May 20 - 26, 2007

News from May 26, 2007

• Cisco, AeroScot RFID Products Fuse Well Together
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  AeroScout and Cisco are linked more closely now that the Wi-Fi active RFID entrepreneur's tags work with the networking giant's CCX tag format. ...
• RFID 'useful for healthcare sector'
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  The use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology has been claimed as important for the healthcare industry by an expert. ...
• Using RFID and Wi-Fi to Track Students
  Slashdot - USA
  An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports on a proposal to use RFID and wi-fi to track students wherever they go on campus: 'Battery-powered RFID tags are ...
• High-profile conference on RFID taking place in Berlin
  Just 4 Business - Bad Aibling, BY, Germany
  There is a conference with the motto of „RFID: Towards the Internet of Things" which will take place in Berlin on June 25th and 26th. ...
• Aquarium chips fish
  Register - London, England, UK
  Singapore's Underwater World aquarium has installed what it describes as the world's first RFID fish-tagging system - not to prevent piscine Nemo-style mass ...
• The Market for Battery Driven Active RFID's is Expected to Reach ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Active RFID, where a battery drives the tag, is responsible for an increasing percentage of the money spent in the burgeoning RFID market. ...
• Portuguese Manufacturer Opens Doors With RFID
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  May 25, 2007--Portuguese wooden door manufacturer Vicaima has integrated RFID technology into its Vale de Cambra manufacturing facility. ...
• RFID security act passed by California senate again
  Ars Technica - Boston, MA, USA
  Authored in response to public concern regarding the considerable security implications of RFID technologies, SB 30 passed 33-2 with extensive bipartisan ...
• Combination Of Wi-Fi And RFID To Be Used For Real-Time Location ...
  AHN - USA
  The way the locating system works is when battery-powered RFID tags communicate with a minimum of three wireless access points inside a network to figure ...
• Head's Up: RFID Business Conference in Germany
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWi) and Federal Ministry for Education and the European Commission will host an RFID-based conference on ...

News from May 25, 2007

• RFID kiosk, digital signs help the Artisan Complete Group take ...
  Kiosk marketplace.com (press release) - Louisville, KY, USA
  Among the display were digital-screen integrated initiatives from Artisan Live, the digital signage specialist within Artisan Complete, and an RFID-enabled ...
• RFID Tag: METRO Group And Checkpoint Systems Partner To Help
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  The "Tag It Easy" pilot enables the consumer goods industry to apply RFID labels on the shipments from Hong Kong to Germany. The kick-off with a solution ...
• Singapore aquarium tags fish with RFID chips
  engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
  Keeping track of your personal pet using any means necessary is one thing, but embedding RFID chips into some 20 aquarium fishes is taking things to a whole ...
• Schneider Electric has the open way for RFID
  Global SMT & Packaging - Glastonbury, UK
  Implementing versatile and cost-effective RFID (radio frequency identification) systems is a straightforward task using Ositrack products from Telemecanique ...
• European RFID network 'requires meticulous integration'
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  The development of a networked radio frequency identification (RFID) technology environment will require meticulous and detailed planning during its ...
• RFID Payment Platforms Gaining Momentum
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Second, the logo on the face of the Visa RFID card--which depicts radio waves and has been adopted by the three biggest US credit card associations (American ...
• Market for RFID continues to surge forward
  Global SMT & Packaging - Glastonbury, UK
  The RFID industry is continuing to grow and incorporate more and more technologies and markets. Here, Raghu Das, CEO of IDTechEx, discusses which markets ...

News from May 24, 2007

• Metro Expands RFID Pilot in Asia
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  May 23, 2007 - Metro, the world's fourth largest retailer, is expanding its Advanced Logistics Asia RFID pilot to include 30 Chinese suppliers. ...
• In-Stat Projects Wi-Fi RFID Tag Market to Grow More Than 100% Per ...
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  The technology is attractive because Wi-Fi RFID allows businesses to leverage their existing Wi-Fi investments for asset tracking, the high-tech market ...
• Europe's RFID market poised to grow
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Frost & Sullivan analyzed European Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Middleware Markets and found that the markets earned revenues of $41.0 million in ...
• Dow AgroSciences Recognized for Innovative Use of RFID Technology
  PCT Online - USA
  The award, presented on May 2, in Orlando, spotlights Dow AgroSciences for its ground-breaking use of RFID technology as a key component of the Sentricon(r) ...
• Training session on RFID solution
  The Brunei Times - Bandar, Brunei, Brunei Darussalam
  IMPLEMENTING the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology poses unique challenges to newcomers of the industry. A one-day RFID bootcamp has been ...
• Viagra RFID: One Year Later
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  It's been more than 14 months since Pfizer went live with its pilot to tag all of Viagra trade items with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology ...
• UCA & KeyTone team up for RFID asset tracking
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  In addition, the RFID Asset Tracking Solution will help financial companies comply with fixed asset accounting regulations of Sarbanes-Oxley. ...
• University of Arkansas Kicks Off Apparel and Footwear RFID Study
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  May 23, 2007--The University of Arkansas' RFID Research Center is teaming with an apparel retailer and two consumer goods associations on an RFID study ...
• Crown Macau Opens With GPI State-of-the-Art RFID Plaques
  Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine (press release) - Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
  GPI supplied several sets of the state-of-the-art B&G plaques using high frequency RFID technology from Magellan. The order was also for all of the ...

News from May 23, 2007

• Brunei Looks To Develop Its Own RFID Solutions
  Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam
  Bandar Seri Begawan - It is expected that made in Brunei' RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) solutions would be developed in future. ...
• RFID leaps from the warehouse to the art museum
  CR80News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Many museums utilize a barcode system to identify their collection’s contents, but some feel an RFID tracking method works better. Why? ...
• The Prosperous Market for RFID
  IDTechEx - Cambridge, UK
  The market for RFID continues to surge forward, with investments, acquisitions and orders at record levels. The premier European IDTechEx conference RFID ...
• Arcade gamers to pay with RFID wristbands
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  The partnership builds upon Precision Dynamics' business strategy of offering RFID consulting services and products specifically for leisure and ...
• China's RFID market to boom in 2008, report says
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  According to the China RFID Market Report, available from Research and Markets, the year 2008 will see a leap in China's market development with the RFID ...
• RFID skin patches to act as diagnostic sensors
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Gentag and private medical practice The CORE Institute have announced a joint effort to develop and market RFID skin patches for medical applications in the ...
• Aethon Adds RFID to Robotic Hospital Helpers
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  This model performs the same jobs as a Tug, but also carries an RFID interrogator used to locate RFID-tagged assets as it moves around a hospital. ...
• WhereNet Introduces Multimode Active RFID Real-Time Locating ...
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  "Due to the way radio waves propagate and given the inherent trade-offs associated with various location technologies, WhereNet's multimode active RFID tags ...
• TCM Introduces RFID-based Medicine-Dispensing System
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  May 22, 2007—The Corporate Machine (TCM), an RFID systems provider with offices in Singapore and other Southeast Asian countries, has introduced ...
• Wi-Fi RFID Tag Market to Grow More Than 100% Per Year Through 2010
  Wireless Design & Development Asia - Singapore
  Despite some hurdles to overcome, Wi-Fi RFID tag shipments will grow at over 100 percent annually through 2010, according to market research firm In-Stat. ...

News from May 22, 2007

• Highlights From the Fifth RFID Academic Convocation
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  In an industry where medical errors affect 1.5 million people and cost $3.5 billion per year, there is tremendous room to make improvements using RFID in ...
• Solstice Medical Launches First High Performance RFID Tags For
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  “The MD 3 tag designs elevate traditional RFID tag performance and address three key requirements of the medical device industry: exponential improvements ...
• Gain an Insight into the Quickly Growing Market for Wi-Fi RFID
  TMC Net - Norwalk, CT, USA
  Table 5. Worldwide Wi-Fi RFID Tag Shipments and Revenues (Units in Thousands, Revenues US$ in Thousands), 2006 through 2011.
• Backlash against RFID is growing
  CNNMoney.com - USA
  In the past year, twenty-two states have introduced legislation regarding RFID technology, which uses tiny radio transmitter chips, or "tags," that can be ...
• RFID, LTD Unveils 3M File Tracking
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Ms. Chavez made those remarks in response to her company's announcement this morning -- RFID LTD will be helping Idaho National Laboratories get up, ...
• IT Shrugs Off Criticism of Dual-Purpose RFID Label
  E-Commerce Times - USA
  Checkpoint Systems earlier this month rolled out a line of RFID (radio frequency identification)-enabled labels with both advanced inventory control and ...
• RFID News: Is a "Mini-WMS" or Real-Time Locator System the Answer ...
  Supply Chain Digest - Dayton, OH, USA
  The Impact: With so much of the recent focus on RFID and consumer goods centering on the challenges of finding and delivering inventory from stock room to ...
• RFID Pharma Cold Chain Monitoring Solution Launches
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The system uses a combination of active RFID, temperature sensors, and GPS to monitor the location and temperature of shipments in real-time. ...
• RFID and real-time temperature monitoring combine
  In-PharmaTechnologist.com - Montpellier, France
  Nottingham-based Microlise has gone into partnership with delivery and logistics company DHL and RFID producer AeroScout to develop a new system for the ...
• Gain an Insight into the Quickly Growing Market for Wi-Fi RFID
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Covered in this report is an overview of real-time location systems (RTLS), radio frequency identification (RFID) standards and technologies, ...

News from May 21, 2007

• RFID Takes Off in the Aerospace Industry
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  During a three-day demonstration last December in Tokyo, RFID tags were used to track the expiration dates on oxygen generators onboard a 777 commercial ...
• AiTi to hold National RFID seminar
  Borneo Bulletin - borneo, Brunei Darussalam
  There will also be a special showcase on how RFID can transform and improve business and government operations. Members of the public can view the ...
• NXP Semiconductors Unveils Business Strategy for the Indian Market
  IT News Online - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
  Highlighting NXP's success with RFID technology in India, van Houten said, "Our contactless smart card solutions have been adopted by the majority of the ...
• It's Not That Simple
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  This year, government policy makers will likely decide the future of RFID in the pharmaceutical industry. The direction they choose will affect your ...

News from May 19, 2007

• Brunei looks into RFID technology
  The Brunei Times - Bandar, Brunei, Brunei Darussalam
  The main objective of the seminar is to create awareness amongst the relevant agencies as well as members of the public on RFID technology, and to promote ...