Government. What they share in common is the use of SkyeTek’s technology to create new applications and value propositions for their existing product lines and services in areas such as Access Control, Asset Tracking, Inventory Management, Payment, Patron Management and Product Authentication.

SkyeTek customers seek a common, open architecture for reader software and hardware that makes the task of designing, building, and maintaining an RFID enabled application simple, timely and cost efficient over its lifetime. SkyeTek has delivered and to date has captured over 150 customer design and production wins.

To uniquely meet customer needs, SkyeTek offers:
  • Our Advanced Universal Reader Architecture (AURA)™, specifically developed for the embedded RFID market, provides customers with the capability to embed RFID as a feature in existing products. This architecture represents the next generation of SkyeTek’s modular, open-architected RFID reader platform that was introduced in late 2003.
  • AURA powered SkyeModules™ and ReaderDNA™ reference designs enable customers to design reader technology natively into their products. SkyeModules are the industry’s most space, cost and power efficient readers. The licensing model saves customers 40 to 75 percent over typical reader module prices in the market today.
  • Tagnostic® capability that allows customers to incorporate almost any tag into their products and applications; a revolution to a market dominated by restricted tag and reader systems.
  • Industrial strength encryption and security that assures customers a secure RFID solution.
 
Quick Facts
  • Founded: 2000
  • Headquarters:  Westminster, Colorado
  • Privately Held, Venture Backed
  • CEO: Rob Balgley

 
 
"By creating a modular and horizontal platform that mitigates the cost and complexity of RFID reader hardware, SkyeTek and ReaderWare are a disruptive model for enabling the application of RFID technology to a far more varied set of vertical markets and customer problems." - Brian Garrett, Principal, Palomar Ventures