May/June 2009

MAY/JUN 2009

Features

• PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS
• RFID Smart Shelves and Cabinets
  Smart fixtures help businesses store, organize and inventory an array of high-value items accurately and with only minimal human intervention. Here's what you need to know to choose the system that best fits your company's needs.
• VERTICAL FOCUS
• Zipping Up Benefits
  In the new economic reality, where the apparel and footwear industry can't count on consumers' boom-time shopping sprees, retailers are turning to RFID to increase sales, reduce losses and gain efficiencies.
• FEATURE
• RFID Helps German Publisher Put Focus on Ads
  A forward-looking magazine employs an emerging technology to prove that an old medium isn't dead.
• FEATURE
• A Bird's-Eye View
  The SMART Container, voted the best new product at RFID Journal LIVE!, provides a new level of visibility into cargo shipments.
• FEATURE
• Benefits Up and Down the Ski Slope
  Vail Resorts' RFID ski lift pass program enhances the customer experience while improving business operations.
• FEATURE
• An RFID Fashion Statement
  Switzerland's Charles Vögele Group discovers that fashions tracked and managed via RFID are always in style.

Departments

• EDITOR'S NOTE
• RFID Is Getting Better All the Time
  Presenting the third annual RFID Journal Awards.
• OUT IN FRONT
• RFID Sniffs Out Poison
  Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Georgia Electronic Design Center develop a batteryless RFID tag to monitor air quality.
• OUT IN FRONT
• Sensors Pinpoint Snipers
  Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Georgia Electronic Design Center develop a batteryless RFID tag to monitor air quality.
• PERSPECTIVE
• Economic Downturn May Spur RFID Adoption
  As companies work to cut costs and reduce overhead wherever possible, RFID technologies now look more appealing.
• PERSPECTIVE
• Déjà Flu
  For doctors and nurses responding to a pandemic, an RFID system could be a matter of life and death.

Columns

• ASHTON'S VIEW
• That 'Internet of Things' Thing
  In the real world, things matter more than ideas.
• INSIDE THE LABS
• Order Out of Chaos
  A fragmented warehouse equipped with RFID can save companies time and money.