IDTechEx said the RFID market is on pace to reach its previously-predicted level of $5.3 billion in sales in 2008, the firm recently announced. Large transportation ticketing projects, continued growth in ID card programs, and a surge of activity in the apparel industry are the main growth drivers.
The NASA Johnson Space Center and the National Science Foundation are testing an inflatable habitat that uses RFID tags combined with sensors to transmit temperature and air-pressure data to the United States.
New Israeli hospital to install Wavetrend active RFID technology; Istanbul mass transit buys more than 1 million RFID tickets; SkyeTek offers RFID solutions for medical inventory management; RadarFind offers temperature-sensing tags; Innovision launches higher-memory NFC RFID chips; Toshiba TEC unveils new RFID modules for printers.
By deploying EPC RFID tags, Assistor finds that it can move more vehicles and reduce mix-ups.
KWV is employing EPC Gen 2 passive tags to track the barrels it uses for aging its products.
Goliath Solutions, the provider of RFID-based promotion-tracking solutions, will soon offer an RTLS solution based on the technology it has developed as part of its core offering. The company believes it can offer the solution at a very competitive price point, and address what has been an underserved segment of the RTLS market.
Using passive high-frequency tags, the company’s contrast media delivery system for CT scans will alert radiology technicians if they inadvertently try to administer an expired or previously used syringe.
The company says the interrogator is the first on the market to include support for the data-protecting protocol, developed in Japan and expected to be available on tags made with Hitachi’s µ-chip Hibiki.
METRO Group installed an RFID system at its new Future Store to track individual packages of meat to ensure no spoiled products leave the store. RFID data also provides a real-time view of demand that’s used to direct meat cutting and packaging operations.
Hewlett-Packard announced it will install RFID reader systems at customer sites to track HP servers and other IT gear that ship with pre-installed Gen2 tags. HP previously provided these services on a project basis, but has now formalized them under the HP Factory Express Service banner.
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The company will affix EPC Gen 2 RFID tags to the blade servers and other IT assets its customers order, enabling them to begin tracking the items’ locations as soon as they receive them.