January 15 - 20, 2007

News from January 20, 2007

• 3M Library Systems Unveils Two Advanced RFID Workstations with ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  3M Library Systems has unveiled two workstations with new features that make them fast, reliable and easy-to-use RFID products in the library environment. ...
• Social Security Expects 70% Savings from RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The agency expects to reduce some warehouse labor needs 70 percent by using RFID to enhance its legacy bar code-based warehouse management system, ...
• Invisible RFID Ink Tatoos?
  Free Market News Network - Pompano Beach, FL, USA
  Somark Innovations announced biocompatible RFID ink, which can be used to tattoo cattle and laboratory rats and can be read through animal hair. ...
• If You Like Needles, You're Gonna Love RFID
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  Here's the issue: RFID is being propelled from its initial application of glued-on tags used to track pallets of soap powder destined for Wal-Mart into one ...
• Tech trade groups form RFID council
  BusinessWeek - USA
  RFID tags embedded in office supplies, cargo containers or even weapons can help agencies and companies keep better track of their inventory, proponents say ...
• RFID Tattoo for Tracking Cattle and Humans
  Slashdot - USA
  ack154 writes "The Register reports that a St Louis based company, Somark Innovations, has successfully tested RFID tattoos to be used for tracking cattle ...
• RFID Tags and Trends for 2007 An Interview With Phil Lazo, Symbol ...
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  AIM Global's RFID Connections interviewed Phil Lazo, vice president and general manager of Symbol Technologies’ RFID Global Products group, ...
• Yakka Uses RFID to Size NZ Military
  RFID Journal - USA
  The RFID system is designed to help the company fit, manufacture and deliver uniforms to soldiers within five days of when they report for military duty, ...
• Horizon Lines Announces RFID Solution for Alaskan Trade
  Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
  The active RFID-based real-time tracking system when matched with Horizon's industry-leading web-based event management system, offers shippers unparalleled ...

News from January 19, 2007

• RFID News Roundup
  RFID Journal - USA
  Axcess International, a Dallas-based provider of active RFID systems, has lowered the price of its battery-powered asset tags from a suggested retail price ...
• Gen2 RFID reader module boasts Windows CE support
  WindowsForDevices - Palo Alto, CA, USA
  WJ Communications is readying a Gen2 UHF RFID module roughly the size of a CF card. The WJM3000, based on WJ's recently-introduced RFID chipset, ...
• RTLS & Active RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Get everything you need to put RFID to work today at the world's largest RFID conference & exhibition. Access the most case studies, the most how-to ...
• IDTechEx Identifies "Booming" Areas for RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Contactless transport cards are becoming the norm around the world, driving demand for the RFID inlays and readers that enable the contactless interaction. ...
• Intermec grants RFID patent licences to Motorola
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Intermec Technologies has announced that Motorola has become the 24th licensee of the company's RFID patents. Intermec holds more than 154 RFID patents ...
• Social Security Administration uses Intermec RFID Technology
  Automation.com (press release) - Eden Prairie, MN, USA
  The SSA deployed Intermec RFID hardware in its Supply Chain Management program to fulfill more than 42000 orders for forms, publications and other documents ...
• 2007 could be the year RFID gets smarter
  EETimes.com - USA
  Soon, RFID could track items as customers pick them up from store shelves throughout America and immediately trigger displays with very specific information ...
• Will RFID in manufacturing apps lead to market growth?
  Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa, OK, USA
  While numerous pilot activities designed to evaluate the potential for RFID in manufacturing are currently underway, the number of pilots that actually ...
• Uncover the ROI in RFID...Closed Loop Systems Provide Savings ...
  IndustryWeek - USA
  Wal-Mart, the DOD and EPC have done amazing things for the movement of RFID technology but how is RFID being applied to enhance business processes that are ...
• Value-Added RFID
  Line 56 News - USA
  Pliant recently decided to address the danger of tampering by turning to radio frequency identification (RFID). The company developed a stretch film built ...
• PDC and IntelliDOT team up on RFID wristbands
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  "The PDC wristband identification systems, particularly RFID technology, will make our point of care systems much easier to use at bedside," said Dave ...
• RFID Journal to Host Charity Golf Event
  RFID Journal - USA
  Sullivan, an RFID pioneer, worked with Gillette on its efforts in radio frequency identification. After his sudden passing in 2005, several of his friends ...
• Booming RFID sectors
  IDTechEx - Cambridge, UK
  RFID orders are sharply increasing from many quarters. ERG of Australia, with over US$100 million in sales of RFID card systems has just announced two major ...
• RFID corrects for gate misalignment
  Eureka - Dartfor, Kent, UK
  The Guardmaster "SensaGuard" family of inductive switches, from Rockwell’s Allen-Bradley division, use RFID coded targets that will still latch the switches ...
• RFID e-learning tool is "efficient and cost-effective"
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  An e-learning product which aims to help users understand the different aspects of radio frequency identification (RFID) implementation has been developed. ...
• Checkpoint RFID Embarks on New Strategic Path
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Checkpoint Systems yesterday announced its involvement in the 36-dock door trial of Gen2 RFID conducted by giant German retailer METRO Group at one of its ...
• Increase Your RFID Sales With Closed-Loop Asset Tracking
  IT Reseller Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Retailer mandates aren’t the only hot opportunities for supply chain VARs selling RFID (radio frequency identification) solutions. ...

News from January 18, 2007

No news available.

News from January 17, 2007

• Greeks to monitor their garbage using RFID
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Greek system integrator CAT Hellas has teamed up with CAEN RFID to a trial UHF RFID tags on the waste buckets and antennas and readers on the garbage ...
• Cattle branding comes to the 21st Century
  Register - London, England,
  UK Somark Innovations, a small company working out of Saint Louis, has successfully tested an RFID tattoo, on cows, mice and rats: enabling an identifying ...
• RFID Technology: SkyeTek And Atmel Partner To Offer Industry
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  "We selected SkyeTek because the company’s Advanced Universal Reader Architecture is a tremendous complement to our secure RFID semiconductor technology," ...
• English Hospital Considers RFID for Patients
  TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks, CA, USA
  The so-called RFID chips -- radio frequency identity chips -- would be inserted into the plastic wristband name tags that in-patients usually wear. ...
• Digi-Key secures RFID distribution deal
  Electronics Supply & Manufacturing - USA
  Digi-Key Corp. today announced a global distribution pact that will allow the company to participate in the $3 billion RFID market, distributing products ...
• New Drug E-Pedigree Standard Supports RFID
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Standards organization EPCglobal ratified a new global standard that supports the use of RFID and other technologies for creating electronic pedigrees to ...
• Industry's First RFID Reader Module
  HULIQ - Hickory, NC, USA
  By leveraging the WJC200 chipset, WJ is in a unique position to shatter reader price barriers and accelerate large-scale RFID deployment by designing and ...
• Checkpoint Demonstrates RFID Capabilities
  RFID Journal - USA
  16, 2007 — Back in October 2006, RFID Journal revealed that Checkpoint Systems, a Thorofare, NJ-based provider of radio frequency identification and ...
• Pliant uses RFID to track and secure shipments
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Pliant Corporation has implemented an RFID platform pilot programme designed by IBM consultants to track shipments between the two technical centres and ...
• TI unveils HF multi-standard RFID reader IC family
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Texas Instruments (TI) has announced the availability of a high-frequency (13.56 MHz), multi-standard RFID reader IC product family. ...
• Atmel and SkyeTek team up on HF RFID systems
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  The partnership will provide both companies' clients with a secure option for embedded RFID applications. Resulting solutions will use CryptoRF's security ...
• RFID analyst forecasts cheap item-level tags by 2016
  FoodNavigator-USA - Montpellier, France
  1/15/2007 - The tagging of items with radio frequency identification (RFID) will take off in 2007 to become the biggest market by value by 2016 as prices ...
• WJ Communications Revolutionize the UHF Gen2 RFID Reader Module Market
  Government Technology - Folsom, CA, USA
  "Building upon our core competency and track record of product innovations, we are introducing the next generation WJM modules to offer our customers RFID ...
• Germany Semiconductor Maker Tracks Production With RFID, Ultrasound
  RFID Journal - USA
  LotTrack features battery-powered RFID devices called DisTags, which Infineon has affixed to containers, or lot boxes, of wafers to track each lot's ...
• Fujitsu, Accelitec launch RFID solution for mobiles
  Digital Media Asia - Mumbai, MH, Asia
  Leveraging Fujitsu's Pervasive Retailing Framework, the Paypilot solution reportedly uses RFID technology to link the consumer to various touch points in ...
• Greek RFID Pilot Collects Garbage
  RFID Journal - USA
  ... completed by garbage collectors, and to do so in real time. Aspropyrgos has now completed a three-month pilot project using RFID to attain that visibility.
• RFID Tracking Codes: iGPS Is First To Incorporate RFID Global
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  The GRAI codes provide unique identification for each of iGPS's plastic pallets when read by RFID readers, allowing transparent, real-time tracking of every ...
• Long-term investment in RFID set to pay off
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  RFID technology is expected to pay off for manufacturers and retailers that remain patient and keep a long-term investment in mind, according to a report ...

News from January 16, 2007

No news available.

News from January 15, 2007

• Wells' Dairy Milks RFID for Benefits
  RFID Journal - USA
  But instead of stopping there, the supplier turned to Rockwell Automation to develop an RFID solution that could pull data from its production-line control ..