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European EPC Competence Center to Provide Training at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe 2007 The EECC, founded by GS1 Germany, Deutsche Post World Net, Karstadt Warenhaus and Metro Group, will share experiences gained by these companies over the past four years with attendees looking to leverage EPC/RFID technologies.

Alien Adds Five Products to Gen 2 Portfolio Alien Technology's CEO told EPC Connection attendees that the company is seeing significant sales growth for closed-loop applications of RFID, rather than demand from goods manufacturers seeking to comply with retail-industry tagging mandates.

EPCglobal Certifies EPCIS Software, Foresees Stronger RFID Adoption At its annual member conference, EPCglobal says its work in setting and testing industry standards is beginning to pay off, and that its focus has shifted to helping companies deploy RFID.

NXP Boosts EPC Gen 2 Tag Memory, Performance The semiconductor maker's two new RFID chips require less power to operate and work across the entire UHF RFID frequency range, from 840 to 960 MHz. One chip offers 512 bits of user memory.

Wireless Sensor Adoption Expected to Grow Tenfold According to a survey of industrial companies, 40 percent of respondents plan to deploy wireless solutions to monitor machine health.

Small DOD Supplier Deploys RFID, Foresees Internal Benefits Nav-Aids, a 15-employee Canadian maker of test accessory kits for aircraft, has implemented a system enabling it to fulfill U.S. RFID mandates in-house.

ASD Healthcare Deploys RFID Refrigerated Drug Cabinets More than 50 hospitals are using the units, which monitor the quantity and temperature of refrigerated medicines that ASD provides on consignment.

BloodCenter of Wisconsin to Study RFID's Effect on Blood The testing will be part of an ongoing initiative to develop RFID standards for labeling and tracking the blood supply chain, from donor to patient.

RFID Academic Convocation Issues Call for Papers The sixth RFID Academic Convocation, being held in conjunction with EPC Connection, will focus on how to overcome impediments to adoption and achieve a return on investment from RFID and EPC networking technologies and standards.

Chemical Industry Explores ROI for RFID The trade group Chemical Industry Data Exchange has teamed up with EPCglobal to develop an RFID business model and foster RFID standards that benefit chemical manufacturers.