Chinese consumers are demanding new ways to authenticate products as concerns about counterfeit products rise in that country. For example, more than 150 million bottles of liquor will be tagged this year in the APAC region in an effort to verify product authentication. But liquor and consumer goods aren’t the only products being tagged with RFID. [...]

Sector: Trash & Recycling Savings: $1M Today’s entry in the RFID $1M-a-Day Challenge comes from the trash sector, where recycling efforts in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio have combined to save over $1 million. Cincinnati’s RFID-based recycling solution has saved the city nearly $1 million in labor and waste disposal costs over the past two years, [...]

The burgeoning item level tagging market is expected to drive the retail sector to become the single largest user of RFID in 2015. The overall forecast, provided by ABI Research, says that the market for RFID transponders, readers, software, and services will generate $70.5 billion in sales  from 2012 to the end of 2017. The [...]

Ohio is becoming a hotbed for RFID-driven waste management best practices. In Cincinnati, an RFID-based recycling solution has saved the city nearly $1 million in labor and waste disposal costs over the past two years. In October, Dayton, Ohio city officials said they expect to save $100,000 a year from a similar solution. With municipalities [...]

When Paul Peters spoke at RFID Live last April,  the deputy assistant secretary of defense for supply chain integration for the Department of Defense indicated that the U.S. budget crisis would not slow the deployment of RFID in the Department of Defense. A year later, government spending on RFID projects has slowed considerably. Since the [...]

Big insurers are banking on the benefits of RFID technology to open new markets in the insurance industry. Better yet, efficiency gains and reduced supply chain risks from deploying RFID could lead to cheaper insurance premiums for those that deploy the technology, bettering ROI’s that are already soaring. At a recent RFID and food safety [...]

It’s been a busy fourth quarter for the executive team at Smartrac. After making a pair of acquisitions earlier this month, Smartrac announced today that it is acquiring UPM’s RFID business. The deal is expected to close during the first quarter of 2012 and will provide Smartrac with a much stronger presence in the burgeoning [...]

RFID continues to get a big push from government-mandated initiatives in the APAC region. Of course, the well-documented mandate for tagging pharmaceuticals in Korea begins to kick in next year, with a ramp-up to tagging 50 percent of all pharmaceuticals by 2015. This week Singapore announced a deal with Hitachi Asia Ltd to deploy a passive RFID [...]

The transportation sector continues to be a hotbed of activity for RFID. This week Avery Dennison announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract by McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nev., to continue to supply RFID tags for its baggage handling system. Although McCarran doesn’t represent a new deployment, additional airports are lining [...]

The transportation sector continues to be a hotbed of activity for RFID. This week Avery Dennison announced that it has been awarded a three-year contract by McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nev., to continue to supply RFID tags for its baggage handling system. Although McCarran doesn’t represent a new deployment, additional airports are lining [...]