Using an RFID system set to launch in January, the nation’s postal service will automatically monitor tagged test envelopes as they pass through key sorting points.
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RFID Journal Unveils Conference Program
The world’s leading RFID media company has published its preliminary agenda for the RFID Journal LIVE! 2006 Conference and Exhibition.
Frost: RFID Pharma-Healthcare to Top $2B in 2011
Frost & Sullivan today released a report on RFID’s application in the pharmaceutical and healthcare verticals, predicting the market will top $2 billion by 2011. This article has more details.
Bike Rental Program Peddles Smart Cards
In France, people use RFID-enabled prepaid cards to rent bicycles from 175 locations across Lyon and its suburbs.
Boeing Reveals More About Its Tag Plans
The company outlines the types of data that will be encoded to specialized UHF tags for Dreamliner airplane parts, and moves closer to establishing a timeline for the tags’ creation.
TI Buys Impinj Gen 2 Chips for Inlays
Texas Instruments is the latest tag manufacturer using the Impinj Monza chip for Gen 2 inlays and chip-and-strap assemblies.
Summary of Baird RFID Monthly for November
Baird has released its November report. The eighteen-page document is a worthwhile read for anyone requiring an overview of the industry’s last 30 days. For those without time to do so, we have reprinted here the report’s summary.
Loggers Use Tags to Track Trucks, Timber
Papermakers and sawmills deploy RFID systems in forests to facilitate the loading, weighing and unloading of logging trucks.
UN Publishes “Internet of Things” Report
The International Telecommunication Union, a body of the United Nations that coordinates global telecom networks and services, released a report entitled at the World Summit on the Information Society held the week before last in Tunis. This article highlights the report’s contents.
Omron’s New Mantra
The Japanese electronics vendor is focusing on making UHF systems for the supply chain, starting with the creation of the RFID Business Development Group in the United States.
Branding Alaskan Goods With RFID
The University of Alaska Anchorage is exploring how radio frequency identification can reduce the counterfeiting of Alaskan products and make them more competitive.
RFID Tracks Tires at NASCAR
Goodyear used handheld interrogators and embedded tags to keep track of leased racecar tires.