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At RFID Journal LIVE! 2010, senior executives from Airbus, Conair, the Southeast Alabama Medical Center, the U.S. Department of Defense and other early RFID adopters will highlight the technology’s ability to deliver total business visibility.
The RFID systems integrator and solutions provider will continue to operate independently, but will receive an infusion of cash from Pharos Capital Group.
Embedding a transponder in products—particularly consumer electronics—delivers more value with no business process change, and the incremental cost is almost insignificant.
The Automotive Industry Action Group’s B-11 Revision 8 Item-Level RFID standard, just released, provides a means for achieving RFID’s full capability.
The Brazilian pilot, conducted by a large financial company, employs EPC Gen 2 RFID tags in stickers that attach to cell phones.
Senate Bill 211 would have prohibited the technology’s use to track the locations of students in the state’s schools, while also limiting the way in which information from vehicle RFID programs, such as toll collection, is used.
RFID Race Timing Systems chooses PowerID’s BAP label; Inside Contactless, Twinlinx team on Bluetooth-enabled NFC stickers; Smartrac wins contactless ticketing projects, acquires contactless card technology; three tag makers, including UPM Raflatac, selected by IATA for airline baggage tagging; U.S. State Department uses RFID to track, secure IT assets; RF Controls’ new algorithms enable single-antenna location tracking; Hub télécom works with Tibco on RFID platform for Paris airport; Arch Rock upgrades wireless monitoring system for data centers.
The MC3100 series comes with a built-in EPC Gen 2 passive UHF tag, enabling users to keep tabs on the devices, as well as prevent their unauthorized removal from a company’s premises.
Scientists are studying the migratory patterns of European eels in the North Atlantic, using transponders that detach from the fish in order to transmit a record of their journey.
RFID can take the “work” out of paperwork.
Achieving total business visibility will require a suite of technologies, but RFID will do the lion’s share of the work.