In case you missed this week’s lead story in RFID 24-7, we’ve posted it here: Tremendous progress has been made when it comes to the ability of RFID technology to work on metal and with liquids. Companies like Xerafy and Omni-ID have taken the mystery out of on-metal tagging, and RFID-based solutions are common in aerospace, medical, automotive and [...]
Tremendous progress has been made when it comes to the ability of RFID technology to work on metal and with liquids. Companies like Xerafy and Omni-ID have taken the mystery out of on-metal tagging, and RFID-based solutions are common in aerospace, medical, automotive and many other industries. The development of an antenna-less RFID tag by [...]
In a day and age when the government is trying to trim its budget, RFID can offer a significant savings. Placing RFID tags on missiles used by the U.S. Navy and by NATO, for example, could save up to $300 million in unneeded maintenance costs a year. Ten months after awarding a contract to ODIN to [...]
Qantas Airlines has nearly perfected the paperless airport, and I can’t wait until other airlines wake up to RFID and start to make the traveler experience more seamless and user friendly. As profiled in the New York Times this week, Qantas deployed RFID technology in Sydney, Australia in 2010. The technology has gone a long [...]
RFID continues to get a big push from government-mandated initiatives in the APAC region. Of course, the well-documented mandate for tagging pharmaceuticals in Korea begins to kick in next year, with a ramp-up to tagging 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals by 2015. This week Singapore announced a deal with Hitachi Asia Ltd to deploy a passive RFID [...]
The Texas Department of Public Safety is now tracking more than $1 billion worth of assets by using RFID in an extension of a program designed to track evacuees during hurricanes. In the new partnership with Radiant RFID, the DPS will now utilize the firm’s adaptive suite of asset tracking tools to manage and track [...]
What do you call an RFID chip that is somewhere between high and low memory? Waltham, Mass.-based Tego, a provider of high-memory tagging solutions is still searching for the exact wording, but the “mid-memory” chip is available nonetheless. The company unveiled its TegoChip 2000, a 2-kilobit chip for tagging aircraft parts that require only birth [...]
The transportation sector continues to be a hotbed of activity for RFID. This week Avery Dennison announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract by McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nev., to continue to supply RFID tags for its baggage handling system. Although McCarran doesn’t represent a new deployment, additional airports are lining [...]
The arrival of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications is causing manufacturers to accelerate their use of RFID, a development that bears close watching by network operators and technology suppliers targeting that marketplace. A new report titled “Manufacturers Show Increased Interest in RFID-M2M Systems” examines how RFID and M2M technology in the manufacturing sector is being used today, [...]
The clock is ticking for suppliers to the Department of Defense. Starting this month, the Defense Logistics Agency will require suppliers to include RFID tags on all items being shipped to its 25 supply depots. The DLA, the supply chain arm of the DoD, has made this request before. However, the agency is adding teeth [...]