Semiconductor and RFID hardware manufacturer Impinj announced yesterday that it had raised $19 million in a private funding round, bringing total venture and strategic investment in the seven-year-old company to $98 million. The company will use the funds to pursue opportunities in item-level tagging.
Testing of the technology at the Super Bowl showed promise for tracking video equipment.
Radiation measurements, combined with real-time location information, enable managers to track workers and assess safety based on radiation exposure.
The data media company says its DataGuard rf system will make data tapes easier to track, both within storage facilities and as they travel between sites.
RFID reader companies Alien, CAEN, and ThingMagic made a point yesterday to announce their planned integration of Intel’s new Gen2 reader chip into their reader products. That chip, the R1000, was itself announced yesterday by Intel, and is expected to herald the introduction of cheaper and smaller Gen2 RFID reader technology.
Two stores are using the tables, which have built-in UHF EPC RFID interrogators, to display marked-down products and track their movements.
If they pass into law, the proposed legislation could result in RFID-tagging requirements for drugs sold via the Internet and for all tobacco products.
The software has already helped the hospital uncover inefficient processes and better understand its staffing, patient and room needs.
Intel has shrunk many of an interrogator’s critical components onto a single chip, which manufacturers can use to make more compact, power-efficient readers. Other chipmakers are also making reader chips.
Intel today announced the release of a fully integrated Gen2 RFID reader chip, the R1000. The new chip, which is slated for volume production within weeks, may represent a major technological milestone for RFID as it preciptates a dramatic reduction in the cost and form factor of reader technology.
The prototype is designed to show how RFID could provide a way for customers, contractors and DHL to track both the movement of vans and the location of packages.
University Hospital of Ghent is implementing a system that detects when a patient is having cardiac distress and sends caregivers an alert indicating the patient’s location.