RFID Detector Card

Design firm Montie Design has developed an innovative radio frequency identification (RFID) detector card for sensing signals in domestic and international markets. ...

... "Small enough to fit into a shirt pocket or clip to an ID badge, Montie Design’s product enables users and installers to detect whether an RFID reader is actually sending out a signal. Installers or users need simply move the RFID detector card towards the RFID reader antenna; if the RFID reader antenna is actively radiating a signal, the center of the card will activate a bright blue led light. Depending on the antenna and the power level radiated by the RFID system, the card will illuminate as far as two feet away from the antenna. " ...

Via Montie Design: New RFID Detector

Motorola RFID RTLS Solution

Motorola launches its real-time location solution enabling the Wireless Next Generation (Wi-NG) architecture. The RFID-enabled solution creates a Real-time Location System (RTLS) that supports location awareness. Moto is promoting standards-based application programming interfaces for this solution to enable third party business capabilities. ...

... "Powered by the embedded RTLS engine, the Motorola Wi-NG architecture enables accurate location determination and presence detection capabilities for Wi-Fi-based devices, Wi-Fi-based active RFID tags and passive RFID tags. The solution can be deployed by small, medium and large organizations using Motorola’s full RF Switch portfolio in both indoor and outdoor environments. Motorola’s location solution is both RF- and tag-agnostic, and includes built-in location determination algorithms that can integrate data from third-party location engines. An industry-standard application level events (ALE) interface allows developers to create location-based business applications using location data. Capable of processing many location technologies simultaneously and delivering the data with a single XML-based interface, Motorola’s RTLS offers customers the most comprehensive and flexible location solution on the market. " ...

Via Motorola: Comprehensive Location Solution

Wynn RFID in Las Vegas Chip Detection

The gaming industry has been adopting IT enablers, such as RFID technology, to improve its monitoring and detection capabilities. The industry is expanding at a heated pace in Asia, where technology adoption is increasing. ...

... "Wynn Las Vegas started the RFID chip approach rolling three years ago, putting radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into its casino chips. These tags allow readers, linked to the casino's computer systems, to detect counterfeit betting chips. " ...

Via MIS Asia: Gaming industry IT applications

RFID Biosensor Smart Material

Coradyn Biosystems is a smart sensor materials company that has licensed a conductive polymer technology from the University of Texas at Austin. The polymer shows potential for use in molecular sensing devices in industry applications, such as RFID or wireless sensing, medical devices and diagnostics, etc. ...

... "Coradyn Biosystems is poised to take advantage of the dynamic biosensor market. The total global market for biosensors and bioelectronics is expected to grow from $6.96 billion in 2006 to $8.2 billion in 2009, at an average
annual growth rate of about 6.3%. Focused on providing advanced materials as an interface between a biological or chemical environment and electronics, the company's key technology is conductive polymeric materials that can be customized to recognize a broad range of analytes and convert that recognition into a measurable electronic signal. Coradyn's proprietary platform is an entirely new label-free detection chemistry, applicable to a number of formats and industries. For clinical laboratory testing, the technology yields results similar to antibody-based assays,
but without the need for these expensive and short-lived biological reagents. Other biomedical applications include personal health monitoring through a hand-held or implanted device. " ...

Via Coradyn Biosystems: Smart Material