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Partnership Combines Wireless Sensors and Live Detectives
The security solution enables customers to track shipments using cellular-based sensor technology and a manned response team, and via RFID for high-value items.
RFID News Roundup
Korean steel maker tracks operations with RFID, saving $1.4 million monthly; Xerafy announces new series of passive UHF RFID on-metal tags; Smart Track Logistics launches Integrated Asset Tracker; Identec Group says growth strategy a success; Ruro intros RFID program for life-sciences industry; Taiwan External Trade Development readies 37th Taipei International Electronics Show.
Wall of Beer Lets Patrons Draw Their Drinks
An RFID-enabled system allows the Cheeky restaurant to provide a pour-your-own-beer service, while monitoring and controlling the amount that customers consume.
Oncology Clinic Gains Efficiency, Safety With RFID
The UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center is using EPC Gen 2 tags to track the amount of time that each patient awaits radiation treatment, and to verify that the correct equipment is being employed.
DB Schenker Uses Temperature-logging Tags to Monitor Drug Shipments
The German logistics services provider is using radio frequency identification to track the conditions under which sensitive pharmaceuticals and reagents are transported to the United States.
NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Adopts RFID
The Met’s Cloisters branch is using a wireless sensor system from IBM Research to manage data regarding temperature, humidity and other environmental conditions around artwork.
Gerry Weber Shows How Retailers Benefit From RFID
The winner of this year’s RFID Journal Award for Best RFID Implementation is using the technology across its value chain.
The Wisdom of the Earth
China’s leader really gets RFID.
New York City Marathon Offers Enhanced RFID-enabled Apps
Spectators and runners will be able to view participants’ precise locations at all times, thanks to applications that combine data from RFID readers deployed along the racecourse with information from the GPS functionality of the runners’ smartphones.
Active RFID Brings Light to Equipment Search
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Advanced Light Source division is employing RF Code RFID hardware and AssetPulse software to track equipment used on light-generating accelerators.
Thai Consumer Goods Manufacturer Tidies Up Warehousing Processes
Lion, one of Thailand’s largest manufacturers of cleaning products, is using EPC Gen 2 RFID tags and readers to improve its processes for storing and retrieving pallets carrying its products.