Is Stanley Black & Decker planning another venture into the RFID sector? It looks like that might be the case. Published reports say that Stanley Black & Decker is in the final stages of working out a deal to acquire Aeroscout Ltd. for as much as $250 million. It wouldn’t be a total shock to [...]
Sector: Entertainment Savings: $1 Million-plus Submitted by ThingMagic Disney is relying on RFID to make the Magic Kingdom even more enchanting – especially for its cast members. The theme park has deployed an RFID solution from ThingMagic to track $100 million worth of costumes worn by the likes of Cinderella, Mickey Mouse and others. By [...]
Metsä Group, a provider of tissue and cooking papers, board, pulp and wood products, is deploying RFID to better manage its pulp supply chain and order efficiency. The company hopes that adopting RFID will revolutionize the pulp industry as other suppliers deploy the technology. The development is seen as a major advancement in the pulp [...]
Her Majesty the Queen received a primer about the benefits of RFID technology during a visit to the University of Exeter in the UK last week. Queen Elizabeth II was briefed about a joint project between The University and QinetiQ. The goal of the project is to improve the accuracy of RFID when it comes [...]
The Orangeburg, S.C. Department of Public Utilities has tagged 4,000 utility poles with RFID tags, and hopes to tag an additional 5,000 this summer. The largest municipal electric utility in South Carolina stands to boost revenues by affixing tags to its assets in the field. Tagging assets like telephone poles and generators at substations is [...]
Skiers who fork over $10,000 apiece for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s Gold Pass lift ticket will receive the additional benefits of RFID technology next season. The USSA announced this week that its Gold pass, which provides unlimited, transferable access to National Ski Areas Association resorts coast-to-coast, will become the first pass in the [...]
We recently published a case study about how the Agricultural Bank of China is using RFID to track money bags. When you think about it, tracking large sums of cash is a natural for RFID. So it should come as no surprise that the UK-based game show Million Pound Drop is using RFID to track [...]
Sector: Aerospace Savings: $3-4 million Airbus has always been a leader when it comes to RFID innovation. As of last year, Airbus has deployed nearly 20 industrial projects in the “non-flyable” category, ranging from warehouse logistics to tooling management and work-in-progress tracking. According to a recent issue of Fast 47 magazine, which is produced by [...]
Chinese consumers are demanding new ways to authenticate products as concerns about counterfeit products rise in that country. For example, more than 150 million bottles of liquor will be tagged this year in the APAC region in an effort to verify product authentication. But liquor and consumer goods aren’t the only products being tagged with RFID. [...]
RFID is being used in more and more ticketing applications at major sporting events, and the Washington Nationals are the latest to make use of the technology. The team is piloting RFID smart cards with 300 season ticket holders this season. According to a report in the Sports Business Journal, the club plans to roll [...]