The company’s solution, currently being deployed by Connecticut’s Stamford Hospital, uses real-time location system technology to display patient- and personnel-related data on a monitor installed within each patient’s room, based on a signal transmitted by a staff member’s ID badge.
New Near Field Communication RFID functionality in Microsoft’s next operating system provides the opportunity for hardware and software firms to innovate.
The theories presented in the book “Freakonomics” might explain what is preventing more CEOs from embracing RFID and other new technologies.
The Spanish glass manufacturer is using a system from JSV Infomatica y Comunicaciones to improve efficiency and reduce errors as pallets of product move though its warehouse and on to customers.
Austriamicrosystems, Nordic ID team up on new reader modules, readers; Retailers Advantage intros new RFID and EAS combo tag; Confidex opens office in Brazil; Swedish Transport Administration puts TagMaster RFID on rails, TagMaster unveils security enhancements; HID Global launches pilot of NFC smartphones carrying digital keys for access control, announces BlackBerry credentials; Puerto Rico converting to all-electronic, RFID-enabled toll collection.
A project carried out with funding from a Netherlands government advisory board demonstrated whether the firm’s RFID-enabled containers could provide greater security and visibility during air travel.
The recently piloted solution—designed by CSC Australia, and installed by Becker Mining Systems at BHP Billiton’s Dendrobium mine, in New South Wales—can also be used to improve productivity.
A system from Prazza Group enables players to use a handheld reader to locate balls on a golf course, thanks to a built-in active RFID tag.
Some people have questioned why RFID Journal considers certain technologies to be radio frequency identification.
The technology, developed by a U.S. Department of Homeland Security research group, consists of ZigBee-based sensors and “breadcrumb” routers that communicate with a base station operated by a firefighter’s commanding unit.
The retailer is testing a passive UHF solution from QuikQ enabling truck drivers to fuel up more efficiently, while also ensuring against fuel fraud.
RFID helps analyze psychiatric conference; U.K. companies launch national record-sharing service for underground assets; Metalcraft delivers upgraded RFID windshield tag; STMicroelectronics announces NFC wireless memory app for Android smartphones.