Energy-Harvesting Sensors to Monitor Health of Jet Engines
The wireless sensors will be utilized to monitor engine bearings on F-35 Joint Strike Fighters while in flight, using their turbines’ heat to power RFID transmissions.
Will NFC Dominate Mobile Payments?
As banks, credit-card companies, smartphone manufacturers and others vie for dominance, much of the buzz surrounds a form of radio frequency identification known as Near Field Communication.
Industrial Meat Ovens Cook With RFID
Food equipment manufacturer Alkar is offering wireless temperature probes that have helped its customers save on labor, as well as reduce spoilage.
Is It Safe to Sit Near an RFID Pad All Day?
I work on a PC that has such a device attached to it, which I sit near all day long. Is this an unsafe practice? —Ellie (United Kingdom) ——— Ellie, The pad is a 13.56 MHz reader, and I’m guessing you need to place a tagged object within 8 to 12 inches in order...RFID News Roundup
Trimble updates ThingMagic embedded RFID readers; Identec Group raises $7.5 million in round of private financing; Google unveils NFC-based mobile-payments service; ODIN Labs completes benchmark tests on high-memory RFID tags; Frick offers new RFID floor tags for warehouse operations; HCT USA intros slim PDA with wireless RFID reader; U.K. contactless solutions companies, ACT and sQuid, merge.