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PinnacleHealth Extends Asset Tracking to Community Hospital Already one of the largest active RFID deployments in health care, the system will let the staff at either site locate as many as 10,000 devices, from defibrillators to vacuum cleaners.

Spanish Postal Service Expands Its RFID Deployment Correos is now using a total of 65,000 EPC Gen 2 RFID tags, enabling it to monitor and improve the movement of mail at 56 sorting centers.

RFID Motivates Schoolkids to Bike It An RFID-enabled Freikometer measures the number of times students pedal to school.

ODIN Report Reveals EPC RFID's Effectiveness for Tracking IT Assets The company scientifically tested seven EPC Gen 2 RFID tags suitable for IT asset tracking, and analyzed five use cases, including employing the technology to manage memory cards.

Startup Offers 'Fail-safe' RFID Race-Timing System Using ruggedized EPC Gen 2 tags and redundant components, the company says it has created an affordable, reliable system for timing many different events, from canoe races to triathlons.

Kentucky, West Virginia Mines Try RFID Combined With Telecommunications To improve safety, the mines are adopting or testing systems that use Axcess International's active RFID tags and readers, integrated with communications technologies from Tunnel Radio or Foundation Telecommunications Inc.

Manufacturer to Track Half a Million Gas Cylinders Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. is using passive RFID tags to automate its bottling and distribution process, and to prevent the illegal diversion of its products.

Navy, Marines Track Assets on Oahu Military warehouses at Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay are using EPC Gen 2 RFID to track inbound and outbound supplies and equipment.

Zebra Unveils Wearable RFID Printer-Encoder The mobile device encodes EPC Gen 2 tags and supports both thermal transfer and direct thermal printing technologies.

University Students Create a Virtual RFID-enabled Hospital The group has created the facility in Second Life, a 3-D online world. The goal is to provide a way for health-care organizations to test RFID implementations prior to physical deployment.