Flexstr8 Inc. – Combined customer and supplier development efforts

Flexstr8 Inc. is a US-based company with a long history of RFID tag production.

Intelligent RFID tags with multiple sensors

Flexstr8 Inc. learned about Presto’s RFID ASIC design Thor, which aims to be a wireless RFID connection to sensors. Thor has an integrated  microcontroller, temperature sensor, and 16-bit ADC.

Flexstr8’s strategy is to develop and supply new intelligent RFID tags with multiple sensors on-board. One example is a temperature logging smart label. Flexstr8 supplies prototypes as well as volume deliveries with a short turn-around time. Their focus is on medical, food, and similar applications.

Flexstr8 and Presto saw it as beneficial to combine engineering resources at Presto for a limited time in order for one of Presto’s Field Application Engineers (FAE) to support real projects together with Flexstr8 engineers. This way, Flexstr8 engineers were able to manage their fast development process themselves with a faster response to customers as result.

Flextr8’s development site is located in Los Angeles, California. Low-cost production lines in China manufacture the smart labels. Flexstr8's CTO, Eric Casavant, arrived from at Presto Los Angeles on a Wednesday, and by Friday he was fully trained to use Thor and its possibilities in Flextr8’s development site in LA.

Thor is available from Presto as bare dies, bumped dies, packaged devices, and with or without firmware installed.

Presto offers similar training programs to all of our Thor customers. The duration is usually three working days.