Last week’s RFID Live show highlighted many new uses cases that continue to develop for RFID technology. Some of the keynote highlights included BP, which has added $150 million to its bottom line by deploying 37 RFID projects throughout the company. In addition, retailer American Apparel revealed that it is now nearly fully deployed at [...]

Day One Update from RFID Live: Major announcement from NXP and keynote session from Airbus

The 11th annual RFID Live Journal conference kicked off yesterday in Orlando with an increased confidence in the role that RFID will play in businesses moving forward. While retail continues to have a major focus in the exhibit hall, asset tracking solutions also had a strong presence, as did systems for the healthcare and medical [...]

BP is deploying RFID technology to monitor its supply chain during construction of the $7 billion Clair Ridge oil platform located in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. BP has chosen Mojix Inc., a provider of wide-area passive RFID solutions, to deliver a track-and-trace technology solution that supplies real-time visibility of oil platform [...]

Lockheed Martin, a pioneer in the RFID market, is preparing to mainstream the use of RFID technology throughout the company. The giant defense contractor, which has used RFID in its supply chain and manufacturing operations since at least 2005, has committed to educate hundreds of employees through an online training program offered by RFID Revolution. Lockheed [...]

Networking giant Cisco is chasing the Internet of Things in a big way. Last week Cisco announced that it is leading the charge in developing the Internet of Things World Forum, an event designed to accelerate the development of the Internet of Things market. The Forum will be held in Barcelona, Spain in October. Cisco [...]

RFID is quickly making its way into electronic devices, something that is evidenced by the amount of new RFID-enabled gadgets being unveiled at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. I didn’t make the trip to CES, since my schedule takes me to the NRF Big Show in New York next week. However, word [...]

With an eye on increased efficiencies and eliminating counterfeits, book publishers are getting  a strong read from RFID technology. This video produced by SATO America explains the top three ways that book publishers benefit from embedding RFID tags into the covers of paperback and hard cover books. Dennis Dehainaut, vice president of sales at BindTech, [...]

RFID continues to make inroads in the transportation sector, from high speed trains moving at 250 kilometers per hour (155 MPH), to car manufacturers like Volkswagen and Porsche. This video demonstrates that RFID can be used to accurately track vehicles moving at high speeds. European RFID system integrator 7ID was tasked with demonstarting that RFID [...]

The transportation and logistics sector are ahead of most industries when it comes to deploying technologies that will enable them to take advantage of the Internet of Things,  a future world where all items are connected by technologies like RFID. According to a global study conducted by Forrester Consulting, only 15 percent of respondents have [...]