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UCLA Group Offers Interference-Testing Service for Medical Devices The service, provided by the WINMEC consortium, is designed to measure how an RFID system's electromagnetic radiation affects the operation of infusion pumps, pacemakers and other medical equipment.

Time Domain Enhances Its UWB Location System The company's PLUS 2.0 system, which uses active ultra-wide band RFID tags, costs less but comes with increased performance and scalability, more options and better management tools.

At Former Landfill, RFID Monitors Workers and Waste As contaminated soil and hazardous refuse are removed from the site, a location-tracking system ensures that workers can be rapidly evacuated during emergencies, and that containers of waste are properly routed.

Chemical Maker Exax Expands Into RFID The South Korean company plans to produce HF and UHF antennas and inlays, as well as convert them into RFID tags, labels and tickets, initially focusing on the Asia Pacific market.

Leading Early Adopters to Speak at RFID in Fashion 2008 The third annual event produced by RFID Journal and the American Apparel & Footwear Association will feature companies from around the world that are using RFID to cut costs and boost sales.

Norwegian Food Group Nortura to Track Meat The company's IT subsidiary, Matiq, is teaming with IBM to deploy a system that uses RFID to track meat from the slaughterhouse to the store.

New Consortium Seeks RFID Standard for Oil, Gas Industries The Oil & Gas RFID Solution Group, made up of petroleum companies, RFID vendors and an academic think tank, hopes to develop a common approach to deploying RFID across the industries.

Utah Valley Regional Medical Center to Run Pilot With IR-RFID Tags As the hospital tests the system's ability to track patients, staff and assets, it also plans to check for any potential electromagnetic interference that may disrupt medical equipment.

Bechtel Tracks Man-Hours at Copper Mine The company's timekeepers will employ EPC Gen 2 RFID readers to capture the identities of construction workers, and to clock their hours at a Chilean mining site run by Anglo American.

SimplyRFID Upgrades Its Service By Upgrading Its Tag The logistics and security services provider has switched to Avery Dennison AD-224 RFID inlays to increase read range, data storage and security.