Participants in Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s three-day, 60-mile events wear EPC Gen 2 RFID tags that link to Facebook pages, to update friends and family members about their progress.
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RFID News Roundup
HID Global expands its smart-card portfolio; ZeitControl announces RFID label with integrated microprocessor; new $95 million library in the United Kingdom features RFID; SAG announces RFID-enabled disposable wristband for security, access control and more.
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department Uses RFID to Track Assets Worldwide
The agency is piloting a solution that employs passive UHF tags and readers to better monitor the furniture and appliances located within the residences of its officials and employees stationed abroad.
Group Health Reinvents Patient Care With RTLS
The health-care provider’s new clinic, equipped with a CenTrak hybrid IR and active RFID system and Intelligent Insites software platform, eliminates the need for waiting rooms, lab visits and trips to the pharmacy.
With Apple’s iAlien App, Users Can Manage Readers From an iPhone
New software for Alien Technology readers, developed by Turkish RFID firm Teknopalas, lets users manage read data from their iPhone or iPad.
How RFID Is Transforming VA Hospital Operations
One of the largest rollouts of real-time location technology will help to improve care and reduce costs—and show other hospitals how a radio frequency identification deployment can be done right.
T-Mobile Austria Updates Prices Wirelessly
Thanks to RFID-based electronic shelf displays, the company can change product information across all of its retail stores in an instant.
Nike Korea, Nestlé Philippines Like U-Like
A number of companies have been using UbiU’s U-Like solution to enable consumers to share information and photos with friends via Facebook and Twitter, in real time, even when not connected to the Internet.
RFID News Roundup
Trimble expands functionality of ThingMagic RFID readers; Omni-ID unveils three new RFID tags for tracking tools, containers; Thailand’s petroleum exploration firm PTTEP deploys emergency-evacuation RFID solution; FileTrail, BlueStar offer RFID-enabled asset-tracking system; Axios announces first purchase order for its tagged pallets.
RFID Reins In Saddle Theft
An Australian company is inserting a passive RFID tag into every saddle it makes, to ensure police or ranchers can identify its rightful owner.
ProTech Sales Deploys Valve-Tracking System for Anadarko Petroleum Corp.
The company is using Xerafy RFID tags to identify valves, and to record when they are inspected or serviced at Anadarko’s oil fields in Colorado and Wyoming.
Enlisting Robots
Once robots are integrated into the Internet of Things, they can perform tasks automatically.