M&A activity is heating up once again in the RFID sector. Last week Motorola Solutions announced it is purchasing Psion for about $200 million. Also this month, Stanley Healthcare Solutions, a division of Stanley Black & Decker, announced a deal to acquire AeroScout for an undisclosed amount. The Psion deal gives Motorola a stronger entry into [...]
In late 2005, I predicted in another publication that a young upstart company called Impinj would some day file for an IPO. Six years later that time has arrived. In case you missed this week’s coverage of the Impinj IPO announcement, we have included it on our blog page. Four years ago, Alien Technology created [...]
The most exciting news coming out of the second day of RFID Live was the announcement by ODIN that it is partnering with the Mayo Clinic to commercialize a solution designed to automate tracking and data entry in pathology labs. The solution could revolutionize the way that specimens are tracked as they move from one [...]
We’ve seen RFID playing a greater role in the sporting world lately, but it looks like the 2012 Olympic Games in London will take the technology to the next level by actually implanting RFID chips in athletes for athlete tracking, accessing secure areas and for use with purchases. Rumors began flying late last week, on [...]
Without 99.9% accuracy, your RFID deployment is destined for failure. Check out ODIN’s video now to learn the difference between 80 percent read accuracy and 99.9 percent (the difference can be hair raising – but don’t expect too much high level info here).
When it comes to content creation to drive traffic to the web, nobody understands it better than ODIN. The firm just completed a survey of major medical device manufacturers, which revealed some interesting trends about RFID adoption. The best news? Just over 60 percent of respondents say that they expect to start their next RFID [...]
M&A activity in the RFID sector will likely heat up significantly in 2011, but ODIN technologies got a head start on the action Thursday when it acquired Massachusetts-based REVA Systems, a developer of RFID network infrastructure products. ODIN CEO and founder Patrick Sweeney wouldn’t reveal the purchase price in a story in the Boston Globe, [...]
Remember a few years ago when word got out that Levi Strauss was piloting RFID at a couple of its outlet stores? The news spread like wildfire, and privacy advocates were picketing the stores soon after, claiming that the RFID tags would be used to track customers and steal their identity. Well, look at how [...]
For those that didn’t receive this week’s edition of RFID 24-7, we’ve posted our lead story here for you. When ThingMagic got its start in a garage in Somerville, Mass., 10 years ago, the firm’s co-founders probably never considered that the company would be scooped up a decade later by a billion-dollar buyer. That’s exactly [...]
Last week, Impinj announced its new, lower cost reader chip, the R500, which the company says is ideal for applications that do not require long read range or the need to read many items at once. We just came across this interesting blog piece from our friends at ODIN, and thought we’d share it with [...]
