Hint: It isn’t the price of tags, as some recent reports suggest.
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IBM Launches Software for Sharing RFID Data
WebSphere RFID Information Center is designed to let users share RFID-derived data regarding the location and status of shipments in real time, and to facilitate the creation of electronic pedigrees.
IBM’s New RFID Software Supports EPCIS
Today IBM announced WebSphere RFID Information Center, a middleware product created to provide a building block for multiple-company RFID supply chain applications. It is built on specifications for the forthcoming EPCglobal EPC Information Services (EPCIS) standard.
RFID News Roundup
NCR offering out-of-box mandate compliance package; Symbol launches advanced services for new technologies; WJ Communications debuts Gen 2 reader module; Semtech purchases Muehlbauer RFID production line; RFID4U rolling out new training courses.
Aberdeen on Supply Chain Visibility with RFID
Research firm Aberdeen Group this week released the latest installment in a series of reports on RFID adoption. Entitled , the report is available free. In this guest contribution, report author Russ Klein summarizes the key findings and recommendations for action.
Discover Rolling Out RFID Payment Platform
The fourth-largest credit card organization in the United States says it will launch field tests of an RFID-based payment system by year’s end.
U.S. Military Unit Reports Passive Tags Viable for Containers
Although the test results were positive, no decision has been made about whether EPC Gen 2 RFID tags will supplement or supplant the active tags currently used to track cargo containers.
Two Ohio Water Parks Become RFID-Enabled
Guests at Fort Rapids Indoor Waterpark and Great Wolf Lodge can use RFID tags embedded in wristbands to do such things as pay for goods and services and unlock hotel rooms.
New RFID Tag Withstands Industrial Sterilization
A company called AdvantaPure that specializes in ultra-clean products for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, food, and cosmetic industries, has released the GammaTag, which it claims is the first and only RFID tag that can withstand sterilization by gamma radiation.
Starbucks Keeps Fresh With RFID
The coffee purveyor is tracking perishable foods en route to its stores, to ensure they arrive unspoiled.
Study Finds High Economic Gains from RFID Deployments
According to University of Texas researchers, RFID technologies have already added $40 billion in benefits to the retail and health-care sectors, despite relatively low adoption of item-level RFID tagging.
Newbury Networks Offers Alternative to Cisco Tracking Appliance
The company’s location appliance works with existing Wi-Fi access points and supports PanGo’s asset-locating software, as well its own.