Last year two of the three founding fathers of the MIT Auto-ID Lab shared the stage at the MIT Auto-ID & Sensing Solutions Expo to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the facility. During the discussion, Dr. David Brock and Dr. Sanjay Sarma discussed the original genesis of The Internet of Things and the MIT Auto-ID [...]

Honeywell continues keep quiet about its bid to acquire Intermec. Honeywell offered $603 million for Intermec back in December. The merger is currently in the regulatory approval stage and is expected to close by the end of Q2. There has been much speculation about the direction that Honeywell will take with the Intermec. Will it [...]

Google’s chief Internet evangelist is evidently an RFID nut. Speaking at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Google vice president Vint Cerf made mention of having RFID tags on all of the wine bottles in his wine cellar. Furthermore, he told CNET of his desire to go a step further and place sensors [...]

Ervin Sejdic, PhD, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering, has been named Associate Director of the RFID Center for Excellence. Sejdic will assist with providing strategic direction, obtaining funding, and collaborating on research at the Center, under the supervision of its executive director and [...]

This week’s Guest Blog comes from Ken Lynch, director of marketing at ThingMagic. Like other technologies, RFID is creating reams of new data that must be managed. Here is Ken’s blog post: A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be able to speak with InformationWeek’s Jeff Bertolucci, a respected voice in the Big [...]

Social media and RFID continue to collide as companies look for new ways to extend brand loyalty and connect with customers. While retailers embrace item level tagging and RFID for operational efficiencies, inventory management and potential sales uplift, very few have begun to realize the value of connecting customers with their friends via social networks. [...]

New markets and applications are expected to drive most of the growth in RFID over the next five years, according to new research from ABI Research. While traditional use cases such as animal and people ID and automotive access will increase by $2.8 billion by 2017, new use cases like asset tracking will experience much [...]

Eighty-five percent of all credentials issued annually will be eIDs within three years, and countries issuing eIDs will exceed those still using traditional IDs by four to one, according to a recent report by Acuity Market Intelligence. With that in mind, HID Global, a provider of solutions for the delivery of secure identity, has provided [...]

The EPCglobal Gen2 protocol was designed to accommodate a wide variety of applications, so nearly every aspect of its operation can be adjusted to optimize behavior for a particular set of requirements. Out of the box, ThingMagic readers are configured to perform well in average circumstances, and many users never have to touch the Gen2 [...]

RFID has come a long way. Just a few years ago, the notion of tracking students with RFID was met with strong resistance from parents and privacy groups. Today, it is a use case that is rapidly growing in popularity. The latest example comes from San Antonio, Tex., where close to 7,000 students in the [...]