Environment News

This section includes articles about how companies and individuals can use RFID to improve recycling, become more environmentally responsible and reduce human impact on the environment.

Boeing, Hanmi Pharmaceutical, Impinj Among Winners of 2013 RFID Journal Awards

The winners for Best RFID Implementation, Most Innovative Use of RFID, Best Use of RFID to Enhance a Product or Service, Best in Show, Special Achievement and the RFID Green Award were announced today at the RFID Journal LIVE! conference.

Tags: Health Care, Pharmaceutical, IT/Infrastructure, Asset Tracking, Innovation, RFID Journal Awards, Environment, RFID Channel

• RFID Sensors Help Macau Museums Protect Art and Artifacts
• Norwegian Trash Collector Uses RFID to Clean Up Its Operations
• At Edmonton's Aggregate-Recycling Facilities, RFID Provides an Extra Eye
• Walki Launches Service Using Lasers to Make Tag Antennas
• Finalists Unveiled for Sixth Annual RFID Journal Awards
• Asset-Tracking Technology Helps iGPS Rescue Its Pallets
• RFID on Lookout for Wildfires in China
• Phish Foundation Saves Labor at Concerts
• Construction Waste-Management Company Uses RFID and GPS

Environment Case Studies

Lufthansa Technik Automates Supply Management

The logistics services division turned to RFID to track time-sensitive materials and build a greener business.

Tags: Aerospace, Manufacturing, Logistics, Supply Chain, Asset Tracking, Environment

• Extracting New Value From Old Printers
• RFID Goes on Safari
• 2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: RFID Green Award—The Greening of Mission Foods
• 2010 RFID Journal Award: Minera Norge Takes RFID to the Arctic Edge

Environment Features

RFID Journal LIVE! Europe—UK Report

At RFID Journal's first event in London, presenters explained how businesses can employ radio frequency identification technologies for a variety of applications in retail, manufacturing, supply chain and marketing. View the presentations from the event.

Tags: Automotive, Chemical, Defense, Aerospace, Health Care, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Packaging, Labeling, Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods, Transport, Logistics, Apparel, Supply Chain, IT/Infrastructure, Asset Tracking, Security and Access Control, Payment Systems, RFID Standards, Privacy, Innovation, Operations, Environment, Inventory / Warehouse Management, RFID Channel, EPC Technology, Sensors

• RFID Journal LIVE! Europe—Scandinavia Report
• Europe Is Rolling Out RFID
• RFID Helps Prevent Sewer Disasters
• RFID Journal LIVE! 2012 Report, Part 2

Environment Editor's Notes

• The Year That Was
• RFID Can Aid Green Initiatives
• Learning From the RFID Learned
• Latin America Gets Serious About RFID

Environment Expert Views

RFID's Land of Opportunity: the Middle East

The region's oil and gas industry possesses a distinctive collection of traits that offer a phenomenal potential for RFID and RTLS technology adoption.

Tags: Chemical, Manufacturing, IT/Infrastructure, Asset Tracking, Security and Access Control, Operations, Environment, Inventory / Warehouse Management

• The U.S. Shale Gas Boom Is a Great Opportunity for RFID
• RFID and Global Warming
• Honeybees Are in Trouble—and RFID Can Help
• Put RFID in the Trash

Environment Best Practices

Thinking Inside the Box

A new era of smart packaging—embedding RFID in boxes—is on the horizon. But first, technical challenges and cost concerns need to be overcome.

Tags: Manufacturing, Packaging, Supply Chain, Environment

Environment Videos

• RFID Green Award Winner: City of Grand Rapids
  This award is given to the end-user company that demonstrates the best use of RFID technology to improve the environment, increase recycling or enhance sustainability. Winner: The City of Grand Ra...
  Tags: Environment, LIVE 2013 Track, RFID Journal Awards
• RFID Green Award Finalist: Riverside Health Fitness Center
  The top three finalists will each have 15 minutes to make a presentation. This award will be given to the end-user company that has demonstrated the best use of RFID technology to improve the environm...
  Tags: Environment, LIVE 2013 Track, RFID Journal Awards

Environment White Papers

• New ZigBee PRO Feature: Green Power
  Published February 2013
  In this white paper, the ZigBee Alliance outlines the basics of ZigBee technology, sensor control networks, battery-free communication, efficient energy usage, energy harvesting and more. The report explains the new Green Power feature included in the ZigBee PRO 2012 specification, which facilitates the deployment of wireless sensors in large areas, such as shopping malls, hospitals and parking garages, in which thousands of devices would otherwise need to be powered by batteries, thereby substantially reducing building maintenance tasks, while remaining environmentally friendly. (9 pages)
  Tags: Environment
• How to Design a Low-Power Wireless Sensor Network
  Published August 2009
  GreenPeak's Wim de Kimpe discusses a "green" approach to wireless networks, using no network cables or power lines, and requiring little or no maintenance over the life of a device, for use in machine-to-machine networks, as well as for industrial, control, health, security and other applications. (4 pages)
  Tags: Environment