Recognised for its excellence in technology, contribution to society, and the company's impact in the industry, Convergence Systems Limited (CSL), a member company of Chung Nam Corporation, was awarded the Technological Achievement Award for two of its products - the radio frequency identification device (RFID) hand-held reader and its real-time locating system (RTLS).
'I was shocked and humbled,' says Jerry Garrett, managing director, Convergence Systems Limited. 'We are actually very small in terms of the size of our product development team. I would say we have less than 20 engineers who are based in Hong Kong or Shenzhen.'
He says the award and recognition will help motivate technical staff working at CSL in recruitment, benefits the company when working with suppliers and when the company participates in large projects with the government or large corporations.
The company's introduction of a breakthrough CS101 RFID hand-held reader that is able to perform as well as a fixed reader and twice as well as similar hand-held readers available in the market has brought multiple awards for the company since its launch last year.
On the other hand, CSL's RTLS product is designed to take a different approach to its competitors. 'We used what is called time-of-arrival, so it's a lot more like indoor GPS,' says Garrett. 'The advantages are that we can handle complicated indoor environments with much better accuracy, finding a person or object within plus or minus one metre, with virtually no need for calibration and minimal installation time.'
The company has designed and developed the whole wireless protocol stack for its products to go with the time-of-arrival and thus produces innovative products with minimal latency and greater adaptability to various business processes, thus improving the end customer's experience.
'Beyond technological achievement, we were able to provide the customer with a lot of value,' says Garrett. 'Both products have many features and are competitively priced, so the end customer can quickly appreciate the value.'