The health-care provider is employing a hybrid infrared-RFID system to track patients’ locations and status, and to streamline the process of assigning each a bed.
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Tergooi Hospital Uses RFID to Boost Efficiency
The Dutch health-care provider is employing Wi-Fi-based active tags to track the locations of infusion pumps, and eventually EKG machines, in its surgery recovery and orthopedics wards.
Cashless in Europe
Will London’s consumers and businesses embrace RFID payment systems? European contactless providers want to know.
Can Pharma Move in Lockstep?
Adopting RFID all at once could lower the cost of deployment, deliver business benefits and offset a government mandate to track drugs.
Don’t Tag a Book on Its Cover
BindTech, a Nashville, Tenn., bindery, received a patent for a process that can embed an RFID tag in a book cover as it is being manufactured.
Disagreement Awaits Imminent HF Gen2 RFID Standard
A key member of the EPCglobal committee that is developing the 13.56 MHz Gen2 HF standard has serious doubts as to whether the standard will represent a significant improvement over what is already available in the market, and if it can meet pharmaceutical industry needs for high-speed item-level identification.
Product Update: RFID File Tracking
Has RFID file tracking fallen by the wayside—or are companies and organizations adopting the application and reaping its benefits?
RFID Security With a Smile
To outsmart hackers, smart security systems are combining RFID with video and biometric technology.
U.K. Seal Maker Puts RFID to the Test
AESSEAL assessed EPC Gen 2 tags and interrogators at GS1 UK’s new RFID test center, with plans to deploy the technology to speed up the time needed to receive and locate products.
RFID Could Spell Relief for U.N.
Adopting RFID all at once could lower the cost of deployment, deliver business benefits and offset a government mandate to track drugs.
RFID’s Greener Side
Tracking tagged goods—and recycling their packaging—will reduce our energy needs.
RFID for Wine Aficionados
A California startup has developed WineM, an RFID-enabled wine rack that lets aficionados and sommeliers manage their collection visually.