A study from the RAND Corp. cites insufficient planning and training as major challenges for prison installations of RFID—but when installed and used properly, the technology can reduce violence and provide other benefits.
The Auto-ID Labs, which is spearheading research to connect objects to the Internet, has helped to organize a Japanese conference for academia and industry.
Russian Olympic city picks NXP’s Mifare Plus for transportation systems; Ohio RFID business incubator extends services to companies around the world; Equipment BC offers RFID-based meters for monitoring forklifts, machinery; Ryzex, Zebra Technologies launch educational microsite on warehouse management that features RFID; Ekahau Site Survey offers ZyXEL customers advanced Wi-Fi planning, auditing; Nordic ID launches new mobile RFID readers.
A system designed by Verayo and SkyeTek and marketed by GlobalPCCA will be mandated for all of the nation’s pharmacies, once tags are attached to drugs, to ensure that medicine is authentic.