FTC to hold public forum on RFID-enabled payment devices; Fujitsu launches UHF garment tags for North American, European and Chinese markets; Weber Marking Systems’ new RFID label printer-applicator; GHX Mobile Solutions updates RFID-enabled inventory tool; RFID verifies collectibles for Texas Sports Hall of Fame; Motorola, Y3 Technologies to develop RFID solutions for YCH Group.
TechInsights, the integrated media company that hosts the annual RFID World, announced that it has hired Timothy Downs as an adviser for this year’s event in September. Downs was founder of the show, and his participation could represent an injection of the vision that originally made RFID World one the industry’s leading events.
The hospital has upgraded its 10-year-old system for tracking young patients, and also plans to begin tagging assets.
New ISO guidelines explore the environmental impact of RFID tags, and how to employ them to facilitate product recycling; an EPA-funded project is studying the use of RFID to aid in the recycling of consumer electronics.
The US Army is testing RFID tags integrated with sensors mounted on the heavy gun barrels of tanks to record each time the weapon is fired. The data will be used for maintenance planning and to determine when each weapon should be retired.
The company has partnered with Mobile Aspects to provide an RFID system for tracking bottles of intravenous solution used for MRI and CAT scans.
The system, which uses high-performance EPC Gen 2 RFID tags from Omni-ID, has already been deployed at five data centers.
NeoCatena Networks is a startup that plans to soon release RF-Wall, a firewall for networked RFID systems that promises to block malware from entering enterprise systems through RFID readers and to detect tags that have been cloned or tampered with.
Honest coverage of RFID and other new technologies is important—but, unfortunately, all too rare.
Wilson Sporting Goods produces RFID compliance shipping labels by using printer/encoders that support direct connectivity to its SAP and IBM AS/400 enterprise systems. The system architecture helped the company simplify implementation during a time of IT transition.
As some European companies shift from trials to deployment, they’re developing a corporate plan for RFID adoption.
Construction equipment suppliers use N4 Systems’ RFID-based solution to track inspection records of equipment in the field, at work sites and mines.