Naval Surface Warfare Center Demos RFID Tool-Tracking Solution for Combat Ships
The system uses EPC Gen 2 UHF tags and readers to identify items loaded onboard, in cabinets stored within steel containers, enabling the U.S. Navy to reduce inventory-tracking time from 32 hours to two minutes.- Finalists Unveiled for Sixth Annual RFID Journal Awards
- Brazilian Air Force Boosts Efficiency of Its Air Logistics Center
- Researchers Seek to Reduce Wastage for First-Strike Rations
- Sensors Track Consumer Goods Bound for Troops in Afghanistan
- Zebra, OAT Partner on Solutions Combining Passive and Active Tags
- KCF Technologies to Launch Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensors
- RFID Tracks Gear for Australian Customs and Border Protection
- Intrusion-Detecting Sensors Protect Borders, Troops
- Registration Now Open for RFID Journal's 10th Annual Event
Defense case studies
- The Ongoing War Against Inefficiencies
- 2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Most Innovative Use of RFID—Tracking and Monitoring the Deadliest Cache
- An RFID Roadmap for Small and Midsize Contract Manufacturers
- Targeted Attack
DLA Uses RFID-enabled Distribution to Support the U.S. War Efforts
Automating the Littoral Combat Ship Support Container Inventory Process With RFID
Speed in responding to threats is vital to a Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), which must be able to quickly replenish an existing mission package or swap o... More
Asset Management in the U.S. Air Force: Using RFID in the Global Supply Chain
RFID Journal LIVE! 2012 Report, Part 2
At RFID Journal's 10th-anniversary conference and exhibition, attendees heard real-world case studies explaining how to utilize radio frequency identification to improve their business. View the presentations from the RFID Journal Awards finalists and the event's main conference-track and solutions-provider sessions.-
Alien Higgs-4 IC Serialization: Simplifying Enterprise-1Wide Unique Numbering
Published May 2012Alien Technology's Higgs-4 integrated circuit (IC) supports a range of optional serialization schemes. These use unique numbers programmed into Higgs-4 by Alien at the time of manufacture, and result in minimizing serialization efforts across large enterprises. (8 pages)
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2.4 GHz RFID-enabled Solution Deployed by China Post in Domestic Mail: Quality of Service Measurement
Published May 2012The Shanghai Research Institute of China Post (SRI) sought to improve the quality of service for domestic mail delivery. China Post required a solution offering good performance, cost efficiency and easy implementation, and that would cause no changes or interference with daily operations. This article describes key points of the 2.4 GHz RFID-enabled solution chosen for this task, as well as its deployment by China Post in measuring the quality of domestic mail delivery. (13 pages)
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Unchaining the Value of RFID for a Fast ROI
Published April 2012This white paper explains how RFID can deliver a return on investment in a number of applications, including asset tracking, item-level inventory management, WIP and RTI tracking and optimizing shipping and receiving.
