San Jose Medical Center Installs ZigBee-based RTLS Across 10 Buildings
The Kaiser Permanente facility is tracking assets for preventative maintenance or clinicians' use, as well as for monitoring temperatures of cooling and warming devices.RFID News Roundup
Tagsys secures $12 million in venture funding; Albis Technologies adds ruggedized tags, ATEX EX certification and a handheld reader; CSL intros new module for RFID handheld that adds GPRS/GPS; Gerry Weber picks Nordic ID as handheld RFID supplier; Balluff intros tech services for RFID, networking and sensor projects; Venezuelan Marriott employs RFID-enabled locking system.- Electric Company Gases Up on RFID
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- Retirement Community Gains Insight From RTLS
- Royal Food Import Expects E-Seals Will Save It a King's Ransom
- Circuit-Board Maker Adopts RFID
- Thai Coal Importer Weighs RFID's Benefits
- RFID News Roundup
- Geoffrey Moore to Discuss RFID Adoption Strategies
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- Battling the Status Quo
- Managing Everything That Moves
- Curing Health Care's Cost Disease
- What End Users Want From RFID Vendors
- The Decade Ahead
More Editor's Notes
- A Decade of Progress
- Innovative Warehouse Solutions
- Readers That Sense Distance
- The Longer the UII, the Slower the Read Rate
- Put RFID in the Trash
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- The Myths of LF vs. HF
- A Tool for All Industries
- Spanning the RFID Standards "Chasm"
- The Chasm Between RFID Standards and Implementation
More Expert Views
Defense
- Keynotes Announced for RFID Journal LIVE! 2010
- RFID Helps Naval Ships Defend Themselves From Missile Attacks
- Industry Leaders to Explain Benefits of RFID-Provided Visibility
Consumer Packaged Goods
- Royal Food Import Expects E-Seals Will Save It a King's Ransom
- EPCglobal US Survey Finds Strong RFID Foundation in CPG Sector
- N.H. Reps Pass RFID Privacy Bill
Health Care
Logistics
- Finalists Unveiled for the Fourth Annual RFID Journal Awards
- Royal Food Import Expects E-Seals Will Save It a King's Ransom
- Thai Coal Importer Weighs RFID's Benefits
Manufacturing
- Finalists Unveiled for the Fourth Annual RFID Journal Awards
- Royal Food Import Expects E-Seals Will Save It a King's Ransom
- Circuit-Board Maker Adopts RFID
Retail
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Realizing the Real Benefits of Asset Tracking and Management Using the Latest Technologies
Published March 2010Using a combination of the latest technologies—RFID, GPS, mobile computing and Web-based applications—asset management can be undertaken reliably and rapidly in a wide array of applications. This white paper, from 4hSolutions Ltd., explores how end-to-end asset management, when implemented properly, can meet the needs of today's cost-conscious and mobile workforce.
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Using PNR as a New Approach to Enhancing RFID Channel Security Via Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
Published March 2010Salman Altaf and Mumtaz A. Kamala, of the University of Bradford School of Computing, Information and Media, and Qudoos Yousuf, of Innovation North Leedsmet University, outline how retailers, manufacturers, hospitals, federal agencies and other organizations can use RFID to improve functionality and product quality, and maintain a good checks-and-balances system, without experiencing data security and privacy vulnerabilities. The authors discuss a proposed technique for preventing data leakage and providing protection against eavesdropping and interference, by spreading spectrum over the wideband, utilizing a suitable pseudorandom (PNR) code. (7 pages)
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The Use of Novel Information Technology in Military Medicine and Mass Casualty Situation Training
Published March 2010Jorma Jokela, a student at the University of Tampere, offers an academic dissertation on several novel information technologies, including short video clips, mobile medical information systems (IS) and RFID, which have become an essential part of education in the modern health-care field. In military medicine, there are special needs for novel technologies, especially when optimizing first aid and initial treatment in challenging field situations. Jokela's thesis studies the use of such technologies in the training of military medicine for mass-casualty scenarios. (126 pages)
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