The European truck company is installing a system from Zebra Enterprise Solutions to track where each of its vehicles is located, and to monitor how long it takes to go through such services as washing and repair.
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Bahrain Government Agency Tracks Files With RFID
The island nation’s Survey and Land Registration Bureau has reduced the amount of time its staff spent searching for files, while also improving workflows, with a system from TrackIT Solutions.
RFID Brings Relief to Solid Comfort
To ensure orders are complete and accurate, the hotel-furniture maker uses passive EPC UHF tags to track products from the point of assembly to the moment they are shipped, thereby bringing a fast ROI.
Savi Unveils Developer Tools Program, System on Chip, to Spur Growth
The company offers its developer tools to businesses seeking an RFID solution—complying with the ISO 18000-7 RFID standard for 433 MHz active tags—to enhance their own hardware or software product.
RFID News Roundup
Ubisense intros UWB tag module for third-party development; RFID tracks participants at “World’s Largest 5K Event”; Baptist Memorial Health Care installs RFID system to protect babies; RF Code extends trade-up program to include passive RFID tags, readers; Nivis announces new WirelessHART gateway solution.
Wi-Fi RFID Alerts Espirito Santo Saude’s Staff
Ekahau badges and call buttons enable employees at two Portuguese health-care facilities to quickly identify the location of an emergency.
Scandinavian Group Finds That Tracked Cod Sells Better
The Swedish eTrace project used EPC Gen 2 RFID tags and EPCIS software to document the fishes’ provenance—which served to reassure consumers and thus boost sales.
Armored-RFID Tag Loves to Get Hammered
A new steel-shrouded UHF EPC Gen 2 tag, developed by Technologies ROI, can be welded to metal pipes or tools for the oil and gas, construction or other heavy industrial sectors, and is built to sustain abuse.
Sidestepping Capital Costs
New solutions make RFID technology more manageable—and affordable—for apparel retailers.
Ubiquitous RFID and Privacy
As radio frequency identification proliferates, the potential for abusing the technology will rise—but democratic capitalist societies have mechanisms to respond to and limit abuses.
Like the Car Industry, RFID Has Matured
Recent improvements in the technology have been substantial.
U.S. Marines’ Blount Island Command Attaches Passive Tags to Containers
The facility responsible for maintaining equipment and supplies aboard “maritime prepositioning ships” is deploying long-range Omni-ID EPC Gen 2 tags to expedite the loading and unloading of cargo.