Visible Assets and Eagle Eye Innovations BV Launch Plate 20/20

STRATHAM, N.H. /PRNewswire/ — Visible Assets, Inc. (VISIBLE™) announced it has signed an exclusive license agreement with Eagle Eye Innovation BV (EEI) to supply and support Plate 20/20 within the Netherlands. Plate 20/20 is a steel construction-plate visibility system that uses RuBee wireless tags embedded on the edge of steel plates used for temporary roads, soil-erosion prevention, and trench covers. Because of the harsh conditions — steel, mud, and water — RF-based technologies (RFID, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, Zigbee) have proven unreliable. RuBee and Plate 20/20 provide 100% read accuracy in stacks of 30–60 plates, with a minimum ten-year battery life in a MIL-STD-810G sealed rugged package.

“This agreement represents an important milestone for RuBee and our company,” said John Stevens, CEO of Visible Assets. “We have made a major investment in the defense industry where we meet the very high standards for harsh-environment reliability, security, intrinsic safety near explosives and fused ordnance, and human safety… The Plate 20/20 system with EEI is an important new RuBee application example, and diversifies RuBee into the construction industry and Industrial IoT.”

“The construction industry and Eagle Eye have tried many other RF-based technologies, but the steel, mud and water make RF-based systems unreliable,” said Gjalt Loots, spokesperson for Eagle Eye Innovation BV. “Visible Assets designed a custom RuBee tag that is embedded on the edge of a 15mm-thick plate, and works 100% of the time, even underwater… a single RuBee loop antenna around the base can do a fully-automated inventory of stacked plates many times a day.”

The Netherlands rents about 1,000,000 plates each year; the wider European market rents an additional 20,000,000. The plates weigh 725 kg to 3,000 kg and are mission-critical assets at thousands of construction sites across Europe and the US.