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Tagged Umbrellas to Provide Market Research to Merchants Philadelphia startup Dutch Umbrella provides RFID-tagged courtesy umbrellas to local businesses, and tracks those umbrellas borrowed by customers.

Search Teams Put RFID to the Rescue to Help Find the Missing Rescue agencies in the United States and Canada are leveraging RFID wristbands and readers to cut the time needed to locate lost individuals.

Manufacturer Tags Vehicle Seats to Help Meet Safety Regs Grammer, which makes seating for a variety of vehicles, is using passive RFID to document when seats are produced so they can be more easily located during recalls.

W.Va. Coal Mine Tests to Locate Workers During Emergencies The company is using active 2.4 GHz RFID tags to pinpoint miners working in a 3.5-mile series of tunnels.

Eight RFID Labs Form Global RF Lab Alliance The goal of the group, which includes the University of Arkansas' RFID Research Center, is to spur large-scale research initiatives.

WWF Using Simple RFID System in Complex Project The World Wildlife Fund is employing passive RFID tags to monitor the white-lipped peccary as part of a biodiversity study in the Amazon.

HAMMER Combines RFID, GPS, Mapping, Sensor Technologies A research project supported by government funding has generated a device with potential use in a range of applications, such as mapping archeological sites.

Researchers Use RFID to Fight SIDS A team at the University of Texas, Arlington, has designed and built a device that monitors the carbon dioxide a child exhales, and sends an alert via RFID seconds after the infant stops breathing.

Fly-By RFID for Monitoring Power Towers To help operators of electricity networks monitor their infrastructure for corrosion or damage, IBM's IT-Services and Solutions division is proposing an application combining active RFID tags with interrogators installed on helicopters.

Researchers Develop RFID System to Monitor Acid Reflux A University of Texas Arlington group has developed a passive RFID tag and reader for wirelessly detecting the presence of stomach acid, gas and water in the esophagus.