Making Item Level Visibility a Reality

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The Sensormatic iREADTM Platform

• Making Item Level Visibility a Reality

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Sensormatic History in Retail

• Sensormatic
• More than 20 years experience in RFID and over 40
  years experience as an industry leading provider
  of vital retail loss prevention solutions
• Developed technological solutions to help
  retailers solve their challenges
• Recognized the shortcomings with item level
  technology for retailers and realized that there
  was no system that allowed perpetual monitoring
  of product movement

• RFID in Retail
• Creatively used the Gen 2 standard to advance the
  adoption of RFID at the item level by delivering
  a platform to benefit retailers hurdles for
  adopting RFID
• Sensormatic launched the innovative iREAD
  platform
• Item Level Intelligence product suite includes
  the iREAD platform, hard tags, detachers and
  other POS readpoints

Infrastructure costs Cost per
readpoint Installation costs
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Why is iREAD Breakthrough RFID Innovation?

• Provides foundation for a single infrastructure
  integrating EAS, RFID and other sensor
  technologies to improve inventory control
• Highly scalable, easily deployable perpetual
  inventory system that is backwards compatible
  with existing EPC Gen 2 readers and tags
• Single coaxial cable carries RF signals and DC
  power for the readpoints
• Individual readpoints configure themselves using
  standard commands hundreds of readpoints may be
  driven by one reader port
• Configurable to almost any retail display
• Simplifies Total Cost of Ownership, providing the
  best Return on Investment to the retailer

iREAD platform is adaptable to complex retail
displays
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iREAD on the Retail Selling Floor

• Sensormatics worldwide presence enabled retail
  partnerships for Item Level Intelligence
  advancements
• Karstadt, one of Germanys top retailers, has now
  deployed the Sensormatic iREAD Platform to
  achieve inventory visibility, price management
  and item location

• Operational Benefits of iREAD
• Efficiencies are realized by enhancing customer
  experiences with product availability
• Maximizes retailer employees working hours with
  optimized processes
• Drives sales floor Intelligence information flow
  back into the supply chain providing data
  accuracy
• Works in verticals beyond apparel, allowing
  efficient store operations through inventory
  visibility, not achievable using barcode or other
  methods

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Item Level Intelligence Dual Technology Tag
Detacher System

• The Sensormatic hard tag platform is globally
  recognized as a loss prevention technology
• Dual technology tags enhance our capabilities to
  maximize both the EAS and RFID technologies, by
  providing item level security and item level
  visibility 
• Single, reusable sensor carrying both RFID and
  EAS intelligence attached to apparel items
• Sensor is removed at point-of-sale by integrated
  detacher that reads RFID data before releasing
  carrier
• Solution preserves RFID inlay integrity,
  facilitating 250 cycles while improving store
  operations and dramatically reducing product cost
  to lt 0.01/use

Dual Technology Hard Tag
Dual Technology Detacher
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iREAD Platform Layout