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The Kaweah Delta Medical Center has adopted a solution from Draeger to capture health data regarding its patients, via a Wi-Fi-based telemetry tag worn around a person’s neck.
In a dispute involving fair-labor laws, an RFID system involving EPC Gen 2 tags and readers was temporarily set up within a factory to document how long workers remained on-site.
RFID Sensor Systems has developed battery-free UHF sensor tags that enable users to measure a patient’s heart and breathing rates, or the temperature of a product or shipping container.