Retailers readily admit how difficult it is to keep accurate inventory without RFID. Many estimate that inventory accuracy is only about 65 percent when conducted manually. Imagine how much more problematic inventory accuracy becomes when you’re dealing with items stored at ultra low temperatures between -50ºC and -86°C. Aside from manual errors that occur during [...]

There’s quite a bit of activity occurring in Europe when it comes to new use cases and applications for RFID. For starters, Nordic ID unveiled a major product rollout this morning, introducing its line of readers focused on the retail item level market. Kudos to the company for putting together a creative Bond-like video to [...]

RFID solutions provider Impinj today announced the launch of two components for implementing item-level RFID across retail markets and supply chains. Impinj’s Monza® 5 tag chip and STP™ source tagging platform are expected to enable widespread scaling of RFID retail inventory management solutions. The new products were driven by the Item-Level RFID Initiative announced last November [...]

New chip and tagging platform expected to further accelerate item-level tagging  

Xerafy took advantage of a captive audience today at the Alien User and Partner Conference to unveil the new and enhanced line of its X Series tags. The X II UHF RFID-on-metal tags are engineered for high performance and demanding apps in the automotive, aerospace, construction, energy and IT markets.   The new X II Series [...]

Libraries around the world have deployed RFID technology for years, including the Vatican and the Hamburg Public Library System in Germany, which holds 1.6 million books, 130,000 CD’s, and 55,000 videos and other media. AS RFID technology matures, the options available to libraries have increased greatly. No more just slapping an RFID tag onto a [...]

RFID technology solutions will soon become more affordable for a wider array of applications that don’t require high-octane and expensive readers. Driven by customer requests for lower cost readers for some of the simpler yet creative RFID apps hitting the market, Impinj last week unveiled its Indy® R500 reader chip, developed specifically to address the emerging [...]

I just returned from a press conference with ODIN technologies and Savi, who are partnering to offer the first and most comprehensive software platform leveraging both passive and active RFID technologies. Here’s the big question. If ODIN and Savi are such a great match, why not merge? The deal makes me wonder if the first [...]

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 [...]