A pilot project in New Zealand generated strong evidence that ultrahigh frequency (UHF) RFID technology is better suited to livestock tagging in that country than low frequency (LF), which is the flavor of RFID deployed historically. The New Zealand RFID Pathfinder Group conducted the pilot in April and May with groups of deer, sheep, and cattle.
By year’s end, the Australian Communication and Media Authority says it will finish weighing the results of trials testing the effect of 4-watt UHF RFID devices on the nation’s GSM-based mobile phone systems.
Surveys find that U.K. retailers may lead the European Union in planning deployments of RFID-enabled payment technology, despite consumer fears regarding contactless payments.
Greater regulation might be required to protect the food supply, and if the government takes the initiative to encourage the use of RFID technology, it would ease the pain of compliance.
Companies should keep an open mind about RFID applications.
In the short term, companies could use a transponder ID written to every microchip to ensure the authenticity of an EPC tag.
While Google is great at finding written or recorded information, it can’t deliver when it comes to real-time, real-life events. RFID could change that.
Many businesspeople first heard about radio frequency identification back in 2003, when Wal-Mart announced that it would require its largest suppliers to start putting RFID tags on pallets and cases beginning in January 2005. Since then, the technology has been...
Midsize enterprises around the world and in many industries are beginning to adopt RFID technologies.
Navistar Defense is using an RFID-enabled real-time locating system to track the assembly process of the armored vehicles it produces, which are designed to protect troops from bombs.
Organizers of the Netherlands’ Four Day Marches are using RFID-enabled sensor pills to monitor the risk of heat sickness, with help from a firm that is developing an application for analyzing athletes’ temperature and location in real time.
A recent report spotlights the high cost of implementing drug pedigrees, but there is a way forward.