Avery Dennison intros new line of NFC inlays; German hospital deploys Wi-Fi badges for staff safety and tags for asset tracking; Kovio raises $15 million with lead investor Tyco Retail Solutions; RF Monolithics adds new wireless sensor products to portfolio; ILP becomes exclusive distributor of Surfaceslab smart surfaces in North America; adoption of NFC RFID continues to grow at hotels.
The Kaweah Delta Medical Center has adopted a solution from Draeger to capture health data regarding its patients, via a Wi-Fi-based telemetry tag worn around a person’s neck.
In a dispute involving fair-labor laws, an RFID system involving EPC Gen 2 tags and readers was temporarily set up within a factory to document how long workers remained on-site.
RFID Sensor Systems has developed battery-free UHF sensor tags that enable users to measure a patient’s heart and breathing rates, or the temperature of a product or shipping container.
The department that manages health care for U.S. veterans is doing a good job of planning a nationwide rollout to more than 150 medical centers.
The University of Arkansas has launched a comprehensive four-day program focused on the business value of RFID technology for retailers and their suppliers.
The company’s RFID Overhead EAS Solution includes a reader that mounts on a ceiling above an exit, as well as software to send alerts and link read data to a store’s back-end inventory records.
Libelium has released a smart parking solution enabling cities to use Waspmotes to detect the presence of cars in parking spaces, and to transmit that status to a server that both commuters and the city can access.
Australia’s Dandenong Hospital selects Wi-Fi RTLS from Ekahau for emergency department; STL Technologies partners with Impinj on RTLS for criminal-justice sector; RFID Consortium announces new member, extension of royalty discounts; Identive Group Announces NFC product, production capacity increase; Cleveland VA chooses ClearCount’s SmartSponge System to enhance safety in OR.
Wholesaler Max Pharma is utilizing an RFID system to track medicines internally, and wants to encourage more suppliers and pharmacies to take advantage of the technology as well.
Senceive’s Wi-Fi sensors enable the castle’s caretaker, Historic Royal Palaces, to monitor the conditions around the medieval walls, as well as a fragile painting mounted on one wall, to ensure historic preservation.
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