The German retailer is using Avery Dennison’s AD-843 tag to track pallets loaded with food products, providing nearly 100 percent read rate.
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RFID Weekly News Roundup — July 16, 2009
RFID at Wal-Mart, wine sales, a major RTLS implementation, $20 million in venture funding for one RFID company and €65 million in credit for another are among the highlights from this week’s industry news roundup.
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ThingMagic unveils components for Mercury5e reader module; Arygon introduces multi-protocol HF RFID reader; Kovio lands additional funding to print silicon tags; RFID keeps time with Seattle marathon runners; RFID hardware market slows, but will pick up within two years; AEM Technologies merges with CardFactory.
Singapore’s Nissan Distributor Expects 90 Percent Gain
The four-story, 900-car operation expects active RFID tags will enable it to speed up allocation of parking spaces and locate cars more quickly, allowing it to process vehicles in one-tenth the time.
U.K. Startup Sees Pregnant Opportunity
A company named Cambridge Temperature Concepts has developed an RFID-based system to help women predict their ovulation cycles.
RFID Market Performing Unevenly During Recession
The latest market data from VDC Research finds the recession is dragging down the RFID market, with vendors and end users differing on when the industry recovery will begin. The commercial services vertical is a bright spot for RFID sales, which are expected to top $4 billion worldwide this year.
PLS Uses RFID to Track Pallets, Containers
Packaging Logistics Services is offering RFID-enabled services to its reusable packaging customers, as well as utilizing the technology to manage the pallets and containers it leases out.
King Fahd University Explores RFID’s Potential
The Saudi Arabian school is working on a number of projects, such as using RFID to dispense medication, monitor a person’s pulse rate and blood pressure, and manage energy consumption.
Industry Must Promote RFID’s Role in Food Safety
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to issue guidelines within three months regarding how to create a system to trace tainted food, and RFID needs to be part of the plan.
RFID Lets People Talk to the Touchwall
Schematic believes its giant RFID-enabled touch screen can be a useful tool for providing information to attendees at events, and to consumers in retail stores.
EPCIS Implementers Need to Clean Up Their Data
One hundred percent of first-time exchanges of EPCIS events between companies contained errors. If not corrected, such mistakes could jeopardize the promise of tracking and tracing.
RFID Secures Command Center at Boston Pops Concerts
For a Fourth of July event held at the city’s Esplanade, EPC Gen 2 tags and portals tracked who entered the room where federal, state and local officials worked to ensure public safety.