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RFID News Roundup
Tagsys Unveils Tunnel Readers, Paxar Partnership
French RFID systems provider Tagsys is selling a new line of RFID interrogators called UltraScan RFID Tunnel Readers. The readers come in three tunnel configurations—30 by 30 centimeters (11.8 x 11.8 inches), 40 by 40 centimeters (15.7 by 15.7 inches) and 50 by 50 centimeters (19.7 by 19.7 inches)—and can be installed on conveyor belt systems in order to read item-level tagged products as they pass under the tunnel. The tunnels are composed of rugged housing that protects an array of antennas sending tag data to the Tagsys 13.56 MHz Medio L2000 interrogator, which can read the Tagsys C370 tag, as well as most ISO 18000-compliant tags. The tunnels can also accommodate sensors that trigger the reader to search for tags in its interrogation zone. The tunnel interrogators are optimized to read as many as 100 tagged items moving at up to 30 feet per minute. Tagsys says it has already deployed more than 50 of the tunnels for end users tracking item-level-tagged pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics and other goods. The tunnel readers are available now, but pricing has not yet been released. Tagsys also announced a partnership with Paxar, a supplier of Monarch-brand printer-encoders, to integrate Tagsys’ RFID tags into Paxar’s product labels. Ranging from fabric care and content labels to woven labels and self-adhesive labels, the RFID-enabled labels will be used for identifying goods at the item level or for identifying cases containing multiple items.
Click Commerce Opening RFID Competency Center
Click Commerce, a provider of warehouse and supply chain management software, is opening a demonstration center next week at its Chicago headquarters to highlight its supply chain management solutions. This will includes its RFID-enabled Intelligent Supply Chain platform, which is being offered through a partnership with Vue Technology (see Click and Vue Partnering on RFID Warehouse Solution). Click says the Competency Center, as it will be named, will feature EPC Gen 2-capable RFID interrogators from Symbol Technologies. Demonstrations will show sample RFID-tagged products as they move through a simulated supply chain, from the point of manufacture to retail store shelf. Using RFID-enabled shelves and software from Vue together with Click’s warehouse management and supply chain execution systems, it will also show how tagged cases and items can be tracked through each point in the supply chain.
Golf Fans Can Pay with PayPass
This year, attendees of 14 PGA and other professional golf tournaments will be able to purchase food and beverages from the Prom Catering concessionaire by using MasterCard PayPass-enabled credit or debit cards or payment fobs embedded with RFID tags complying with the ISO 14443 standard. Prom Catering will use RFID-enabled payment terminals that accept the devices and transmit encrypted credit card information. Such terminals will be located at stands in high-traffic areas near the first, ninth, 10th and 18th holes. The terminals also process transactions using cards with standard magnetic stripes. A pilot test of the devices last year proved successful: Prom increase its credit card revenue at the test event by approximately 75 percent over credit card sales at the same event the previous year, mostly based on PayPass devices. Payments made with the PayPass devices do not require signatures, enabling the concessionaire to process transactions more quickly and reduce patrons’ wait times. Among the events at which Prom will accept PayPass are the FBR Open in Scottsdale, Ariz., Feb. 2-5; the U.S. Open in Mamaroneck, N.Y., June 15-18; and the Tour Championship in Atlanta, Nov. 2-5.
French RFID systems provider Tagsys is selling a new line of RFID interrogators called UltraScan RFID Tunnel Readers. The readers come in three tunnel configurations—30 by 30 centimeters (11.8 x 11.8 inches), 40 by 40 centimeters (15.7 by 15.7 inches) and 50 by 50 centimeters (19.7 by 19.7 inches)—and can be installed on conveyor belt systems in order to read item-level tagged products as they pass under the tunnel. The tunnels are composed of rugged housing that protects an array of antennas sending tag data to the Tagsys 13.56 MHz Medio L2000 interrogator, which can read the Tagsys C370 tag, as well as most ISO 18000-compliant tags. The tunnels can also accommodate sensors that trigger the reader to search for tags in its interrogation zone. The tunnel interrogators are optimized to read as many as 100 tagged items moving at up to 30 feet per minute. Tagsys says it has already deployed more than 50 of the tunnels for end users tracking item-level-tagged pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics and other goods. The tunnel readers are available now, but pricing has not yet been released. Tagsys also announced a partnership with Paxar, a supplier of Monarch-brand printer-encoders, to integrate Tagsys’ RFID tags into Paxar’s product labels. Ranging from fabric care and content labels to woven labels and self-adhesive labels, the RFID-enabled labels will be used for identifying goods at the item level or for identifying cases containing multiple items.
Click Commerce Opening RFID Competency Center
Click Commerce, a provider of warehouse and supply chain management software, is opening a demonstration center next week at its Chicago headquarters to highlight its supply chain management solutions. This will includes its RFID-enabled Intelligent Supply Chain platform, which is being offered through a partnership with Vue Technology (see Click and Vue Partnering on RFID Warehouse Solution). Click says the Competency Center, as it will be named, will feature EPC Gen 2-capable RFID interrogators from Symbol Technologies. Demonstrations will show sample RFID-tagged products as they move through a simulated supply chain, from the point of manufacture to retail store shelf. Using RFID-enabled shelves and software from Vue together with Click’s warehouse management and supply chain execution systems, it will also show how tagged cases and items can be tracked through each point in the supply chain.
Golf Fans Can Pay with PayPass
This year, attendees of 14 PGA and other professional golf tournaments will be able to purchase food and beverages from the Prom Catering concessionaire by using MasterCard PayPass-enabled credit or debit cards or payment fobs embedded with RFID tags complying with the ISO 14443 standard. Prom Catering will use RFID-enabled payment terminals that accept the devices and transmit encrypted credit card information. Such terminals will be located at stands in high-traffic areas near the first, ninth, 10th and 18th holes. The terminals also process transactions using cards with standard magnetic stripes. A pilot test of the devices last year proved successful: Prom increase its credit card revenue at the test event by approximately 75 percent over credit card sales at the same event the previous year, mostly based on PayPass devices. Payments made with the PayPass devices do not require signatures, enabling the concessionaire to process transactions more quickly and reduce patrons’ wait times. Among the events at which Prom will accept PayPass are the FBR Open in Scottsdale, Ariz., Feb. 2-5; the U.S. Open in Mamaroneck, N.Y., June 15-18; and the Tour Championship in Atlanta, Nov. 2-5.
