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Toward a Cheap Sensor Tag
The transformation of a technology negative into a positive could make it affordable to monitor the condition of many products and things.
Design for Change
A data-centric approach to your RFID system protects your investment for the long term.
RFID Puts Salt Lake City Drivers in the Fast Lane
Utah’s Department of Transportation is using the United States’ first passive EPC Gen 2 UHF RFID toll-collection system to ease traffic congestion and collect fees from drivers in the HOV lane.
RFID News Roundup
Clarian Health chooses Ekahau RTLS, starting with 10,000 tags; Gov. Schwarzenegger signs Toll Tag Privacy Bill; Taiwan Bike Association opts for timing solution using Raflatac EPC Gen 2 Tags; RF Code announces active reader with Wi-Fi connectivity, PoE; Evolis enhances card printers with UHF Gen 2 encoding capabilities; Southern Atlantic Healthcare Alliance chooses RadarFind RTLS.
OHSU Hospitals Expand RFID Deployment
Oregon Health & Science Healthcare continues to find additional uses for its AeroScout Wi-Fi system, five years after it was first installed.
High Demand Keeps Tag Prices Steady
An ODIN report finds that the price of UHF passive RFID tags has remained static due to a high growth in demand—and that’s good news, according to the study’s authors.
RF Code, Raritan Launch System for Monitoring Server Power Consumption
The solution combines Raritan’s power distribution units (PDUs) and RF Code’s RFID sensor tags and readers, reducing the need for an Ethernet cable to forward energy-usage and environmental data to a company’s back-end system.
Chip-size EPC Gen 2 Tag Promises to Enable New Applications
FEC International is marketing a tag made with NXP Semiconductors’ Ucode G2XM chip and an antenna that fits directly onto the IC’s surface, resulting in a tag approximately the size of a grain of sand.
RFID Could Play a Key Role in Telemedicine
New sensors show how the technology could help doctors monitor at-home patients remotely, thereby reducing costs and improving care.
Psychiatric Ward Uses RFID-based Alarms to Bolster Personnel Security
The system, developed by researchers at Finland’s Tampere University of Technology, includes active tags with an alarm button and routers that form a wireless sensor network.
RFID News Roundup
Zebra intros next-gen RTLS leveraging ultra-wideband RFID technology; Axcess International 433 MHz active tags incorporate HID iCLASS 13.56 MHz RFID technology; ABI Research forecasts RFID market in 2011 greater than $6 billion; RFID solutions provider Galbital announces UHF-based Smart Logistics System; TagMaster unveils new 2.45 GHz handheld RFID reader, announces Confidex partnership on UHF; Bethesda Hospitals’ Emergency Preparedness Partnership selects Versus RTLS; TI launches portfolio of microcontroller development kits for RFID, ZigBee.