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News For The Week Of Nov. 24
Two More RFID Test Centers Open
Auto-ID Lab Puts Expertise to Work
California Holds New RFID Hearing
RTLS Drives Efficiencies at BMW
IP Forms RFID Alliance
Smart Labels for Higher Education
FEATURED STORY
RFID Employed Against Terrorism
OPINION
Trend Lines, Part 1
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TOP NEWS
Two More RFID Test Centers Open
Wal-Mart suppliers are going to need some way to ensure they can comply with the retailer's RFID requirements. Vendors are rushing in to help them out. This week, two more companies—RedPrairie and Xterprise—have announced the opening of RFID test centers for suppliers.
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Auto-ID Lab Puts Expertise to Work
The Auto-ID Lab at the University of Cambridge, England, has unveiled plans to offer commercial training and testing, starting in early 2004, to leverage its educational strengths and technical experience.
Full Story
California Holds New RFID Hearing
California State Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach), chair of the state legislature's Joint Committee on Preparing California for the 21st Century, held a follow-up last week to her Aug. 18 informational hearing on the potential privacy concerns posed by the implementation of RFID technology. Bowen told RFID Journal that consumers have no real legal protection against loss of privacy through the use of RFID technology.
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RTLS Drives Efficiencies at BMW
BMW Group has installed Siemens' real-time location system at its manufacturing plant in Dingolfing, Germany. The RTLS, which uses technology from WhereNet, lets BMW workers instantly locate and track any vehicle as it comes off the assembly line or is moved to one of 3,000 parking spaces on the factory premises.
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IP Forms RFID Alliance
As part of a nonexclusive strategic alliance, International Paper and systems integration and consulting services company ESYNC will jointly market and deliver a variety of RFID consulting and integration services focused on the Electronic Product Code and related technologies. The union will bring together IP's own RFID-deployment experience and ESYNC's supply chain consulting skills.
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Smart Labels for Higher Education
Inside Contactless, a French company that makes RFID smart cards, has delivered a total of 10 million of Inside's PicoTag smart labels and microchips to China's Ministry of Education. Chinese universities and colleges across a number of provinces have applied the smart labels to their students' ID cards.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
RFID Employed Against Terrorism
Pilots and actual deployments overseen by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security show how RFID technology can speed the movement of people across boarders while reducing the threat of terrorism.
Premium Content
OPINION
Trend Lines, Part 1
CEOs concerned about the high-cost of deploying RFID technology need to keep an eye on the bottom line, but they also need to prepare their companies for the future.
Full Story
Two More RFID Test Centers Open
Wal-Mart suppliers are going to need some way to ensure they can comply with the retailer's RFID requirements. Vendors are rushing in to help them out. This week, two more companies—RedPrairie and Xterprise—have announced the opening of RFID test centers for suppliers.
Full Story
Auto-ID Lab Puts Expertise to Work
The Auto-ID Lab at the University of Cambridge, England, has unveiled plans to offer commercial training and testing, starting in early 2004, to leverage its educational strengths and technical experience.
Full Story
California Holds New RFID Hearing
California State Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach), chair of the state legislature's Joint Committee on Preparing California for the 21st Century, held a follow-up last week to her Aug. 18 informational hearing on the potential privacy concerns posed by the implementation of RFID technology. Bowen told RFID Journal that consumers have no real legal protection against loss of privacy through the use of RFID technology.
Full Story
RTLS Drives Efficiencies at BMW
BMW Group has installed Siemens' real-time location system at its manufacturing plant in Dingolfing, Germany. The RTLS, which uses technology from WhereNet, lets BMW workers instantly locate and track any vehicle as it comes off the assembly line or is moved to one of 3,000 parking spaces on the factory premises.
Full Story
IP Forms RFID Alliance
As part of a nonexclusive strategic alliance, International Paper and systems integration and consulting services company ESYNC will jointly market and deliver a variety of RFID consulting and integration services focused on the Electronic Product Code and related technologies. The union will bring together IP's own RFID-deployment experience and ESYNC's supply chain consulting skills.
Full Story
Smart Labels for Higher Education
Inside Contactless, a French company that makes RFID smart cards, has delivered a total of 10 million of Inside's PicoTag smart labels and microchips to China's Ministry of Education. Chinese universities and colleges across a number of provinces have applied the smart labels to their students' ID cards.
Full Story
FEATURED STORY
RFID Employed Against Terrorism
Pilots and actual deployments overseen by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security show how RFID technology can speed the movement of people across boarders while reducing the threat of terrorism.
Premium Content
OPINION
Trend Lines, Part 1
CEOs concerned about the high-cost of deploying RFID technology need to keep an eye on the bottom line, but they also need to prepare their companies for the future.
Full Story
