The Mexican government has certified Impinj’s Speedway Revolution reader for purchase by state agencies and the automotive industry in compliance with the electronic vehicle registration initiative of the country’s public vehicle registry, Registro Publico Vehicular (REPUVE). All cars, trucks, buses and other public vehicles — as well as auto manufacturers and importers — must participate [...]
Alien Technology used its 2010 Global User & Partner Conference to unveil its ultra-high performance Gen 2 enterprise category reader platform yesterday. The ALR-9900+ is a global enterprise category reader platform with significant performance and feature improvements over its predecessor, the ALR-9900. Alien’s Conference, held adjacent to its RFID Solutions Center in Dayton, Ohio, drew [...]
Who’s the best of the best when it comes to vendors of UHF RFID handheld readers? According to ABI Research, Motorola is king. Motorola is ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix — a worldwide evaluation of handheld reader vendors — released by ABI Research this morning. Convergence Systems Limited (CSL) and Psion [...]
The highly anticipated opening of the new Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center occurred this month, and the high-tech hospital — and the RFID technology that powers the patient experience — is getting rave reviews. RFID 24-7 initially reported on the hospital’s plans for using RFID technology in September. Hospital executives deployed a comprehensive, [...]
RFID visionary Patrick Sweeney, founder and CEO at ODIN technologies, is out with his top nine predictions for 2009. We’re into March, and none of them have come true yet, so it’s still a good read. There are some beauties on the list, including a forecast that Alien will sell its reader business to Cisco, [...]
