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Alta Opts for RFID Lift Tickets
The ski area finds the RFID-based system for lift tickets and chairlift access gates requires fewer employees to operate—and its customers enjoy the convenience.
At Metro's New Future Store, RFID Helps Assure Meat Quality
The company's Real Future Store is using EPC Gen 2 tags to track individual packages of meat, ensuring its display cases are well stocked, and that no one buys expired products.
McDonald's Japan Brings Discounts to Phones
The company is sending coupons to consumers via their RFID-enabled mobile phones, which they can then use at its restaurants to receive discounts.
Anglo Coal Tags Miners' Cap Lamps, Vehicles and Tools
Although the main objective of its RFID system is to improve employee safety, the company also hopes to cut costs by better tracking tools between shifts.
Copenhagen Airport Pilots RFID Tags for Passengers
The airport is testing a system combining active RFID and Bluetooth technologies to create a detailed flow map of passenger traffic through the terminal, enabling it to reduce delays and improve its layout.
German Box Maker Heuchemer Verpackung Tries Tagged Plastic Pallets
The pallets' supplier has fitted the pallets with EPC RFID tags to track how long each one is in use, billing Heuchemer accordingly and potentially saving the company 25 to 50 percent.
Rugged Tags Survive Deep-Sea Test
Passive RFID tags deployed at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico for four months continued to operate once retrieved, according to the technology's developer, Wescorp Energy.
RFID News Roundup
Cisco teams up with RFID vendors on advanced location tracking; polish ministry of defense arms itself with active RFID; Omron takes RFID reader to Mexico, Brazil; Tagsys intros RFID system for textiles; Zetes, Schmidt partner to supply RFID across Europe and Asia.
Car-Wash Operators Find RFID Helps Them Clean Up
EPC RFID tags attached to car windshields quickly identify regular customers and make sure their vehicles get all the services they signed up for.
RFID Helps Miners Strike Gold
Several South African mines are using semi-active UHF RFID tags to identify gold and waste rock as material leaves blasting sites.
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