A company named eProvenance is employing a combination of semi-active and passive RFID tags, as well as specialized ink, to track and authenticate bottles "from château to consumer."
To help avert errors, the system uses EPC Gen 2 tags to not only identify patients and bags of blood, but also the staff members who draw samples and administer transfusions.
The new law makes it a felony to scan an RFID tag belonging to another person without that individual's consent, and use that data for an illegal purpose. The bill's sponsor plans to introduce additional RFID legislation.
Using electronic seals from Mikoh, the company is selling models that can be sealed with RFID closures—as well as RFID retrofitting kits for previously purchased cases.
EarthSearch Adds RFID to fleet-tracking solution; Sirit, 3M join forces in electronic vehicle registration; Convergint Technologies, Guard RFID Solutions partner on active RFID; BA Systems intros interrogator that reads UHF, HF tags and bar codes; SATO Integrates Intelleflex's BAP RFID into its tracking software; Australia and New Zealand CIOs rank RFID as a top technology.
The Manchester City Football Club is issuing season tickets containing 13.56 MHz RFID tags, enabling them to unlock the stadium's turnstiles, and to function as contactless PayPass payment cards.
A Chicago-area institution implemented an RFID-based system allowing only authorized pupils to leave the campus during lunch, or to enter the student lounge.
The NOX system includes RFID readers embedded in walls, surveillance cameras and—in some cases—luminescent dust to track the movement of personnel and assets.