Gen2 chip supplier Impinj has expanded its portfolio of offerings with the addition of two new chip products. The fabless semiconductor firm will now complement its flagship Monza chip with the Monza/ID and Monaco/64 chips that feature, respectively, factory-programmed production identification and user-programmable memory.
While sales for the MyKey 2300 RFID door lock are hot and getting hotter in Asia, so far the device has gotten a cool reception in the States.
ABI Research today announced that it has revised down its forecasts for the RFID software and services market in 2007 by 15%. This smaller figure does not indicate bearishness on the part of ABI. On the contrary, the firm believes four particular trends in RFID software and services are responsible, and that they represent positive signs of market maturation.
Heartlands Hospital’s ENT surgery unit uses an RFID system allowing it to perform more surgeries and reduce the potential for errors.
Cloning a passport’s inlay, according to the Smart Card Alliance, would be no different than stealing someone else’s passport and trying to present that as your own at a border entry point.
This is part one of a three-part series that examines middleware and other RFID integration options and the issues surrounding them. This first installment segments different types of specific software and hardware offerings that are commonly grouped together as “RFID middleware.”
Peter Franklin uses 13.56 MHz tags to take inventory of its stock, eliminating a process involving manual counting and bar-code scanning, and the associated human error.
This essential article defines three broadly-understood categories of RFID middleware and the vendors that participate in each category.
A rental facility in Nice, France, is testing how the technology might make renting a car faster and easier.
IBM today announced what it calls an end-to-end solution RFID track-and-trace solution for the pharmaceutical industry to help combat the growing problem of counterfeit drugs. The blended offering includes hardware, a middleware stack, use cases, and services.
Associate FDA commissioner Randall Lutter says the pharmaceutical industry needs to move quickly toward adopting RFID for verifying a drug’s chain of custody.
The company created its package of software and services to help firms across the pharma supply chain collect and share tag data.