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| RFID Weekly News Roundup -- September 3, 2009 | 09/03/2009 |
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Investment to develop RFID tags to secure pharmaceuticals plus RTLS contract agreements by a major hospital supplier highlight this week's RFID news, which also includes several NFC developments. |
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| Flexible Battery Maker Lands Funding for RFID Production | 07/28/2009 |
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Flexible battery manufacturer Blue Spark Technologies has closed $1.5 million of an anticipated $5 million round of Series B funding. The new funding will be used to support production ramp-up for large volumes of battery-assisted passive RFID tags. |
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| STMicroelectronics Offers Active RFID Development Kit | 05/12/2009 |
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STMicroelectronics has released a hardware developer kit (HDK) that will help integrators and other solution providers build ISO 18000-7-compliant active RFID tags and readers for a variety of niche applications. |
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| Mid South RFID Converts for Changing Market | 05/06/2009 |
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The UHF RFID industry today is much different than the one Mid South RFID abruptly entered six years ago by filling a rush order for 1.2 million baggage tags. This installment of our company profile series tracks the company's evolution and future outlook. |
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| RFID Tags Survive Hospital Sterilization | 04/07/2009 |
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The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Medical Center is using RTLS tags from Awarepoint to track surgical instrumentation throughout the sterilization process. |
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| Cooler Heads Prevail with RFID-enabled Helmets | 03/09/2009 |
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HotHead Sports is introducing football helmets with integrated temperature sensors and active RFID tags that will alert trainers to possible heat stroke, which has killed 33 players since 2005. The firm is also developing RFID-enabled hardhats and helmets for firefighters and soldiers. |
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| Saudi Post Updates RFID System for Carriers | 03/05/2009 |
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Saudi Post is updating its RFID mail tracking system to use handheld computers that have RFID reading and GPS functionality. Mail carriers use the handhelds to record pickups from RFID-enabled mailboxes, and sample letters with embedded RFID tags are tracked in processing centers. |
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| Not Bitter, Better. RFID Improves Lemon Distribution | 02/26/2009 |
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A lemon grower in Argentina uses wireless mobile computers, RFID wristbands on workers, and tags on bins to accurately credit workers for the produce they pick and to track the produce during processing. The system currently is used to process 3,500 bins per day and is being expanded. |
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| Memorable Development: Tego Releases 32K RFID Tags | 02/23/2009 |
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Tego has released passive UHF tags with up to 32 kilobytes of user memory. The startup says the tags can last 20 years and are compatible with EPCglobal Gen2 and ISO 18000-6C standards, so no propriety equipment is needed to read and encode them. |
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| Irish Factory Using Active RFID for 'e-Kanban' | 02/19/2009 |
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A factory in Ireland leveraged its existing WiFi wireless LAN to support a new active RFID parts replenishment system. Workers at Thermo King, which manufactures temperature control systems used in logistics, use call buttons interfaced to active RFID tags to signal that parts are needed at workstations. |
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