June 10 - 16, 2007

News from June 16, 2007

• A Healthy Dose of RFID
  eWeek - New York, NY
  By Renee Boucher Ferguson Imagine a world where every single manufactured item is tagged with a tiny RFID chip that holds various bits of information about ...
• Sirit, Inc.'s $10.6 million RFID Tollway Contract Renewed
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Under the agreement, Sirit will supply its Title 21-based RFID transponders with shipments to begin as early as next month. 6/18/07 - Sirit Inc. (TSX: SI) ...
• AeroScout and DIVIS Deploy Wi-Fi Active RFID Tracking Solution for ...
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  6/18/07 - AeroScout, Inc. and Deutsche Industrie Video System GmbH (DIVIS) announced a unique, integrated Active RFID deployment for customer Pfefferkorn ...
• Atlanta Mercedes Dealership to Adopt RFID at New Location
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Beth Bacheldor June 15, 2007--Mercedes Benz dealership RBM of Atlanta is implementing an RFID-based real-time locating system (RTLS) at its newest ...
• Unisys Gets DoD RFID Contract
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Unisys, which began working with the DoD on RFID technology 13 years ago to maintain and enhance an in-transit visibility system for supplies using RFID, ...
• StrongTech(TM) Creates First RFID Hardware-Software Package ...
  DMN Newswire (press release) - CA, USA
  RFID technology uses radio frequencies to track the location of physical assets within an organization to help reduce theft, loss and damage. ...
• Converter Licenses Innovative RFID Antenna Technology
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Smart label converter Nashua is bringing an innovative antenna technology to the RFID industry through an exclusive licensing agreement with Fractal Antenna ...
• WJ COMMUNICATIONS INTRODUCES ULTRA LOW-POWER UHF RFID OEM READER ...
  DMN Newswire (press release) - CA, USA
  "Building on WJ's leadership in design and development of cutting-edge RFID OEM modules, the WJM1000 has been developed in close partnership with a Top Tier ...
• Web Services Meet RFID [TEXT]
  Dr. Dobb's Journal - San Mateo, CA, USA
  So basically what we're announcing is a product called WebSphere RFID Information Center. And the real focus of this product isn't so much how we acquire ...

News from June 15, 2007

• RFID To Stop Surgeons Throwing In The Sponge
  Wireless Healthcare - Royston, UK
  When a transponder RFID chip sewn onto the sponge receives a certain radio query, the sponge responds with a unique ID code back to the scanner. ...
• RFID: Security Before Operations - Josh Perryman, Packet Focus
  Rfid.org - Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  RFID Connections: First of all, can you briefly describe the concept behind the services offered by your company? At a high level, we offer security ...
• Tiny RFID Tags May Make Jewelry More Secure
  Jewelers Circular Keystone Online - New York, NY, USA
  Scientists at Hitachi Research Labs in Japan have devised the smallest radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag ever, just 0.05 millimeter by 0.05 ...
• AeroScout Tracks Down European RFID Healthcare Deal
  Wireless Healthcare - Royston, UK
  AeroScout a provider of Wi-Fi-based Active RFID solutions, has announced an innovative pilot project with Hospital St. Louis, Luxembourg's largest hospital ...
• DoD Awards Unisys Multimillion Dollar RFID Contract
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  The contract represents an extension to the RFID work Unisys has done for the DoD for 13 years. Not to be confused with the DoD's highly publicized passive ...
• Huntsman introduces smart Araldite(r) adhesives for RFID company TAGSYS
  ClickPress (press release) - UK
  Huntsman Advanced Materials announces the creation of two specialist Araldite(r) adhesives for use in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags designed by ...
• RFID News Roundup
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Seattle-based RFID hardware provider Impinj has announced an evaluation kit designed to enable potential end users, vendors (including systems integrators ...
• TDC appointed distributor of Texas Instruments' RFID range
  ClickPress (press release) - UK
  TDC has added Texas Instruments full range of RFID products which provide an economical tracking solution for a wide variety of industries including ...
• Grocery sector wraps up RFID test-drive
  ITBusiness.ca - Canada
  The project involved the "slap and ship" method of applying RFID tags to products that are managed in logistics and warehouse operations. ...
• Successful RFID Deployments Require Robust Network Infrastructure ...
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  What operational barriers have been overcome, and how is RFID impacting network communications? The initial commercial focus of RFID was to enhance ...

News from June 14, 2007

• AeroScout and DIVIS Deploy Wi-Fi Active RFID Tracking Solution for ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  The solution was jointly developed by AeroScout and DIVIS, and uniquely links RFID location data with video surveillance information to locate shipments. ...
• Unisys tapped again for military RFID work
  Washington Technology - Washington, DC, USA
  Unisys has been working with DOD for 13 years to develop and enhance an in-transit visibility system utilizing RFID technology. The four-year contract is ...
• Aero-Domains support RFID at the Air Transport Community
  openPR (press release) - Hamburg, Germany
  (openPR) - RFID (radio frequency identification devices) technology can bring substantial benefits to the Air Transport Community in the form of cost ...
• RFID Tag: IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Develops Satellite Assisted RFID Tag
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  IDENTEC SOLUTIONS, one of the leader in wireless tracking and tracing solutions that include award-winning intelligent long-range active RFID technology, ...
• RFID 'Evangelist' Still Spinning Wheels
  ThomasNet Industrial News Room - New York City, NY, USA
  By TD Clark For many CIOs, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is still a scary technology. Having been around for decades but re-ignited a few years ago ...
• RFID Umbrella Sharing Launches in Philadelphia
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  A startup in Philadelphia has launched an innovative application that blends RFID, umbrella sharing, and mobile advertising. ...
• FDA Clearance for World's First RFID Surgical Sponge Counting ...
  Earthtimes.org - USA
  This is the world's first RFID system that detects and counts surgical sponges and towels during surgical procedures." Mr. Palmer continued, "With an ...
• Understanding RFID Part 3: Passive Tags
  CR80News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  In the previous article, "The principles of RFID: Active Tags," we discussed a classification of RFID tag called the active tag. Even though the active tag ...

News from June 13, 2007

• TAGSYS and NXP Announce the Industry's Highest Performance RFID ...
  MoreRFID (press release) - TX, USA
  TAGSYS, the global leader in item-level RFID solutions, and NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips and market leader ...
• FCI acquires Smartag, expands RFID product offering
  Reliable Plant Magazine - Tulsa, OK, USA
  FCI has acquired Smartag, a specialized manufacturer of RFID (radio frequency identification) tags. This acquisition will allow the group to strengthen its ...
• IDENTEC SOLUTIONS Develops Satellite Assisted RFID Tag Technology
  Wireless Design & Development Asia - Singapore
  Self tracking, the GPS tag utilizes satellites in combination with RFID to chart its route and movement. Once within range of an IDENTEC SOLUTIONS reader ...
• RFID transponder molded in plastics component
  Jobwerx - Seattle, WA, USA
  New RFID transponder generation makes it possible to integrate a three-dimensional directional antenna into the plastics component. ...
• Printed RFID Tags Still Several Years Away
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Rhea Wessel June 12, 2007--At IntertechPira's Printed RFID conference, held earlier this month in Frankfurt, Germany, industry leaders said that although ...
• Impinj launches supply chain RFID evaluation kit
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK It enables VARs, system integrators, test laboratories and end users to assess the company's far-field and near-field UHF RFID solutions for pallet-, case-, ...
• USA : TAGSYS launches SC400 RFID smart cabinet for folded garments
  Fibre2fashion.com - India
  TAGSYS, the global leader in item-level RFID infrastructure announced the launch of the SC400, an innovative Smart Cabinet for medical facilities and ...
• Army weighs using RFID network partially owned by Chinese firm
  GovExec.com - Wahington, DC, USA
  The Defense Department has used RFID tags with a range of 300 feet to track movements of containers and pallets to US forces operating in Afghanistan and ...
• Electro-Com offers new RFID tags for Pharmaceutical and Healthcare ...
  Ferret - Australia
  Electro-Com offers TI-RFID Tag-It range of 13.56MHz RFID tags and readers for Pharmaceutical and Healthcare applications. The pharmaceutical industry is ...
• Pfizer Manager Discusses the Viagra RFID Pilot
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  A few weeks ago RFID Update published Viagra RFID: One Year Later, a contributed article from Tim Marsh, senior manager at Pfizer Global Package Technology. ...

News from June 12, 2007

• TAGSYS Announces RFID System for Libraries
  B-EYE-Network - Boulder, CO, USA
  Combined with TAGSYS' family of RFID readers, the innovative hand-held WiFi inventory reader and e-connectware RFID management software, libraries now have ...
• Satellites and RFID Tag Technology Makes Tracking Assets Possible ...
  Broadband Wireless Exchange (press release) - Gilbert, AZ, USA
  Self-tracking, the GPS tag utilizes satellites in combination with RFID to chart its route and movement. Once within range of an IDENTEC SOLUTIONS reader, ...
• TAGSYS Announces Industry's First RFID Smart Cabinet for Folded ...
  TMC Net - Norwalk, CT, USA
  Building on the success of similar TAGSYS products for hanging garments since 1999, the SC400 is the industry's first and only RFID-enabled dispenser and ...
• RFID infrastructure developed for folded garments
  TUV Product Service - Fareham, Hampshire, UK
  A device which is aimed at dispensing and collecting folded garments using radio frequency identification (RFID) in the medical sector has been developed, ...
• RFID News: Staples Rethinks Item Level Tagging with Active ...
  Supply Chain Digest - Dayton, OH, USA
  Office products retailer Staples said it is conducting an RFID pilot in which store inventory will be identified with so called "active" RFID tags that ...
• UT Dallas Supply Chain Center To Host One-Day RFID Conference
  Supply Chain Market (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  "Unlocking RFID's Real Value," a one-day executive conference that will take place on Wednesday, June 20 at The University of Texas at Dallas School of ...
• Reva Systems' RFID Network Infrastructure Recipient of 2007 MITX ...
  Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco, CA, USA
  Reva's standards-based Tag Acquisition Processor (TAP) is an RFID network infrastructure device that uses patent-pending technology to deliver scalable, ...
• New RFID technology from Electro-Com for livestock identification
  Ferret - Australia
  Texas Instruments RFID (TI-RFID) low frequency (LF) RFID technology has been used to identify millions of livestock animals around the world. ...
• A2BTracking Solutions and epcSolutions Offer RFID/UID Webinars ...
  PR Web (press release) - Ferndale, WA, USA
  Webinar attendees will receive a complete briefing on how the UID and RFID movement started, why they became DFAR requirements and how they are being ...

News from June 11, 2007

• RFIDSupplyChain.com Offers RFID Training from Alien Technology ...
  PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA
  "The Alien RFID Academy training courses offer a variety of learning experiences for professionals at all levels of the RFID industry," says Karen Radde of ...
• Gratis RFID umbrellas track movements, excite marketers
  engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
  I never knew there was a market for umbrella rentals, let alone RFID tracking ones... Seems like another solution in search of a problem. ...
• RFID Myths and Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals
  ThreatsWatch.Org - USA
  Radiofrequency Identification (RFID) tagging of products by manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers appears to be the most promising approach to reliable ...
• Building Smart RFID Networks
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Hersh Bhargava June 11, 2007--RFID technology leads us to a world of connected objects, enabling inventory to speak for its presence and drive processes, ...
• How to RFID-Enable a Forklift
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By John Edwards June 11, 2007--Like a cup and saucer or a pen and paper, RFID and forklifts are a natural combination. Adding RFID reader technology to a ...

News from June 10, 2007

• RFID Case Study Book Released by Abhisam Software
  PR.com (press release) - Levittown, NY, USA
  Abhisam Software is pleased to release an ebook listing Case Studies of RFID implementations around the globe. This ebook is being offered free of cost for ...
• Staples Tries Reusable RFID Tags
  eWeek - New York, NY
  By Evan Schuman, Ziff Davis Internet The traditional argument against item-level RFID is that it only makes economic sense for products costing more than ...
• Now, bunking classes meets its match in RFID
  Kolkata Newsline - New Delhi, India
  A tech school in the city has come up with an innovative technology for automated attendance which uses a Radio Frequency Identification system (RFID). ...