A major automotive battery maker is using Seeonic’s SightWare-Seeniq system, installed on shelving, so that it can view whether its batteries need to be restocked at third-party locations, such as auto repair shops and parts dealers.
UPM RFID debuts a bunch of new UHF RFID tags; Voyantic announces upgrades to reader tester and measurement software; Omni-ID launches family of RFID tags for tracking tools, rental equipment; InSync Software unveils Sapphire iApp Platform 4.0 for RFID-, GPS- and sensor-driven solutions; Metalcraft offers double-sided variable printing for RFID and bar-code products; CipherLab intros UHF handheld Bluetooth RFID reader; CAEN RFID’s integrated UHF RFID USB/Bluetooth interrogator; InfoChip’s tiny HF Bluetooth reader, embeddable UHF tag; Jolly supports Zebra Technologies’ UHF RFID printers.
The system should make managing serial numbers easier for end users, while providing advanced users with the flexibility they want.
The aeronautical company has completed testing of STid’s IronTag passive EPC Gen 2 tags and readers, designed to track the flight times of parts, and intends to install the solution on its Dauphin helicopters.
The pilot used EPC Gen 2 UHF tags and readers to track the movements of cartons of goods into and out of an Auchan distribution center, to a store, and then to that store’s trash compactor.