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CO/E-470 runs prize of $250 of tolls to promote sticker tags
Posted on Sat, 2011-12-03 00:06
Denver Colorado's E-470 toll authority is offering a prize of $250 toll credits for a lucky electronic toll enrollee in their new sticker tags. The toller is swapping out hardbody California T21 protocol transponders for the ISO 18000 6C sticker tags. EXpressToll is the brand-name used for new as well as old transponders.
New low price on transponders - $1.25 each for 6C sticker tags
Posted on Thu, 2011-08-25 19:27Denver's E470 toll authority is now using the cheapest transponders we've heard of - 750,000 new ISO 18000 6C sticker tags at $1.25 apiece. They are replacing Title 21 California style hardbodies. The sale of the 6C sticker tags at this price was "part of a package" a Federal Signal officer told us, the other part being supply of their 5402-brand multi-protocol readers.
Neology often offers the cheapest 6C transponders but in the case of E470 we understand Neology quoted around $1.40 apiece.
Utah DOT says Encompass 6 reader reads 6C sticker tags fine - TransCore says supports 6C? (UPDATE)
Posted on Thu, 2011-08-04 22:51
Yesterday we were asked to publish an official Utah Department of Transportation retraction of comments in a report 
(2011-07-26) saying that the TransCore Encompass 6 readers were reading 6C tags poorly compared to the read performance of Sirit IDentity 5100 readers.
Fed Signal/Sirit say Neology patent suit "baseless" "frivolous" - will "vigorously defend"
Posted on Mon, 2011-08-01 12:19
Federal Signal Technologies Group (FSTech) president Manfred Rietsch says Neology's suit alleging violations of a patent on 6C sticker tag-reader system is "baseless" and "frivolous." FSTech's Sirit subsidiary, also sued, was one of just a small group of companies that developed the ISO 18000 6C standard, he notes, and contributed technology to the US RFID consortium, Sisvel, which established 6C as open standard.read more »
Utah DOT is buying ISO 18000 6C sticker tags from Neology for $1.59 apiece, the lowest price we know of that a 
transponder has been sold in the US. A Utah official told us that FSTech/Sirit bid just a nickel more or $1.64. TransCore bid $3.50.
The ISO 18000 6C (6C) sticker tag technology has made another important advance in the world marketplace. Turkey's national roads agency's prime toll collection contractor is signing a contract in which Federal Signal Technologies (FSTech) will supply 6C-based toll equipment in a government directed transition away from the active CEN/TC 278 (CEN) transponders plus near field communications proximity cards presently in use.
Intermec Inc, a former owner of Amtech, the toll tag segment of TransCore, recently demanded that the
Georgia state toll authority (GaSRTA) buy Intermec readers or insist that their vendor buy license rights they claim to hold to multiprotocol readers.
Neology have released a new ISO 18000 6C compliant sticker tag they say is more accurate, has unique security features and works at longer range, as well as being more compact. Called the model 106 the new transponder will sell for about the same price as the model 104 being supplied in some tens of millions to Mexico for electronic vehicle registration - around $1.80 apiece in quantity.
Washington State DOT say they are going with a new family of ISO 18000 6C transponders from Federal Signal/Sirit (FS/S) at the front end of their "Good To Go!" brand electronic tolling. They are presently using eGo Plus sticker tags from TransCore - a proprietary development of the previous generation ISO 18000 6B system.
Mark IV are selling their multi-protocol Janus readers and some IAG E-ZPass style active TDM (time division multiplexing) transponders to OHL (Obrascon Huerte Lain) Concesiones, the toll concessions arm of a big Spain-based toll operator for use in Mexico. OHL will deploy the equipment on new all-electronic tollroads under construction in central Mexico.
