June 22 - 28, 2008

News from June 28, 2008

• Study: Is RFID Safe for Use with Medical Devices
  InjuryBoard.com - Tampa, FL, USA
  A new study, by six Dutch scientists suggests radio frequency identification technology (RFID) has the potential to interfere with medical devices. ...
• RFID technology to help speed, streamline border crossing
  Boca Raton News - FL, USA
  The CPB said this week "use of RFID will enable swifter processing at border crossings for travelers using new state-of-the-art travel documents. ...
• Study puts price on pharmacy RFID systems
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  According to a new study, an individual pharmacy faces a price tag of between $84000 and $110000 to implement RFID systems which meet proposed federal ...
• Georgetown, Gentag team for RFID-enabled glucose test
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  The method uses disposable, RFID-enabled skin patches and cell phones to monitor glucose. It could eliminate the need for the traditional finger prick ...
• New Product Demonstration Video from AdvantaPure Shows How RFID ...
  PharmaLive.com (press release) - Newtown, PA, USA
  P-E-T is designed to simplify record keeping for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and biomedical applications by utilizing RFID technology. ...
• Shuttle utitlizes RFID technology.
  ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release) - New York, NY, USA
  June 27, 2008 - Designed for Montrac transport system, self-moving shuttle with integrated RFID read/write unit runs along maintenance-free monorail track ...
• 3M completes RFID tracking system at Fort Hood, Texas
  Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles, CA, USA
  The company has developed and installed an RFID Smart Shelf System to track and manage more than 150000 medical files of US Army personnel and their family ...

News from June 27, 2008

• RFID Helps Endwave Track Work-in-Progress
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  The RFID-based tracking system, designed by Omnitrol Networks, makes that process easier, according to David Orain, the firm's VP of marketing. ...
• 3M Track and Trace Solutions Installs RFID Tracking System To ...
  WELT ONLINE - Germany
  3M has completed the development and installation of an RFID (radio frequency identification) Smart Shelf System to track and manage the more than 150000 ...
• RFID News Roundup
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Digital Angel, a St. Paul, Minn., manufacturer of RFID tags for identifying and tracking animals and other assets, has announced that its Destron Fearing ...
• NACDS Study Puts Price Tag on Pharmacy RFID Systems
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  By John Burnell It would cost each individual pharmacy between $84000 and $110000, an average of 0.88 percent of annual sales, to implement RFID and bar ...
• RFID safe for medical monitoring?
  CNET News - San Francisco, CA, USA
  RFID-tagged wristbands are currently used in some hospitals to ensure that correct procedures are carried out on patients. But the future of health care is ...
• Active Control reports significant progress toward MSHA approvals
  istockAnalyst.com - Salem, OR, USA
  The nodes are placed in operating areas of mines and form the wireless backbone of the ActiveMine network system; the RFID tags enable accurate, ...
• RFID can disrupt medical tech, claim researchers
  ZDNet UK - UK
  Radio frequency ID, or RFID, technology can interfere with medical equipment, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Medical ...
• RFID Tags Interfere With Hospital Equipment And Raise Safety Concerns
  Medical News Today - UK
  Researchers in The Netherlands found that Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) or "radio tags", that are increasingly being used in hospitals to ...
• Hospital RFID Tags Interfere with Medical Devices
  eMaxHealth.com - Hickory, NC, USA
  RFID tags are used to track various items, including - in hospitals - items like medicines and surgical tools. However, the study, to be published Wednesday ...
• Domino: RFID-Enabled Data Center Management
  RFID Solutions Online (press release) - Erie, PA, USA
  Domino Integrated Solutions Group, a global systems integrator of proven, practical data collection solutions, provides a full range of RFID systems that ...

News from June 26, 2008

• RFID keeps tabs on art
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  The French Art Network, a New Orleans-based art gallery with locations in several states, has begun using RFID technology to keep track of its collection, ...
• Israeli medical centre to boost safety with RFID
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Wavetrend Technologies is set to embark on an active RFID project for the newly built Ashdod Medical centre in Southern Israel. When completed, the project ...
• Another US library makes the move to RFID
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  The RFID system will include: Apex XpressCheck patron self-service kiosks; Apex RFID security pedestals; Apex PowerReader wand for inventory purposes; ...
• Study Finds RFID Interferes With Medical Equipment
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  By John Burnell Electromagnetic interference (EMI) caused by RFID systems interfered with medical devices in intensive care unit testing, according to a ...
• Swiss Town Rolls Out RFID System for Blind Bus Riders
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  A Swiss public transport agency, the Verkehrsbetriebe St. Gallen (VBSG), is rolling out an RFID-based system that allows blind riders to check transit ...
• Augmented Reality: Beyond RFID and QR Codes For Mobile
  Embedded.com - San Francisco, Ca., USA
  Of course this requires companies to implement RFID readers in consumer-grade mobile devices and RFID tags placed into the environment. ...
• Checkpoint Acquires Successful RFID Startup OatSystems
  InformationWeek - Manhasset, NY, USA
  Despite high-profile deals with Airbus and Kimberly-Clark, OatSystems decides to no longer fly solo in the shaky market for RFID technologies. ...
• RFID devices interfere with medical electronics, says report
  EETimes.com - USA
  LONDON — The use of radio frequency identification (RFID) in hospitals can interfere with critical care medical equipment according to a study conducted by ...
• Lack of RFID standards leads to media panic
  ZDNet - USA
  "The lack of standardization of RFID in health care permits RFID systems originally designed for logistics to enter the medical arena on the basis of ...
• GRIFS Meeting fosters discussion on RFID standards.
  ThomasNet Industrial News Room - New York, NY, USA
  June 25, 2008 - In effort to provide overview of RFID standards activities, Global RFID Interoperability Forum for Standards held its first Open Meeting on ...

News from June 25, 2008

• RFID Tags Can Interfere With Medical Devices
  Slashdot - USA
  An anonymous reader writes "A new study suggests RFID systems can cause 'potentially hazardous incidents in medical devices.' (Here is the JAMA study's ...
• Prototype Mobile Shopping Assistant Uses RFID to Tip 'n Tell
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  By Rhea Wessel June 24, 2008—A group of German researchers has developed a prototype mobile shopping assistant consisting of a PDA with a plug-in RFID ...
• Checkpoint Buys OAT to Become One-Stop RFID Shop
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Originally a leader in RFID middleware, OAT has in recent years evolved into a provider of various industry- and application-specific RFID software ...
• Intelleflex, Minds Inc. offer RFID-enabled crop tracking
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  RFID producer Intelleflex Corp. has announced a joint solution with Minds Inc., a information systems provider for the road construction and agriculture ...
• Another RFID-enabled bike system
  RFID News - Tallahassee, FL, USA
  Montreal joins the list of (often French-speaking) cities using RFID technology to create a public bike system. The Canadian city’s system, logically called ...
• Study: RFID Tags Can Mess Up Medical Devices
  Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York, NY, USA
  RFID tags. Photo: Associated Press Researchers took two standard RFID systems and examined whether they interfered with 41 different medical devices. ...
• RFID Systems May Disrupt the Function of Medical Devices
  IEEE Spectrum - New York, NY, USA
  24 June 2008—The use of radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems in hospitals may not be entirely safe, new research suggests. ...
• NanoEncryption anti-counterfeiting gains FDA approval
  In-PharmaTechnologist.com - London, UK
  NanoInk regards this as complementary to overt solutions such as colour shifting dyes or packaging based measures like radio-frequency identification (RFID) ...
• RFID infrastructure deployment for Spanish brand apparel manufacturer
  RF Design - New York, NY, USA
  TAGSYS announced that Bóboli, one of Spain’s premier fashion houses for children, is piloting an RFID deployment program to effectively track and manage ...
• Motorola RFID solution to be used by Lufthansa Technik
  Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles, CA, USA
  Motorola is to provide RFID solutions for use by the Lufthansa Technik Logistik business to track aircraft components. Lufthansa Technik will attach EPC UHF ...

News from June 24, 2008

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News from June 23, 2008

• Checkpoint Systems acquires RFID software pioneer OATSystems
  MMH.com - Newton, MA, USA
  By Corinne Kator, Associate Editor -- Modern Materials Handling, 6/23/2008 RFID software supplier OATSystems announced today it is being acquired by ...
• Nordic ID unveils cross dipole/RFID handheld
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  Nordic ID, a manufacturer of mobile RFID wireless terminals and handheld computers in Europe, has announced the release of a new hand held UHF RFID computer ...
• Checkpoint Systems Acquires RFID Software Company OATSystems
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  June 23, 2008—Checkpoint Systems, a manufacturer and marketer of RF- and RFID-based solutions for merchandise identification, tracking and security, ...
• RFID Markets to Continue Growth, but Majority of Activity Outside ...
  Supply Chain Digest - Dayton, OH, USA
  Anyone interested in RFID market size or growth needs to take the many projections of such by various analyst and research firms with a few grains of sale. ...
• RFID technology helps track all surgical tools
  TODAYonline - Singapore
  The proposal, by a systems integration services company, uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to give each tool and consumable a unique ...
• RFID OatSystems to be acquired
  Bizjournals.com - Charlotte, NC, USA
  The companies announced the acquisition Monday. The all-cash transaction is expected to close within two week. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed ...
• Alien Adds Major Capabilities to Gen2 RFID Readers
  RFID Update - Alexandria, VA, USA
  Plus, a passive RFID tag costs about one-one hundredth of an active WiFi tag." Stelter said Alien's customers have shown immediate interest in the ...
• Consolidation Continues in the RFID Marketplace
  IndustryWeek - USA
  For retail customers, OATSystems solutions help turn large quantities of data from RFID hardware into meaningful and actionable information. ...
• RFID Field Trials Show Promise
  Material Handling Management (press release) - Cleveland, OH, USA
  WASHINGTON-The largest and most widely-supported industryfield test of RFID technology on reusable transport packaging continues and isshowing outstanding ...
• Confidex delivers 1 Million contactless RFID tickets for Istanbul ...
  ePaymentsnews Network (subscription) - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Confidex, a Finish company specialising in RFID design, manufacturing and engineering, has shipped over 1 million limited-use contactless PET RFID tickets ...

News from June 22, 2008

• Best Practice Adoption of RFID
  Computerworld Australia - Australia
  Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is here to stay. Even though a variety of technical, economic and social issues are currently inhibiting widespread ...
• Montreal Brings on the Bikes, Along With Some RFID
  PC World - USA
  Bikes are equipped with RFID tags, so theft is (hopefully) deterred by wireless communications that allow administrators to track the location and condition ...
• Retailers pilot RFID/EAS shrink management
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  In tandem with RFID technology, the company says that its Evolve system can also increase inventory visibility and accuracy through in-store tracking ...
• Logan upgrades RFID inmate tracking system
  UsingRFID.com (subscription) - UK
  ... maintenance on a TSI PRISM RFID inmate tracking system that has been in operation since 2003 at the Logan Correctional facility in Lincoln, Illinois. ...
• IBM dishes out some retail therapy
  Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand
  IBM is working with one grocery chain in the United States to issue stickers embedded with RFID chips that shoppers can put on their mobile phones, he says. ...
• Montreal's Public Bike System uses RFID, solar power, and tons of ...
  engadget - Santa Monica, CA, USA
  Utilizing a central inventory and check-out website, solar-powered docking stations, and high-tech RFID-tagged aluminum bikes, the system is a gadget-maxed ...
• New Research Collaboration Invests In Technology To Improve ...
  Medical News Today (press release) - UK
  RFID technology may provide the key to better traffic management and improved pollution control in Canada, India and worldwide. ...
• Forum on RFID-based business practices
  Solid Waste & Recycling - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  "RFID-based business processes are changing the economic landscape both in Canada and internationally. They are being deployed in areas such as the ...
• RFID Is Now in Fashion
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  At the time, there was a great deal of excitement in the sector about RFID technology, and Mary Howell, AAFA's VP of industry relations, agreed that a ...
• An RFID Port in a Storm
  RFID Journal - Melville, NY, USA
  Upon arrival at a shelter, an individual passed through an RFID portal that's lightweight and designed to be set up in minutes. As Rita bore down, ...