RFID Journal Award 2012: Best RFID ImplementationThe award for the Best Implementation of 2012 was given to Cisco System for its use of RFID to track more than 500,000 IT assets around the world.
RFID Journal Award 2012: Best in ShowThe award for the best new product at RFID Journal LIVE! 2012 was given to Omni-ID for its Visual Tag System, which displays readable information about moving assets in real time.
RFID Journal Award 2012: Best ThesisThe award was given to Cecilia Occhiuzzi of the University of Roma Tor Vergata, for her thesis, "Wearable and Implantable RFID Technology for Pervasive Healthcare: Human Identification and Sensing."
John Deere Planter Factory Improves Efficiency on the Assembly Line With RFIDJohn Deere, an agriculture equipment manufacturer, has increased its efficiency in how it replenishes welding material, as well as how it carries out processes at its assembly stations. After installi...
Enhancing the Inventory Accuracy of Products and Materials With RFIDMorgan Thermal Ceramics designs, manufactures and installs a broad range of thermal-insulation products that significantly reduce energy consumption and emissions in a variety of high-temperature proc...
Reducing Traffic Congestion With RFIDTo better measure traffic flow, the Texas Transportation Institute and a private research-and-development organization have installed a solution that reads government-issued passive UHF tags attached ...
Automating the Littoral Combat Ship Support Container Inventory Process With RFIDSpeed 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 out for a new one. The presence of a critical maint...
DLA Uses RFID-enabled Distribution to Support the U.S. War Efforts
By leveraging the relationships of its suppliers and customers, using new and exciting technologies, and integrating RFID into more of its logistics footprint and processes, the U.S. Defense Logisti...
What Capabilities Are Next for the UHF Gen 2 Standard?The original goal of the UHF Gen 2 protocol was to enhance a retailer's ability to identify, count and track items. But a UHF Gen 2 tag can accomplish much more than mere inventorying. Now on the hori...
RFID Applications in Boeing Aircraft Production and MaintenanceBoeing is a leading airframe manufacturer in both the commercial and defense sectors, with several projects employing RFID technology. RFID-based tracking and tracing of aircraft parts in both the pro...
The Internet of Things (IoT): An Update from the AIM IoT CommitteeWhether it's the Internet of Things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) communications or the Connected World, AIM Global has created a committee to examine the low-level issues associated with the Intern...
Thinking Outside the Carton: Using RFID for Document ManagementTrying to accurately locate a single file within a warehouse containing hundreds of thousands of cartons of documents, stacked six stories high, can be a daunting process, regardless of how meticulous...
City Uses RFID to Manage Pay-as-You-Throw ProgramResidents in the City of Lakeland, Fla., pay for refuse service on a utility bill based on the size and number of containers that a customer selects for service provided by the city. The use of an RFI...
RFID Produces ROI for CollegeWest Cheshire College, a vocational school in the northwest part of England that houses more than 20,000 students at its two main campuses, spends more than 80 percent of its income on staffing. Addit...
Serialization With RFID in the Pharmaceutical Supply ChainUpcoming track-and-trace requirements by individual states for the pharmaceutical supply chain, such as California in 2015, as well as higher-level electronic-pedigree obligations, have encouraged man...
