The 442-bed Virginia facility will utilize the system to track the locations of hundreds of cardiac telemetry units and other assets, as well as to monitor refrigerator temperatures.
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Boutique Winery Believes RFID Offers a Barrelful of Benefits
The CEO of a manufacturer of active RFID hardware deploys his company’s new wireless sensor system to monitor temperature and humidity at a winery he owns and operates.
9 Things RFID Will Be Remembered for in ’08, Part 1
This article is Part 1 of a three-part series that recaps the top RFID developments from 2008. This installment focuses on advances in UWB, passive UHF and NFC technologies. Tomorrow’s Part 2 will examine startups, funding, and M&A in the RFID vendor landscape, and Part 3 will identify new trends and provide an outlook for 2009.
American Apparel Expands RFID to Additional Stores
A little more than a year after its ambitious foray into item-level RFID tagging at its stores, the clothing company is enjoying positive results.
For Improving Elderly Care, RFID is on the Button
Five facilities in Nottingham, England, are sewing RFID-enabled buttons to clothing of dementia patients as a discreet way of making sure garments don’t get mixed up.
Raflatac Positions Itself for NFC Adoption
UPM Raflatac recently announced the launch of a portfolio of RFID tags for use in near field communication (NFC) applications. The tags have already been deployed in some applications, but official availability begins this month. RFID Update spoke with Raflatac’s business development director Mikko Nikkanen about the new chips and his company’s view of NFC adoption.
RFID News Roundup
Uruguay deploys RFID-enabled toll system; Pixavi launches Wi-Fi RFID tag for hazardous areas; Giesecke & Devrient delivers microSD card uniting smart card and NFC functions; RFID tags streamline ferry traffic in Finland; Soligie and Blue Spark collaborate on printed electronics; RFID benefits extend beyond the supply chain, Aberdeen study reports.
RFID Aids Restoration of Australian Rainforest
A group of scientific organizations are deploying a network of up to 200 RFID-enabled sensor nodes that measure such things as temperature, humidity, soil moisture and wind speed, as well as identify animal species.
SecureRF to Develop Secure RFID for US Air Force
The US Air Force wants active RFID tags it can use with sensors to monitor the location and status of assets but which can’t be read by enemies. SecureRF received a grant to help develop the RFID system, which will also securely encode all data transmission.
Yacht Owners Take Comfort in TenderTag
If an auxiliary watercraft becomes separated from its parent ship, the RFID system sends out an alarm.
U.N.’s Universal Postal Union Gears Up for Large RFID Pilot
A test involving the postal systems in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates demonstrated RFID’s suitability for measuring the performance of mail delivery services.
RiteCare Says RFID Helps Cure Its Warehouse Woes
The drug retailer slashed inventory and errors, thanks to an EPC Gen 2 UHF solution provided by S3Edge that uses Microsoft’s newly release BizTalk RFID Mobile middleware.