The facilities will outfit oil tanks and cooling fans with sensor-enabled active RFID tags that can create a wireless mesh network to communicate data and initiate appropriate actions.
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RFID-Enabled Billboards Talk to Mini Motorists
Mini USA is distributing RFID key fobs to Cooper owners in four U.S. cities, where interactive billboards will read the tags and flash personalized messages to drivers.
An Award for Leadership in RFID
Why you should enter our award competition before the deadline on Wednesday.
Audi Uses Semi-Passive Tags to Make TTs
At its plant in Ingolstadt, the German carmaker is employing RFID to help manage robots positioned at about 80 manufacturing and assembly stations.
There’s No Packaged Answer for RFID
Adding an RFID tag to a product’s packaging requires careful designing, but there are things you can do to help ensure a favorable outcome.
VDC on RFID Adoption in 2006
Market research firm Venture Development Corporation of Natick, Massachusetts, recently released a number of findings on the RFID market in 2006. This article highlights the key points.
South African Railroad Switches to Passive RFID
Spoornet, the region’s largest rail operator, will equip its fleet of 80,000 freight railcars with UHF tags from TransCore.
RFID News Roundup
Metalcraft offers three tag form factors; 3M Library Systems rolls out RFID workstation improvements; Inside Contactless announces new payment card inlay; Syscan sells RFID readers to Australian livestock market; IGPS adopts auto-replenish service for pallets.
Threat to RFID in Manufacturing May Come from Within
ARC Advisory Group’s Chantal Polsonetti discusses how RFID and other automatic identification technologies will increasingly compete with one another for the same applications, forcing vendors to demonstrate value not only over competitors offering the same technology, but also over alternative technologies that are appropriate for the application.
RFID Lands a Role on Broadway
Visa USA has helped the Nederlander Organization’s New York City theaters accept RFID-enabled payment cards.
Accelitec Partners With Fujitsu on RFID Payments
With one successful deployment under its belt, Accelitec is working with Fujitsu Transaction Solutions to develop a customer base for its PayPilot RFID platform.
Manufacturing Insights on RFID Adoption
Kim Knickle, analyst with research firm Manufacturing Insights, takes a high-level look at RFID adoption in industries across the board and asserts that industry-specific expertise is a key competitive advantage RFID vendors should offer to win business.