The insurance industry is warming up to RFID technology. Insurers represent a strong market for applications like asset tracking for IT items and document management. But this morning’s announcement from the Hartford Financial Services Group takes the potential benefits of RFID to a higher level. By teaming up with cold chain solution provider Intelleflex, the [...]
RFID technology has allowed researchers a rare glimpse into the flight patterns and homing abilities of honey bees. A report in the scientific PloS ONE Journal says that bees frequently fly several kilometers to and from vital resources, and utilize a form of symbolic dance language to communicate those locations to fellow bees. Each bee was [...]
New Zealand-based Firstlight Foods knows that its customers want to know where and how their beef was produced, and how fresh it is when it arrives at the marketplace. Through a partnership with Omnitrol and RFID systems integrator Trident RFID, Firstlight now has those checks and balances in place. Firstlight, which processes and sells high [...]
As fuel costs continue to rise, transporting perishable food items becomes more expensive. And as water supplies continue to diminish, growing crops becomes more challenging. Those are two reasons why it’s so important to address the food spoilage problems that plague the perishable foods cold supply chain, and one reason why President Obama recently signed [...]
Tracking animals with RFID continues to explode, especially in Wisconsin, where dairy farmers recently tagged their one-millionth cow. By comparison, only 138,260 RFID tags had been recorded for tracking animals two years ago. By March 2009, that number had grown to 405,134. According to the Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium, only 16 percent of the milking [...]
The Hiroshima Rose Nursery has turned to battery-assisted passive (BAP) RFID technology to track thousands of high-value rose bushes. The nursery, which grows about 500 types of roses, requires accurate real-time inventory and location data, primarily for customer inquiries. In order to provide instant plant visibility, the nursery tagged thousands of plants with PowerID PowerG [...]
A lot of readers contacted me for more details about last week’s story on tagging Koa trees in Hawaii. Now that Darrell Fox, COO at Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods, has returned from the remote Koa plantation in on the slopes of Mauna Kea, I was able to get some answers about tagging methods. As for how [...]
Received some great feedback from last week’s article about the use of RFID to tag individual Koa trees on a plantation on Hawaii. The RFID tree tracking database being developed by Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods (HLH) will allow investors in the HLH Koa reforestation project to track and monitor the progress of their investment in real [...]
Tree huggers will clearly love this one. In a first-of-its kind application, Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods (HLH) is in the process of implementing an RFID tree tracking database so that investors in the HLH Koa reforestation project can track and monitor the progress of their investments in real time. About 20,000 trees have already been tagged. [...]