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IPICO Sports Announces Bib Tag Solution

Company launches Dual Frequency Bib Tag at the first IPICO Sports North American User Group Meeting

Peoria, Illinois, USA – January 16, 2012 ­ IPICO Sports announced its much anticipated Dual Frequency (DF) Bib Tag solution at the IPICO Sports North American User Group Meeting held in Houston, Texas this week.  The IPICO Sports DF Bib Tags were used with great success in Houston at the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathons on Saturday, January 14. 

IPICO Sports will offer several options for the DF Bib Tag – both an adhesive label and an integrated bib number format.  The integrated bib number will be available in both generic and fully-customized versions and will be delivered with race-ready “bib-to-tag” mapping files.

IPICO Sports President and CEO Gordon Westwater said, “We are pleased to launch this new product offering at our North American IPICO Sports User Group Meeting.  Our customers requested a Bib Tag solution that would work with their existing IPICO Sports Timing Systems.  The performance of our award-winning Dual Frequency sports technology platform provides superior precision, accuracy and reliability.  The DF Bib Tag is a great complement to our current tag portfolio.” 

The IPICO Sports DF Bib Tag was developed under the direction of Marius Van Dyk, IPICO Sports Technical Director. He explained his team’s design intent, “It was important for us to provide a bib number-based option with similar performance characteristics to our IPICO Sports Shoe Tags. With the newly revised X8 DF chip, we were able to develop a bib tag that meets our high standards.  Our customers will be able to use the IPICO Sports DF Bib Tag with their current systems immediately, and we’re certain they will appreciate the performance and ease-of-use.”

The tag is available in 3 single use versions, a fully custom integrated bib tag, a generic integrated bib tag and an adhesive ring tag for application on customer supplied bibs.  Each bib tag order will ship with a bib-to-tag mapping file to facilitate tag distribution and the race timing application.
For further information about this exciting new product, contact IPICO Sports at +1-309-672-6442 or sales@ipicosports.com.

About IPICO Inc.:

IPICO Sports’ next-generation tracking and timing solutions are developed by IPICO Inc. IPICO has succeeded in the RFID sports market due to its unique technology based on the IP-X™ RFID Air-interface Communication Protocol. This technology was developed to overcome the limitations faced by conventional Reader-Talk-First (RTF) protocols in the market. In addition, the patented Dual Frequency technology eliminates signal loss and tag read collision. The Dual Frequency technology works especially well for objects high in liquid, carbon and electronic content, such as the human body. The complimentary superiority of these technologies provides the ability to read multiple tags while dealing with motion, distance, crowding, demanding environmental conditions and a variety of materials – all variables commonly found at many sports activities. Since an initial market introduction in March 2007, IPICO Sports systems are now used in over forty (40) countries, and continue to develop and grow a loyal following throughout the globe.  IPICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Trilon Bancorp Inc. (“Trilon”), an affiliate of Brookfield Asset Management Inc.   For further information, go to www.ipico.com  or www.ipicosports.com