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News For The Week Of Oct. 13
RFID: Cure for Counterfeit Drugs?
Military's RFID Alternative: IPv6
Proposed Standard for Ink Antennas
New Hybrid Bar Code-RFID Reader
RFID Startup Aims to Do It All
FEATURED STORY
SAP Takes RFID into the Enterprise
OPINION
Education Is Key
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RFID: Cure for Counterfeit Drugs?
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has found itself swallowing a bitter pill: Drug counterfeiting is on the rise. Many of these fake, diluted and mislabeled medications pose a health threat to patients and a financial risk to manufacturers and others in the healthcare industry. The best medicine against counterfeiting? Some in the pharmaceutical industry believe it may be RFID tags carrying Electronic Product Codes.
Full Story
Military's RFID Alternative: IPv6
ODIN Technologies, an auto-ID consulting and integration company in Reston, Va., has produced a white paper that suggests the military could use a new version of the Internet Protocol to track items with RFID tags. The authors say that if the Electronic Product Code created by the Auto-ID Center doesn't catch on, the military could use tags that would carry a unique Internet Protocol address, which points to a specific location where information on that product would be stored.
Full Story
Proposed Standard for Ink Antennas
Precisia, a company formed by Flint Ink to develop conductive inks for RFID tag antennas, is pushing for rival vendors and RFID standards organizations to work together to develop a standard for testing and rating conductive inks and the antennas that are made from them.
Full Story
New Hybrid Bar Code-RFID Reader
Bar codes aren't going away any time soon, so companies will need devices that can read RFID tags and scan bar codes. The market is responding. Sirit Technologies has teamed with HHP to put Sirit's RFID reader module in HHP's Dolphin handheld bar code scanner.
Full Story
RFID Startup Aims to Do It All
With venture capital from firms in Germany and Austria, Meshed Systems, a Munich, Germany startup, wants to break into the RFID market by providing just about everything a customer needs: tags, readers, software and integration services.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
SAP Takes RFID into the Enterprise
SAP, the world's largest enterprise resource planning vendor, was the first major software company to sponsor the Auto-ID Center and the development of the Electronic Product Code. It has also done RFID research with a number of universities. This Vendor Profile explains how the German software giant intends to take advantage of RFID technology to provide its customers with a much greater level of supply chain efficiency than was ever possible before.
Premium Content
OPINION
Education Is Key
There's a dangerous knowledge gap between early adopters, such as Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense, and just about everyone else.
Full Story
RFID: Cure for Counterfeit Drugs?
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has found itself swallowing a bitter pill: Drug counterfeiting is on the rise. Many of these fake, diluted and mislabeled medications pose a health threat to patients and a financial risk to manufacturers and others in the healthcare industry. The best medicine against counterfeiting? Some in the pharmaceutical industry believe it may be RFID tags carrying Electronic Product Codes.
Full Story
Military's RFID Alternative: IPv6
ODIN Technologies, an auto-ID consulting and integration company in Reston, Va., has produced a white paper that suggests the military could use a new version of the Internet Protocol to track items with RFID tags. The authors say that if the Electronic Product Code created by the Auto-ID Center doesn't catch on, the military could use tags that would carry a unique Internet Protocol address, which points to a specific location where information on that product would be stored.
Full Story
Proposed Standard for Ink Antennas
Precisia, a company formed by Flint Ink to develop conductive inks for RFID tag antennas, is pushing for rival vendors and RFID standards organizations to work together to develop a standard for testing and rating conductive inks and the antennas that are made from them.
Full Story
New Hybrid Bar Code-RFID Reader
Bar codes aren't going away any time soon, so companies will need devices that can read RFID tags and scan bar codes. The market is responding. Sirit Technologies has teamed with HHP to put Sirit's RFID reader module in HHP's Dolphin handheld bar code scanner.
Full Story
RFID Startup Aims to Do It All
With venture capital from firms in Germany and Austria, Meshed Systems, a Munich, Germany startup, wants to break into the RFID market by providing just about everything a customer needs: tags, readers, software and integration services.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
SAP Takes RFID into the Enterprise
SAP, the world's largest enterprise resource planning vendor, was the first major software company to sponsor the Auto-ID Center and the development of the Electronic Product Code. It has also done RFID research with a number of universities. This Vendor Profile explains how the German software giant intends to take advantage of RFID technology to provide its customers with a much greater level of supply chain efficiency than was ever possible before.
Premium Content
OPINION
Education Is Key
There's a dangerous knowledge gap between early adopters, such as Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense, and just about everyone else.
Full Story
