RF Code launches new mobile management platform for data centers; IMI’s CreativeLift lifting magnets now come with InfoChip RFID technology; STid intros new modular RFID access-control reader, configurable wirelessly via Impinj chip; Spanish startup ThirteenFiftySix developing NFC wristband to control smartphones; Savi releases Savi Mobile Tracking System 2.4; Haldor, Belimed team up on real-time surgical instrument-management system.
RFID Journal’s ninth health-care event will focus on solutions that can improve patient safety, hospital operations and supply chain efficiencies.
By placing an EPC passive tag on every shoe sample, four Saks Fifth Avenue stores have reduced the amount of labor required to inventory the sales floor from 16 hours down to 20 minutes.
The project uses GuardRFID’s Active Label, a 6-millimeter-thick, battery-powered 433 MHz tag small enough for monitoring mobile devices, tools and thermometers.
Intel’s new processor comes with a built-in AeroScout active RFID Wi-Fi tag that can operate with new AeroScout software to provide security options based on that tag’s location, and help laptop and tablet users find individuals or items within their vicinity.
Despite a decline in the number of problems per thousand travelers, mishandled bags still cost the global airline industry $2.6 billion annually. RFID could help.
Live2Media’s Livecard system includes a radio receiver that operates only when its built-in NFC reader detects an authorized RFID tag and, based on that tag, determines which channels an individual can access.
New York Comic Con adopts RFID to control counterfeiting; Virginia High School installs Ekahau’s RFID solution to bolster emergency responses; Assuta Medical Center implements LogiTag’s SmartCabinet; Sentara Healthcare, Trinitas Regional Medical Center select Versus RTLS; Germany’s Kassel-Calden airport tests RFID to guide visually impaired visitors; Central College Nottingham tests NFC to help teach English as a foreign language.
The system, one of the many NFC RFID products and services that the company offers, is designed to encode a reel of passive tags at a rate of up to five inlays per second.
The event, to be held in London on Oct. 15, will feature presentations by Marks & Spencer and Wilkinson, and demonstrate the latest technology solutions.
The cooperative, which is tagging more than 1 million baskets, carts and other circulating materials, expects to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
As privacy concerns are addressed, consumers are beginning to seek radio frequency identification solutions to track their belongings, connect with friends and improve city services.