An article by Dirk Rogers, co-chair of the GS1 EPCglobal Drug Pedigree Messaging work group, suggests RFID is dead at the item level in the pharmaceutical industry. Here’s why his death notice is premature.
The networking-equipment manufacturer is using a mix of passive and active tags at sites around the world, to manage such items as test equipment, prototype circuit boards and servers.
An RFID-based solution from GE Healthcare and RF Code give the South Carolina hospital network a tool for locating equipment and identifying the availability of beds.
The project’s team is developing a hybrid real-time location system for identifying where a nursing home resident is within a room, and whether that person is standing, sitting or has fallen.