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Novel RFID Application Keeps Water Flowing Spring Water On Tap, a water delivery service, is working with AT&T to check water levels in tanks using wireless sensors, small modems with unique IDs and a cellular network.

Avery Dennison Ramps Up Its RFID R&D The inlay manufacturer hired two new engineering execs to build strengths in RFID testing and application development.

GS1 Hong Kong Launches Online Track-and-Trace Platform The organization says the ezTrack platform will enable the region's firms to more easily adopt EPC RFID, and to use the technology to gain end-to-end supply chain visibility.

New Zealand's National Cattle ID Project Gets $23 Million The funding should help the National Animal Identification and Tracing project meet its goal of having all cattle and deer in the country RFID-tagged and registered by 2011.

Omron Adds Secure RFID Protocol to EPC Gen 2 Reader The company says the interrogator is the first on the market to include support for the data-protecting protocol, developed in Japan and expected to be available on tags made with Hitachi's µ-chip Hibiki.

Asia Pacific Market for Passive Tags Expected to Triple by 2014 Asset management and document tracking are likely to be two of the biggest growth drivers, with UHF RFID sales taking the lead, according to Frost & Sullivan.

At Metro's New Future Store, RFID Helps Assure Meat Quality The company's Real Future Store is using EPC Gen 2 tags to track individual packages of meat, ensuring its display cases are well stocked, and that no one buys expired products.

Industry Opinion Favors RFID for Drug E-pedigree Comments received by the FDA show a preference for RFID technology—generally EPC—for a pharmaceutical e-pedigree identification system, with 2-D bar-coding as a backup.

New Zealand Kiwifruit Processor Finds ROI EastPack has already shipped 2 million additional trays this year through increased efficiency in tracking and tracing pallets of the fruit.

Industry Groups Study RFID at the Supply Chain's End New ISO guidelines explore the environmental impact of RFID tags, and how to employ them to facilitate product recycling; an EPA-funded project is studying the use of RFID to aid in the recycling of consumer electronics.