RFID Paper Rolls

Sonoco and IPICO introduce RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology into the paper supply chain. ...

... "Using IPICO's dual frequency technology, the new fiber cores allow customers to automatically identify, track, and locate paper rolls at any point in the supply chain. IPICO and Sonoco have developed a unique process by which RFID technology is embedded in fiber-based cores. Sonoco is using this process to produce its new Intellicore engineered carriers which are specifically designed to meet the unique needs of paper manufactures, said John Colyer, Sonoco vice president, Industrial Products - North America. This technology can be read through any size of paper roll, which allows for easy management throughout the product's life cycle. " ...

Via Sonoco: Embedded Identification Technology

Petroleum Industry RFID Solution Group Formed

Oil and gas industry stakeholders collaborate to better understand the application of RFID technology to their business processes. ...

... "The Oil & Gas RFID (OGR) Solution Group brings together select industry subject matter experts, academic researchers and technology service providers to identify, define, develop, and deploy cutting edge solutions for Exploration, Production, Drilling, and Product Manufacturing in the Oil & Gas market. " ...

Via RFID Solution Group: Radio Frequency Identification within the Oil & Gas Industry

RFID Border Security Deployment

ODIN technologies named a deployment partner for the $62 million Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) contract awarded to Unisys. ...

... "The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) contract features radio frequency identification (RFID) combined with License Plate Recognition technology to secure our nation's borders and streamline the border crossing process. This program leverages RFID-enabled identification cards for faster border crossing identity verification. " ...

Via ODIN: Partner for Customs and Border Protection Deployment

RFID Easy Scan Process

Vail Resorts will use Intermec CN3 mobile computers with IP30 handheld RFID readers for its 2008-2009 season ski passes at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone and Heavenly. ...

... "The easy scan process makes getting through lift lines easier and more convenient by using RFID technology to give skiers and snowboarders holding 2008-2009 season passes the option to keep their passes inside their jacket and be automatically scanned by a Vail Resorts employee in the lift line. " ...

Via Intermec: Vail Resorts Improves Season Ski Pass Holder Experience

NextGen RFID Search

Japan project will mine RFID data for patterns to improve understanding of people's behaviors and produce better search results. ...

... "Among the strands of the project is one that will see NEC and NTT DoCoMo working on ways to personalise search results by analysing data held on RFID chips in phones and cards. " ...

Via TechRadar: Next-generation search mines RFID trail

Michelangelo RFID

New Prosthetic Hand: "Unlike similar models that allowed gripping with just the thumb and one or two fingers, the i-LIMB allows a user to grab something with all five. "

RFID Stent Tracking in Hospital

UMass Memorial Medical Center uses RFID technology to reduce costs, save lives by preventing mistakes, and reducing recall cycle times. ...

... "In UMass Memorial's shiny, four-year old catheterization laboratory, supply chain coordinator Raul Navarro slaps RFID tags onto boxes containing stents and balloons for use in the department's procedure rooms. " ...

Via Boston Globe: Stent Tracking

RFID AutoID Symposium

RFID symposium is planned for this Fall. ...

... "The 2008 RFID/Automatic ID Technology Symposium will be held from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College, 315 Turnpike St. The day-long event features inventors and leaders in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), bar coding, and other automatic ID technologies. " ...

Via EagleTribune: Business Planner

Korea RFID Beef Tracking

Korean officials implement tracking process for beef distribution. ...

... "And as the second step, either the radio-frequency identification (RFID) or the bar-code recognition system will be introduced in 2010. " ...

Via Donga: Beef to Be Traced

Sensor RFID System

Intel RFID Operations Acquired

Impinj acquires Intel's RFID operation and its award-winning R1000 RFID reader chip. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. ...

... "The acquisition of Intel assets further enhances Impinj's position in the RFID market by adding a proven, high-performance, highly integrated reader radio chip to the Impinj family of UHF Gen 2 RFID products. For developers of UHF RFID readers and reader-modules, the R1000 chip provides superior levels of design flexibility, integrating onto a single chip 90 percent of the components required for a reader radio. By delivering unprecedented performance, integration and cost effectiveness to a worldwide customer base, the R1000 chip enables all reader form factors - fixed, mobile, embedded and others - in applications across numerous vertical markets, including supply chain management, asset tracking, authentication and access control. " ...

Via Impinj: Intel UHF RFID Reader Chip Operation

China RFID Olympic Tickets

China plans RFID-enabled ticketing for the 2008 Summer Olympics. ...

... "All tickets to the opening and closing ceremonies will include RFID tags containing personal information about the ticket holder, including passport information and home and e-mail addresses. " ...

Via Danwei: RFID enabled ticketing

RFID Healthcare Installation in Israel

Wavetrend Technologies implements an active RFID project for the new Ashdod Medical Center in Israel, that creates the largest active RFID installation in the Middle East. ...

... "In the interest of achieving the best possible monitoring of equipment, personnel and high-risk patients, Ashdod Medical Center required full RFID coverage for all six operational floors of its facility. To meet this objective, Ardan will install a vast infrastructure of active RFID supplied by Wavetrend. Readers will be strategically positioned throughout the hospital, and an extensive array of tags designed to track multiple assets will be deployed. The real-time tracking capabilities that the system offers will allow the hospital to locate critical equipment and personnel in the event of an emergency, and also monitor the whereabouts of high-risk patients in real time so that medical staff can react to an alert immediately. " ...

Via Wavetrend: Largest Healthcare RFID Installation in Israel

RFID, The Boxes Know ...

IBM vid on RFID inventory tracking ...

RFID Tags Toll Road

Florida SunPass system adopts TransCore eGo Plus radio frequency identification (RFID) sticker tag as the SunPass mini. ...

... "The newer, more versatile and affordable tags overcome the cost barrier to widespread adoption of electronic toll collection technology, making it more attractive to migrate to all electronic toll roads and increase the number of customers who pay tolls wirelessly versus manually. The more than three million hardcase SunPass tags currently in use will work alongside the new mini tags.

The eGo Plus sticker tag is a 915 MHz radio frequency programmable, beam-powered, windshield-mounted tag. Packaged as a flexible sticker, this tag is ideal for applications that require low-cost, easily installed tags and is appropriate for electronic toll collection, airport access and ground transportation management systems, parking access, and security access. The tag supports multiple protocols, making it easy to migrate from a mixed-tag population to a common tag. Each eGo Plus sticker tag comes equipped with a factory-programmed unique tag identification number that prevents the tag from being duplicated. The eGo Plus, batteryless sticker tag offers a read range of up to 31.5 feet (9.6 meters) and 2048-bit read/write memory at a fraction of the cost of older, less flexible RFID technology. The tag provides the capability to read, write, rewrite, or permanently lock individual bytes. " ...

Via Transcore: Statewide SunPass Electronic Toll Collection System Orders 1.5 Million Tags

RFID Tracks Harvest Operations

Intelleflex and Minds Inc. collaborate together to integrated GPS, RFID and wireless communications technologies into a solution that enables real-time visibility into the field harvesting process. ...

... "Using this solution, growers and harvesters can track the exact location, timing and efficiency of each harvester, as well as the arrival, loading and departure time of crop transport vehicles. The harvesting of crops is a time-sensitive operation that requires coordination between growers, harvesters and transportation vehicle operators to obtain the maximum yield from each harvest. Reliance on current manual tracking methods can hinder coordination and slow work flows in the field, adversely impacting product quality. Using the Intelleflex and Minds’ solution, GPS units and RFID readers are mounted on harvesters to track their whereabouts in the field as well as the arrival, loading and departure times of transport vehicles. The information is then transmitted wirelessly for immediate access anywhere, anytime – over the web and mobile phones. " ...

Via Intelleflex: RFID-enabled Telematics Solution for Agriculture Market

RFID Transponder, Inlay Perform in Industrial Environment

Texas Instruments introduces the 12 mm Multi-Usage Wedge Transponder and 24 mm LF Circular Inlay to deliver improved performance in highly metallic and harsh industrial environments. ...

... "The 12 mm Multi-Usage Wedge Transponder offers improvements in chip circuitry that enable direct-on-metal mounting. The 24 mm LF Circular Inlay, manufactured using TI's patented tuning process, provides improved consistency in read and write performance in applications such as waste management and industrial production. The tags incorporate a number of TI's patented RFID technology and quality innovations including half-duplex (HDX) radio communication. HDX boosts read range by 50 percent compared with full-duplex (FDX) LF and offers a stronger RF signal because the HDX reader shuts down during the HDX tag's response. This allows the HDX reader to concentrate on receiving the signal thereby obtaining an accurate read as compared to FDX. In FDX systems, the reader signal remains on and may create RF interference as it attempts to read the FDX tag. HDX also features frequency shift keying technology which makes TI's tags more immune to electromagnetic interference (EMI) and other ambient environmental noise, allowing the reader to effectively read and differentiate tags that are close together. " ...

Via TI: RFID Asset Visibility in Harsh and Metallic Environments

RFID Smart Shelf System Pilot Program

3M completes implementation of RFID Smart Shelf System for management of medical files for U.S. Army personnel and their family members at Fort Hood, Texas. The contract is for three-years at a value of $3.76-million for training and maintenance services. Fort Hood, near Austin Texas, is the country's largest active-duty domestic armed forces facility. ...

... "The custom-designed 3M RFID Smart Shelf System is the centerpiece of a pilot program that may be extended to other military installations after a period of evaluation. The system is intended to substantially reduce errors and inefficiencies associated with manual tracking, retrieval, filing and file merging methods of medical records management at Fort Hood, where thousands of files may be in use at the base's six clinics during any given month. In turn, such improvement would make a positive impact on operational efficiencies in health care delivery, the troop deployment process, and the management of medical data collection. One of the top priorities of the system is to provide virtually instant accessibility to complete medical records for soldiers and their family members requiring intensive and complex healthcare services. " ...

Via Sirit: RFID Tracking System Increases Efficiency in Medical Data Collection and Healthcare Delivery

Nabaztag RFID Demo

RFID Item-Level Demonstration

Impinj founder discusses item-level RFID tracking ...

RFID EMI Interferes with Medical Equipment

Experiments with RFID in hospital environment shows interference between RFID systems and medical devices. ...

... "EMI by 2 RFID systems (active 125 kHz and passive 868 MHz) was assessed under controlled conditions during May 2006, in the proximity of 41 medical devices (in 17 categories, 22 different manufacturers) at the Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Assessment took place according to an international test protocol. " ...

Via JAMA: Electromagnetic Interference From Radio Frequency Identification

Oatsystems RFID Company Acquisition

Checkpoint Systems makes all cash offer to acquire OATSystems. The acquisition should be completed quickly. Product line synergies are expected. ...

... "Checkpoint and OATSystems offer complementary merchandise protection and inventory management applications that together strengthen their combined presence in the retail market. For retail customers, OATSystems solutions help turn large quantities of data from RFID hardware into meaningful and actionable information. These solutions enable retailers to enhance operational efficiency by obtaining accurate perpetual inventory levels, ensuring onshelf availability of merchandise that is seamlessly integrated within the framework of existing loss prevention strategies and practices.

Senior management of OATSystems, including Michael George, President and Chief Executive Officer of OATSystems, will continue to operate the business as a division of Checkpoint. The Company will continue to use and develop the OATSystems brand and software platform to serve retail, consumer products and industrial customers. " ...

Via OatSystems: CHECKPOINT SYSTEMS TO ACQUIRE OATSYSTEMS

Hawaii RFID Tomato Tracking

Hawaii pilots RFID technology for tracking of tomato produce ...

... "the Hawaii Department of Agriculture in April started a three-year pilot to track and trace tomatoes and other produce using RFID tags attached to produce boxes. " ...

Via InformationWeek: Hawaii Tests RFID

HDOA PILOT PROJECT: "The three-year pilot project is being coordinated by several of HDOA's division, including the Quality Assurance Division and the Agricultural Development Division, and will use Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) to track and trace food products from the farm to the consumer. "

Montreal RFID Bike System

RFID system is integrated into bicycle access control and location system. ...

... "Lighting on the front and back of the bike is always on for additional safety, and the bikes dock with RFID connection. Because the stations and docks run on solar power, they can be placed anywhere in the city and relocated as needed without worrying about connection. " ...

Via The Industry Standard: Montreal public bike system

SkyTrain RFID

Vancouver Skytrain RFID controversy - uses same technology as in London, UK ...

RFID Microchip for Student Tracking

Pilot program will monitor student movement using RFID technology. ...

... "The Middletown School District, in partnership with MAP Information Technology Corp., has launched a pilot program to implant RFID chips into the schoolbags of 80 children at the Aquidneck School. " ...

Via Natural News: Microchipping Students

HP RFID Data Center Management

HP launches RFID-enabled data center management service. The RFID technology will support visibility to assets and reduce loss, increase security, and improve management controls. ...

... "The HP Factory Express RFID Service tracks critical data center assets, such as HP factory-built servers, storage devices and rack enclosures, so customers can continuously monitor the equipment as soon as it is received at their facilities. When deployed as part of a full RFID solution from HP and its partners, the service automates and tracks device movement, providing an accurate inventory of all assets throughout their lifecycle. RFID is a data-collection technology that uses radio waves to remotely store and retrieve data to identify objects. It provides companies with up-to-the-minute supply chain visibility, including inventory, logistics and freshness dates. Data center asset management is becoming crucial to customers, particularly those with thousands of servers in multiple data centers across several geographies. Many data centers operate with manual inventory lists and have low inventory accuracy. With moves, adds and changes, keeping track of technology devices