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2011 RFID Journal Awards: Excellence in RFID
Presenting this year's winners.
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2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Best RFID Implementation—Gerry Weber's Pain-Free RFID Revolution
The clothing designer and retailer tracks garments from manufacturing sites to warehouses and retail stores, to improve inventory management and deter theft.
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2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Best New RFID Product—Reducing Food Spoilage and Waste
Intelleflex's battery-assisted passive sensor tags and readers make tracking perishable goods easier and more cost-effective.
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2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Best Use of RFID to Enhance a Product or Service—RFID Delivers a Royal Payback
Royal Caribbean is installing self-service soft drink machines on its entire fleet of 22 cruise ships, keeping guests happy and generating explosive profits.
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2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: RFID Green Award—The Greening of Mission Foods
RFID made it economically feasible for the tortilla manufacturer to switch from disposable corrugated boxes to reusable plastic containers.
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2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Most Innovative Use of RFID—Tracking and Monitoring the Deadliest Cache
Argonne National Laboratory has developed a strategy that uses RFID to safeguard nuclear materials.
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2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Special Achievement—Setting the RFID Standard
Chris Diorio brought together people and technologies to create the global ultrahigh-frequency specification.
VERTICAL FOCUS
Air Transport Industry Weighs Benefits of RFID
Airports and airlines that have adopted RFID technology show it can make myriad operations more efficient—cutting costs, improving safety and security, and delivering customer services.

Departments

EDITOR'S NOTE
A Challenge for Our Award Judges
The deployments presented at this year's RFID Journal Awards touch deep into companies' operations and deliver significant financial or safety benefits.
RFID MARKET
The RFID Industry Recovers
After a dramatic setback due to the financial crisis in 2008, the technology is showing signs of growth once again.
OUT IN FRONT
RFID Tags That Never Forget
Researchers at University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a software program that could lead to smarter, more secure passive tags.

Columns

ASHTON'S VIEW
The Wisdom of the Earth
China's leader really gets RFID.
INSIDE THE LABS
Securing Small Shipments
An RFID e-seal designed for ammunition, file or medical boxes can monitor for tampering.
OVERCOMING THE OBSTACLES
Designer Tags for RTIs
RFID providers have developed tags that make it easier and more cost-effective to track and manage returnable transport items.