Nokia RFID Retail Pilot
Labels: mobile-device, nokia, phones, pilot, retail-rfid, tags, upm-raflatac, video
Achieve Breakthrough Performance Through RFID Radio Frequency Identification and Auto-ID Technology.
Labels: mobile-device, nokia, phones, pilot, retail-rfid, tags, upm-raflatac, video

... "UPM Raflatac is supplying UHF EPC Gen2 tags to car logistics company Assistor for use in a new real-time vehicle logistics management solution. The RFID technology contributes to the efficient handling of vehicles in demanding environments, namely large harbours and warehouses. The complete solution has been developed by Digia. The system utilizes cost-effective, passive RFID technology to identify vehicles quickly and reliably. When unloaded from ships, vehicles are equipped with UPM Raflatac's UHF Gen2 DogBone RFID tags. An exact warehouse location is assigned to each vehicle so that they are easily located with a hand-held RFID reader. A total of 250 readers are used by the system. Each RFID tag carries information about all actions related to the vehicle during storage and production. " ...
Labels: assistor, digia, gen-2, location-tracking, management-system, rfid-technology, solution, uhf-tag, upm-raflatac, vehicle, warehouse
UPM RFID tags are used to better manage the mobile phone customer experience. ...
... "UPM Raflatac's DogBone tags are attached to mobile phone packages, while accessories are tagged with UPM Raflatac's ShortDipole and Belt products. In addition to global functionality, these UHF tags provide security features (EAS) for anti-theft purposes. FCC has introduced intelligent shelves with RFID reader antennas that monitor the stock and provide automatic notification if stock levels fall below specified volumes. This results in fewer out-of-stock situations and increased sales, as RFID tagged items are easily located in the store or backroom.
FCC's customers benefit from the RFID technology with enhanced customer service and reduced checkout times: the entire contents of a shopping basket can be scanned in one go at the point of sale. RFID also opens new opportunities for special promotions and cross-sales, as FCC has RFID enabled loyalty cards in use. " ...
Labels: checkout, customer-service, eas, intelligence, mobile, out-of-stock, phones, rfid-technology, stock-outs, upm-raflatac
UPM Raflatac supplies RFID inlays to enable attendee and vehicle access to the FIS female downhill ski World Cup on February 9 to 10. ...

... "At Piemonte Mondiale, all persons authorized by the event organizer will be provided with an RFID-enabled plastic ID card that carries their personal data and access rights. These cards will be used by all persons permitted to enter, from the press, athletes and invited VIPs to authorities and operators. The same goes for vehicle IDs: authorized vehicles will be issued an RFID-enabled pass. People and vehicles will be manually scanned with handheld RFID readers supplied by Brightpoint. " ...
Labels: access-control, authentication, brightpoint, reader, smart-card, sports, tags, upm-raflatac, vehicle
UPM Raflatac introduces UHF EPC Class1 Gen2 products that are built on UCODE G2X ICs from NXP. The G2X IC performns over the entire range of UHF frequency and can manage 240 bit EPC numbers. ...
... "It also offers reliable operation across long read ranges and in dense reader environments. G2X ICs are EPCglobal Class1 Gen2 1.2.0 compliant. UPM Raflatac is launching four different products with the G2X IC: Web, Belt, DogBone and ShortDipole. Sample quantities of Web are available immediately; Belt, ShortDipole and DogBone from January 2008 onwards. " ...
Labels: epc-global, gen-2, integrated-circuit, long-range, rfid-tag, upm-raflatac
Korea Airports Corporation will use 350,000 baggage tags, Rabbit RFID inlays from UPM Raflatac, to manage its airline baggage tracking. ...
... "By using RFID technology, Korea Airports Corporation seeks to improve its logistics efficiency and reduce the number of lost or damaged baggage. The RFID implementation project has a budget of USD 3.3 million being the biggest South Korean government supported RFID project this year. In addition to the RFID inlays, the infrastructure will cover 98 fixed readers and 85 printers at Asiana Airline's airports including Gimpo, Korea and Haneda, Japan. " ...
Labels: airline, asiana-airlines, baggage, country-korea, implementation, korea-airports, project, rabbit-rfid-inlay, track-and-trace, upm-raflatac

... "In March 2007, Glovis, an affiliated company of Hyundai/Kia Motors Group in charge of the supply chain management (SCM), will begin receiving RFID tagged boxes of automotive parts from more than 200 suppliers. In the first phase of the project, approximately 130,000 UPM Raflatac DogBone UHF RFID tags will be applied to parts boxes and packaging cases from five major suppliers for exportation to Hyundai/Kia Motors' overseas factory in Alabama, USA. In the second phase, 20 million UPM Raflatac RFID tags will be used annually to track all boxes and containers of automotive parts through the supply chain. Using RFID technology, Glovis will be able to track corrugated cardboard boxes of automotive parts through the major SCM processes, including delivery to the distribution centre, the repacking process, leaving the distribution centre, delivery to the overseas distribution centre and final delivery to Hyundai/Kia Motors' overseas factory. In the RFID-enabled SCM, the completion reports for each process are automatically collected by passing the parts boxes through an RFID interrogator gate. " ...
Labels: applied, automotive, barcode, distribution-process, factory, glovis-company, hyundai-kia-motors, info, interrogator, phased-implementation, project, real-time, rfid, rfid-company, suppliers, supply-chain, upm-raflatac
Nashua announces quarterly results, bolstered by sales growth in RFID product line. ...

... "The sales growth was fueled by strong sales in the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) product line, which increased from $581,000 in 2005 to $1.5 million in 2006. Sales growth in the industrial barcode, retail shelf and ticket product lines for the year offset declines in the supermarket and Inform product lines. Margins for the year were negatively impacted by severance and plant consolidation costs due to the closure of the label converting plant in St. Louis, Missouri and consolidation of manufacturing into plants located in Omaha, Nebraska; Jefferson City, Tennessee and a new facility located in Jacksonville, Florida. Pre-tax income for the quarter and year for the Label business was impacted by a one-time $0.6 million impairment expense related to intangible assets. The Company also incurred losses of $0.4 million related to its investment in Tec Print LLC. " ...
Labels: label, nashua-smart-labels, radio-frequency-identification, rfid, rfid-company, sales-growth, upm-raflatac

... "The Moscow Metro is one of the world's most heavily used metro systems, carrying 8.2 million passengers on a normal weekday. The RFID inlays provided by UPM Raflatac will replace the cards with magnetic stripe Moscow Metro is currently using for tickets with a fixed number of journeys. For seasonal tickets, the Moscow Metro is already using contactless RFID smart cards which enable significantly faster entry for passengers. The Moscow Metro was the first metro system in Europe to implement smart cards together with a new type of magnetic card in 1998. In the first stage, the monthly usage of UPM Raflatac HF inlays based on the Mifare Ultralight standard will be 5 million pieces. After a transitional period at the end of summer 2007, usage will rise to approximately 30 million inlays per month. " ...

Labels: contactless, contactless-smart-card, enabler, metro, mifare, moscow-metro, rfid-card, rfid-inlay, rfidsystem, smart-card, tickets, upm-raflatac
RFID China System Integrators: UPM Rafsec provides total RFID solutions in China through new system integrator partnerships
... "UPM Rafsec, a leading RFID tag manufacturer and member of UPM Group, announces today it has partnered with three new system integrators in China on a non-exclusive basis to better serve its end user customers. The three new partners are Ubhitech, Vision Electronics and Best Technology. Located in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou respectively, each system integrator has more than eight years of experience in the RFID industry and will provide total RFID solutions based on UPM Rafsecās broad range of state-of-the-art RFID tags. " ...
Labels: city-shanghai, country-china, design, electronics, epc, epc-global, manufacturer, production, rfid-world, standard, stock, upm-raflatac