RFID analysts expect healthy market growth; PINC Solutions unveils cold chain tracking solution; Rush Tracking Systems adds optical positioning to RFID forklift; Ekahau, NavSync team up on Wi-Fi and GPS tracking solution; CenTrak intros thin hybrid active RFID/infrared tag for RTLS; Mojix unveils RTLS that leverages its passive RFID technology.
The UHF RFID industry today is much different than the one Mid South RFID abruptly entered six years ago by filling a rush order for 1.2 million baggage tags. This installment of our company profile series tracks the company’s evolution and future outlook.
To expedite maintenance, each step on every escalator is getting an EPC Gen 2 passive tag.
The company’s Belgian hydraulic-valve plant deployed a real-time locating system to ensure that workers use the correct wrench and torque to install hoses.
EPCglobal US, the not-for-profit organization that is the US administrator for Electronic Product Code (EPC) and other RFID standards, now offers for-hire RFID implementation consulting services. The organization also lowered its membership fees as part of an initiative to make EPC technologies easier to implement.
EPC Gen 2 tags are being deployed at millions of homes across the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, helping postal carriers to monitor service and verify that mail was correctly delivered.
At the first annual event, to be held on June 15-17 in Dubai, technology evangelist Sabri Hamed Al-Azazi will present the inaugural keynote, discussing the importance of RFID.
The energy last week at RFID Journal LIVE! 2009 showed there is still a great deal of interest in all types of RFID technologies.
Last week the seventh annual RFID Journal LIVE! conference and exhibition was held in Orlando, Florida. RFID Update was there, and judging by its own research and the many opinions shared by exhibitors and attendees at the event, this year’s RFID Journal LIVE! was a fairly good show — no small feat in this economy.
RFID could be the food supply chain’s equivalent of the flight data recorder.
The company has announced a new reader chip, a new item-level tracking solution, a new distribution agreement and more.
Sacred Heart Medical Center is the third PeaceHealth hospital to install the Versus Technology system to track patient locations and treatments.