It seems like we’ve been waiting for years for RFID-enabled appliances to become mainstream. RFID powered refrigerators, for example, could send a message to consumers and restaurant owners when food is about to expire, or automatically send a notice to your online grocery order that your milk needs to be replenished. Although that kind of [...]
RFID-enabled curbside recycling is having a tough time ramping up in the U.S. Municipalities like Dayton, Ohio and Charleston County, S.C., have rolled out successful programs recently, but the concept is slow to catch on. There are still frequent stories about local politicians requesting that RFID tags be ripped off of newly ordered disposal units, [...]
An RFID-based recycling solution deployed by the city of Dayton, Ohio is proving so successful that the city projects a return-on-investment in less than one year and yearly savings of $100,000. The program is being deployed to lower recycling costs and increase participation in existing recycling efforts. Dayton is trying to curb the increasing expenditure [...]
Last year RFID 24-7 wrote about the tagging of 20,000 Koa trees in Hawaii to allow investors in the Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods Koa reforestation project to track and monitor the progress of their investments in real time. The initial pilot tagged about 20,000 trees. Now, middle school students in India are tagging saplings as a [...]
The retail industry is embracing item level RFID for the enhanced visibility that the technology provides when it comes to monitoring product movement through the supply chain and on store shelves. While much has been written about the high stakes for retailers, another industry is just discovering the plethora of benefits that result from increased [...]
I’ve been working on a top 10 list of how RFID not only benefits business, but the environment as well. Clearly, RFID qualifies as a green enabler when it comes to sustainability. One area I’ll examine in this special report is transportation. RFID enables cars to zoom through tolls and pull into parking garages quicker, [...]
I’ve posted this week’s lead story from RFID 24-7 for those of you who don’t receive the newsletter. As more focus is placed on environmental issues following the tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, several use cases are developing for RFID to track carbon usage, an ugly byproduct of the U.S.’ addiction to [...]
Ever wonder about the carbon footprint of the pair of imported shoes you just purchased? Or the Chilean grapes you bought at the fruit store? Well, RFID is playing a greater role in carbon tracking, a movement that is bound to gain steam in the wake of the incredulous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. [...]
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 [...]