When Mission Foods deployed RFID at its Texas distribution facilities in 2010, the company saved $700,000 on packaging costs by switching from corrugated boxes to reusable plastic boxes with embedded RFID tags. Last year Mission Foods rolled out the program to its West Coast DCs, resulting in an additional savings of $1 million. When the [...]

When retailers build a business case for deploying RFID, they often start with the improved inventory accuracy that the technology can deliver. “We were very focused on inventory accuracy,” says Bill Connell, senior vice president of logistics and operations at Macy’s. “Our journey began with achieving the benefits from accurate data.” Retailers, however, are starting [...]

Innovation was on full display during last week’s RFID Live conference in Orlando. In many cases, the new applications showcased by vendors like Impinj and NXP interact heavily with consumers, bringing shoppers even closer to the technology. Vendors were impressed with some of the new use cases brought to them by attendees during the show, [...]

It’s been more than 10 years since the Auto-ID Center was founded at MIT. The Center served as a launch pad for RFID innovation, and was the birthplace of companies like ThingMagic, OAT Systems and others. With co-founders Sanjay Sarma and David Brock set to take the stage at Wednesday’s Auto-ID & Sensing Solutions Expo [...]

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 [...]

Black Elk Energy specializes in buying oil and gas wells, primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, that are under-producing and applying capital and technology to make them profitable. By the end of 2011, the company was valued at nearly $950 million. The company also deploys technology within its internal operations, including an RFID-based document tracking [...]

The retail industry continues to embrace RFID technology. Sales gains, operational efficiencies and a reduction in shrink have been well documented, and 2012 is expected to be a breakthrough year as major retailers cue up the technology for deployment. RFID in retail is expected to become ubiquitous within 12 to 36 months. As Macy’s Chief [...]

This application note describes how one might design a robust race timing system using ThingMagic UHF RFID technology. The application note assumes the reader to be generally familiar with RFID technology and the ThingMagic MercuryAPI.

This application note describes how engineers might design a robust bulk encoding system using ThingMagic UHF RFID technology. The paper assumes that the reader of this application note is generally familiar with both RFID technology and the ThingMagic MercuryAPI.

Monitoring only the last known location of an asset is often not sufficient in many applications as it does not give information about the direction in which the asset was moving in order to intelligently predict its next location. This is driving the requirement for RFID systems to report directionality in addition to the asset [...]