The Florida hospital is expanding its existing AeroScout Wi-Fi-based RFID system to track patients entering and leaving its ORs, and to display data about each patient’s status on a reader board.
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Getting Ahead of the RFID Market
Some solutions providers have instituted strategies not viable for the current state of adoption.
Kid’s Clothing Company Uses RFID From Factory to Store
Trasluz’s manufacturing plants apply EPC tags to all products, enabling the company’s warehouse to track their arrival and departure, and its franchise-operated stores to employ RFID for inventory tracking, at the point of sale and for security.
Survey Shows Half of U.S. Retailers Have Already Adopted Item-Level RFID
The survey, conducted by Accenture on behalf of the VICS Item Level RFID Initiative, finds that if tag prices continue to drop and adoption momentum remains steady, most retailers will be using RFID technology within five years.
RFID News Roundup
World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 deploys 20,000 NFC posters, stickers; CAEN RFID launches new UHF long-range reader with embedded PC and GPRS; Identec Solutions’ technology to safeguard personnel at Swedish nuclear-waste facility; FastPoint Technologies earns GS1 EPCglobal software-certification mark; SITA develops NFC demo solution for airports, travelers; Thinfilm establishes partnerships for creating fully printed RFID tags, sensors.
Researchers Seek to Reduce Wastage for First-Strike Rations
A Florida group is studying ways to track the temperatures of food rations traversing the U.S. military’s supply chain, and is developing software that would calculate how temperature could alter shelf-life.
Demystifying the “Low Memory” of Aviation’s Low-Memory Tags
Tego’s CTO explains why most aviation applications will require at least 2 kilobits.
Construction Waste-Management Company Uses RFID and GPS
Challande employs AgoraBee’s ChisFleet solution to track the locations of metal trash containers that may be dispersed to dozens or hundreds of customers throughout Switzerland.
Eurosonic Noorderslag Attendees Use RFID to Access Concerts, Workshops and Panels
The 3,150 participants wore RFID wristbands to gain admission to performances and seminars—and, in some cases, to receive beverages and learn more about a particular program or band.
Firearms Distributors to Track Guns Via RFID
American Tactical Imports and sister company AmChar Wholesale are deploying EPC Gen 2 RFID tags and readers to create a record of when firearms are received, stored and shipped, and to send an alert if a weapon ends up missing.
Lipa Betoni Uses Bluetooth-Based RTLS to Manage Production
The Finnish precast-concrete manufacturer says 9Solutions’ Indoor Positioning and Communication Solution is helping it to become more efficient.
Enterprise Deployments Gain Momentum
2012 is unlikely to be a year of great economic growth, but more companies are expected to deploy RFID as architecture that delivers benefits across an enterprise.