The Hong Kong-based company plans to use its acquisition of the U.S. label maker to expand its RFID tag production and R&D capabilities, as well as its global service bureaus.
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Hersheypark Uses RFID System to Let Visitors Pay Without Wallet
The park’s visitors can wear wristbands containing built-in RFID tags to make purchases via a prepaid account.
Remembering Bert Moore
The auto-ID industry has lost another great contributor.
RFID Goes Bananas
The latest advance in RFID technology helps keep fruit fresh.
RFID-enabled Lockers Help U.K. Organizations Manage Electronic Equipment
Britain’s Highways Agency, police departments and schools are using Traka’s lockers to monitor the storage of radios and other devices, as well as those who use that equipment, and when.
Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin Tracks Asset Locations Via Passive EPC Tags
The Texas hospital is the first to use a low-priced solution from U.S Med-Equip that involves bar-code scanners, handheld UHF readers and a hosted server.
Cybra Survey Finds 2.5 Times More RFID Users Than in 2008
The RFID software provider discovered that 54 percent of respondents are currently utilizing the technology, with 81 percent expecting to recoup their investment within three years.
RFID News Roundup
Market-research firms predict strong RFID growth for data centers, apparel sector; RF Code advances its temperature-monitoring technology for the data center; Tempsys adds Wi-Fi capability to its RFID-enabled temperature sensors; Oil and gas booming with help from wireless sensors; TagMaster receives new order from Bombardier for Sao Paulo metro line; Barco intros new ultra-slim UHF RFID antenna; HID Global achieves ATEX certification for tags.
U.S. Navy Tests Show Visible Assets’ Readers, Tags Can Operate at Zero Safe Separation Distance to Ordnance
The results, the company reports, confirm that its RuBee tags can be installed directly on or built into explosive devices, and be combined with a variety of sensors, to help diagnose and manage the maintenance, use and decommissioning of munitions.
New York Hospital Queens Tests RFID Inventory System
The acute-care facility has installed LogiTag’s Smart Cabinets and StockBox to automate the management of medical devices and consumables.
Word Is Getting Out About RFID in Retail
Forbes, CNN, and many newspapers and business journals are covering deployments at Macy’s and J.C. Penney, showing that the mainstream media finally understands the technology’s value.
Future-Patch Technology Tracks Cable and Port Connections
The system allows IT networks, such as one installed at the City of Reutlingen, to manage the connection of every cable to the appropriate port, and can issue an alert if the wrong cable and port connection is made, thus reducing network errors that could lead to down time.