please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article is an orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . november 2013 the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources vilant systems news newspapers books scholar jstor free images march 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message vilant systems oy type private industry rfid systems founded 2002 headquarters espoo finland key people ville kauppinen chairman of the board co founder of vilant antti virkkunen country manager vilant systems ag & co founder peter hietala country manager vilant systems scandinavia panu virtanen chief operations officer arlinda sipil director marketing antti k ns l director products products vilant device manager vilant visibility manager vilant train analyzer vilant tracker vilant smart gate vilant railway reader unit number of employees 46 website www.vilant.com vilant systems oy is a privately held technology company headquartered in espoo finland . vilant was founded in 2002 by antti virkkunen and ville kauppinen . vilant provides end to end rfid information systems for industrial especially manufacturing logistics . vilant has delivered installations to 600 different sites in 30 countries . 1 contents 1 growth 2 area of business 3 see also 4 references 5 external links growth edit vilant has been nominated as finland s 3rd fastest growing young technology company in 2006 and finland s 7th fastest growing technology company in 2008 by deloitte consulting . in 2011 vilant ranked 18th on the same list with 5 year growth being 444 % . 2 3 vilant has won the emea mobility innovations award by motorola in 2006 . 4 vilant systems is co founder and member or rfid lab finland . rfid lab finland is an industry association that brings together vendors and end users of rfid technology . 5 in 2011 vilant was selected as a finalist for red herring s top 100 europe award . 6 vilant has offices in espoo finland gothenburg sweden and bern switzerland . in 2011 vilant acquired swisscom auto id services ag in switzerland . area of business edit vilant systems provides information systems that make use of radio frequency identification technology rfid . the systems developed by vilant exploit rfid technology in the monitoring of a corporate logistics processes . they enable the automation of movement transactions of transportation units in real time using rfid tags and rfid readers . transportation units can be roller cages containers or different raw material units . 7 areas of application are industrial supply chain operations 8 industrial asset tracking 9 personnel and vehicle tracking 10 11 12 13 apparel retail automation 14 15 customers include abb stx europe nokia w rtsil swiss post and volvo . 16 key business partners are sap microsoft and upm raflatac . 17 18 19 see also edit rfid supply chain management auto id references edit archived copy . archived from the original on march 4 2009 . retrieved march 17 2009 . vilant founders and management check url value help . archived copy . archived from the original on february 8 2007 . retrieved april 30 2009 . deloitte fast 50 rising stars 2006 check url value help . archived copy . archived from the original on january 8 2009 . retrieved april 30 2009 . deloitte fast 50 2008 check url value help . motorola enterprise mobility awards 2006 . rfid lab finland members . archived copy . archived from the original on january 3 2012 . retrieved january 15 2012 . red herring 2011 europe finalists check url value help . archived copy . archived from the original on february 2 2008 . retrieved march 17 2009 . tekes article on vilant systems 21.12.2007 check url value help . archived copy pdf . archived from the original pdf on december 22 2009 . retrieved march 17 2009 . abb press release 4.4.2005 check url value help pdf . archived copy . archived from the original on february 2 2008 . retrieved march 17 2009 . tekes article on vilant systems 21.12.2007 check url value help . rfid journal article 7.11.2007 . rfid monthly article 12 2008 . archived copy . archived from the original on january 14 2010 . retrieved march 17 2009 . more rfid article 12.12.2008 check url value help . archived copy pdf . archived from the original pdf on august 21 2010 . retrieved march 17 2009 . rfid nordic magazine 12 2007 check url value help pdf . rfid journal article 10.12.2007 . archived copy . archived from the original on october 5 2008 . retrieved march 17 2009 . rfid update article 16.11.2007 check url value help . archived copy . archived from the original on june 26 2009 . retrieved march 17 2009 . list of rfid case examples on vilant homepage check url value help . sap partnership . articles with dead external links % 5d % 5d % 5b % 5bcategory articles with dead external links from july 2016 % 5d % 5d % 5b % 5bwikipedia link rot permanent dead link % 5d % 5d % 5b % 5bcategory articles with permanently dead external links % 5d % 5d microsoft partnership check url value help . upm raflatac partnership . external links edit vilant systems rfid journal vilant systems association memberships epc global rfid standards organization rfid lab finland rfid nordic rfid tribe this technology article about a corporation or company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vilant systems & oldid 739003437 categories supply chain software 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