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News for the Week of March 31
Merloni Unveils RFID Smart Appliances
1-Cent RFID Tags for Supermarkets
RFID Helps to Perfect Order Picking
Port Turns to RFID for Security
Fractal Shares RFID Design Facility
SPECIAL REPORT: RFID and the IT Challenge
OPINION: Getting IT Right
Merloni Unveils RFID Smart Appliances
There's been a lot of talk about smart appliances and a few have even been introduced. But Italian appliance maker Merloni Elettrodomestici is the first manufacturer to bet big on RFID. At a press conference in Venice, Italy, on April 4, the company unveiled a new line of Ariston appliances that have RFID readers that enable the machines to communicate with objects.
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1-Cent RFID Tags for Supermarkets
Inkode, a Vienna, Virginia, company that has the license for a chipless RFID technology, is working with partners to develop applications for protecting high-value items in supermarkets, such as meats. The company says its tags can be mass-produced for less than a penny.
Full Story
RFID Helps to Perfect Order Picking
Coping with 104 different brands and more than 18,000 different stock keeping units is a real challenge. Radio frequency identification has helped Figleaves, a UK-based Web site that sells intimate apparel, do it successfully. Now, the company plans to expand its use of RFID technology in stages to completely eliminate errors.
Full Story
Port Turns to RFID for Security
The Port of Houston Authority is turning to radio frequency identification to reduce the possibility that terrorists could exploit its facilities to get weapons of mass destruction into the United States. The port has joined the Smart and Secure Tradelanes initiative, which uses an RFID system originally developed by Savi Technology for the US Department of Defense.
Full Story
Fractal Shares RFID Design Facility
Fractal Antenna Systems, a company that specializes in fractal technology, has opened its RFID antenna/tag design facilities to other RFID developers and manufacturers. Fractal says these companies will be able to develop a new range of smaller, custom-designed tags that operate in broad frequency bands.
Full Story
SPECIAL REPORT: RFID and the IT Challenge
Companies must find ways to turn RFID data into useful information. This Special Report examines the challenges that IT departments face in the short, medium and long term, as companies deploy RFID systems.
Full Story
OPINION: Getting IT Right
RFID systems will present some unique challenges for corporate IT departments. In fact, RFID might well be the IT world's next ERP. The companies that get it right will get a big advantage. And the companies that get it wrong will be explaining to Wall Street why they missed their numbers for the third quarter in a row.
Full Story
There's been a lot of talk about smart appliances and a few have even been introduced. But Italian appliance maker Merloni Elettrodomestici is the first manufacturer to bet big on RFID. At a press conference in Venice, Italy, on April 4, the company unveiled a new line of Ariston appliances that have RFID readers that enable the machines to communicate with objects.
Full Story
1-Cent RFID Tags for Supermarkets
Inkode, a Vienna, Virginia, company that has the license for a chipless RFID technology, is working with partners to develop applications for protecting high-value items in supermarkets, such as meats. The company says its tags can be mass-produced for less than a penny.
Full Story
RFID Helps to Perfect Order Picking
Coping with 104 different brands and more than 18,000 different stock keeping units is a real challenge. Radio frequency identification has helped Figleaves, a UK-based Web site that sells intimate apparel, do it successfully. Now, the company plans to expand its use of RFID technology in stages to completely eliminate errors.
Full Story
Port Turns to RFID for Security
The Port of Houston Authority is turning to radio frequency identification to reduce the possibility that terrorists could exploit its facilities to get weapons of mass destruction into the United States. The port has joined the Smart and Secure Tradelanes initiative, which uses an RFID system originally developed by Savi Technology for the US Department of Defense.
Full Story
Fractal Shares RFID Design Facility
Fractal Antenna Systems, a company that specializes in fractal technology, has opened its RFID antenna/tag design facilities to other RFID developers and manufacturers. Fractal says these companies will be able to develop a new range of smaller, custom-designed tags that operate in broad frequency bands.
Full Story
SPECIAL REPORT: RFID and the IT Challenge
Companies must find ways to turn RFID data into useful information. This Special Report examines the challenges that IT departments face in the short, medium and long term, as companies deploy RFID systems.
Full Story
OPINION: Getting IT Right
RFID systems will present some unique challenges for corporate IT departments. In fact, RFID might well be the IT world's next ERP. The companies that get it right will get a big advantage. And the companies that get it wrong will be explaining to Wall Street why they missed their numbers for the third quarter in a row.
Full Story
