Beginning with Perth Airport, Qantas’ frequent flyers will be provided with new RFID-enabled loyalty cards that will serve as a permanent boarding passes.
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RFID Helps Florida Shoe Retailer Keep Its Customers From Walking Away
Peltz Shoes has developed its own item-level RFID system to track the 30,000 pairs of shoes at each of its Tampa-area stores, improving inventory accuracy and reducing inventory-related labor costs.
Wal-Mart Takes a New Approach to RFID
Here are five reasons the retailer’s efforts will be more successful this time.
Wal-Mart Relaunches EPC RFID Effort, Starting With Men’s Jeans and Basics
The retailer has shifted its focus from tagging all pallets and cases to working with suppliers to tag items in categories where the company and its partners will see the biggest benefits.
Saudi School Tracks Assets Across Multiple Sites
Najran University is deploying active and passive RFID tags to track the locations of 23,000 assets at its many campuses, with a goal of reducing theft and increasing asset-management accuracy.
RFID Tracks Oil Co. Containers and Ships in Newfoundland
A. Harvey is tagging its containers, as well as some vessels and trucks, to increase the visibility of its operations providing equipment, tools and food to offshore oil rigs.
RFID News Roundup
William Frick & Co. announces three new rugged tags for oil and gas; French government funds five RFID projects; Czech tag maker intros UHF label for metal; MTI Wireless Edge announces new small UHF circular outdoor antenna; Cupertino, Calif., schools to try RFID to encourage walking, biking; TowerJazz licenses Kilopass’ one-time programmable nonvolatile memory IP.
Finnish Furniture Maker Adds Value Through RFID
Martela attaches EPC Gen 2 tags to the desks, chairs and other office furnishings it manufactures, to streamline its ability to take inventory for customers that request it, as well as to provide other services.
Las Vegas-area Nursing Facility Adopts RFID for Memory-Impaired Residents
At TLC Care Center, dementia patients wear wristbands with active tags that trigger alerts and lock doors if they approach an exit.
RFID Middleware: To Embed or Not to Embed
Although deploying RFID readers with embedded middleware may seem like an affordable simple-to-implement choice, server-based RFID middleware may be the better option.
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Momentum Is Growing for Item-Level Tagging, Survey Says
The Aberdeen Group finds that 57 percent of retailers using or planning to deploy RFID prefer to employ the technology at the item level, and that many are utilizing the technology to improve inventory accuracy, as well as for a range of other applications.