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News for the Week of March 10, '03
Benetton to Tag 15 Million Items
Extending RFID's Reach in Europe
Hitachi Unveils Smallest RFID Chip
EPC Moves Forward at 13.56 MHz
Siemens Offers RTLS Technology
CASE STUDY: Air Canada GETS Asset Tracking
OPINION: Getting to 0HIO
Benetton to Tag 15 Million Items
Benetton, the Italian clothing retailer, has begun tagging clothes produced under its Sisley brand. The clothes will be tracked from the time they are made to the time they are sold. Philips Semiconductors says it will ship 15 million chips this year for RFID labels that will be put on the clothes, making this one of the largest RFID implementations ever.
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Extending RFID's Reach in Europe
Faced with regulations that currently limit RFID transmitter power, European companies have found that passive tags often fall short of the read range they need. The European Commission-sponsored Palomar project is changing that. This week, the vendors involved showed off an 868 MHz system that can read a passive tag from up to 4 meters (12 feet) away using a 500-milliwatt reader.
Full Story
Hitachi Unveils Smallest RFID Chip
Hitachi, the Japanese semiconductor company, has unveiled a prototype for the next generation of its Chip (pronounced mu-chip). The chip is just 0.3 millimeters square, roughly half the size of the smallest RFID chip currently on the market.
Full Story
EPC Moves Forward at 13.56 MHz
Tagsys, a French RFID systems provider, recently demonstrated the use of a 13.56 MHz RFID tag to track products on shelves. The demonstration, done at the Auto-ID Center's recent board meeting, was part of the process of certifying the high-frequency version of the center's Class 1 specification.
Full Story
Siemens Offers RTLS Technology
Siemens is filling out its MOBY line of RFID products by licensing WhereNet's real-time locating technology. The agreement with
WhereNet gives Siemens the ability to offer customers RFID products that can track assets from a few feet away to hundreds of feet away.
Full Story
CASE STUDY: Air Canada GETS Asset Tracking
Reusable containers and other supply chain assets often seem to sprout legs and walk off on their own. Air Canada used an innovative RFID system from Scanpak to cut losses and improve food cart utilization globally. The same type of system could be used in any industry with reusable assets to save companies millions of dollars annually.
Paid Subscribers Only
Getting to 0HIO
John Greaves, director of RFID at CHEP, has coined the term 0HIO, for "zero human involvement operations." 0HIO is a place where people don't have to scan bar codes, where people don't waste time counting inventory over and over, where people don't sit at a keyboard and enter routine information about what was shipped and when. But getting to 0HIO won't be easy.
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Benetton, the Italian clothing retailer, has begun tagging clothes produced under its Sisley brand. The clothes will be tracked from the time they are made to the time they are sold. Philips Semiconductors says it will ship 15 million chips this year for RFID labels that will be put on the clothes, making this one of the largest RFID implementations ever.
Full Story
Extending RFID's Reach in Europe
Faced with regulations that currently limit RFID transmitter power, European companies have found that passive tags often fall short of the read range they need. The European Commission-sponsored Palomar project is changing that. This week, the vendors involved showed off an 868 MHz system that can read a passive tag from up to 4 meters (12 feet) away using a 500-milliwatt reader.
Full Story
Hitachi Unveils Smallest RFID Chip
Hitachi, the Japanese semiconductor company, has unveiled a prototype for the next generation of its Chip (pronounced mu-chip). The chip is just 0.3 millimeters square, roughly half the size of the smallest RFID chip currently on the market.
Full Story
EPC Moves Forward at 13.56 MHz
Tagsys, a French RFID systems provider, recently demonstrated the use of a 13.56 MHz RFID tag to track products on shelves. The demonstration, done at the Auto-ID Center's recent board meeting, was part of the process of certifying the high-frequency version of the center's Class 1 specification.
Full Story
Siemens Offers RTLS Technology
Siemens is filling out its MOBY line of RFID products by licensing WhereNet's real-time locating technology. The agreement with
WhereNet gives Siemens the ability to offer customers RFID products that can track assets from a few feet away to hundreds of feet away.
Full Story
CASE STUDY: Air Canada GETS Asset Tracking
Reusable containers and other supply chain assets often seem to sprout legs and walk off on their own. Air Canada used an innovative RFID system from Scanpak to cut losses and improve food cart utilization globally. The same type of system could be used in any industry with reusable assets to save companies millions of dollars annually.
Paid Subscribers Only
Getting to 0HIO
John Greaves, director of RFID at CHEP, has coined the term 0HIO, for "zero human involvement operations." 0HIO is a place where people don't have to scan bar codes, where people don't waste time counting inventory over and over, where people don't sit at a keyboard and enter routine information about what was shipped and when. But getting to 0HIO won't be easy.
Full Story
