During the trial, participating consumers will download a contactless-payment application to their mobile phones, enabling them to use the phones just as they would NFC-enabled contactless payment cards.
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Fighting Fires With RFID and Wireless Sensors
A new product aims to provide more details about fire, speeding up efforts to control them.
Fiat Shows How RFID Could Help Recycle Car Parts
The Fiat-designed test system, part of the EC-funded PROMISE project, tracks components using an RFID-enabled computer built into a vehicle.
RFID Is the Alaska Gas Pipeline’s Strongest Link
A construction project this huge, and in such a hostile environment, faces some unique challenges, which RFID can help address.
Smart Dust Innovator Targets RFID
A key innovator of so-called smart dust has returned to the lab to extend the technology’s capabilities into the RFID realm. UC Berkeley professor Kristofer Pister believes potential enhancements in meshed sensor networks could fulfill RFID’s promise of asset visibility.
RFID Contains Solution to Chinese Shipping Problems
China International Marine Containers recently launched an RFID pilot to track containers from its factory to the storage yard.
RFID-Enabling the World’s Packaging Infrastructure
A visit to PackExpo shows that we still have a long way to go before RFID will be embedded in product packaging.
QinetiQ and Crown Develop Item Containers With Antenna-less RFID Tags
The companies say the tags harvest power from the container itself, making them resistant to interference from adjacent liquids and metals.
Lantech Offers RFID-Enabled Stretch-Wrapper
With Symbol’s RD5000 mobile reader mounted on the film-delivery system, companies can interrogate Gen 2 EPC tags while applying stretch-wrap to a pallet.
Dutch Horticultural Company Sends Flowers via RFID
FloraHolland expects to improve the flow of flowers from dock door to auction floor.
RFID News Roundup
ILS announces compliance starter kits; RF Technologies, Emergin partnering to simplify wireless alerts; aerospace market ready for takeoff, says ABI; Ingenico integrates reader into payment PIN pad; ACG announces new RFID reader for fare collection; Ekahau raises $16 million in 2006.
Bookstore Item-Level RFID Tagging Boosts Sales
CIO Insight provides an update on the item-level tagging deployment by the Dutch book retailer Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN). According to the article, the deployment is generating major benefit, so much so that BGN plans to expand it across 16 more stores before the end of next year.