The South Korean airline plans to tag and track passengers’ baggage, from preflight check-in to postflight pickup.
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Avery’s 7.9-cent Inlay Excites Industry
Avery Dennison’s announcement of Gen2 inlays for 7.9 cents has excited the industry. Everyone that RFID Update has spoken with considers the offering to be a very significant and positive development for RFID.
Summary of Baird RFID Monthly for September
Baird has released its September report. The twenty-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.
New System for Printing Tags
Dimatix has introduced a printer to enable prototyping of printable circuitry for applications such as RFID tags.
Avery Dennison Announces 7.9-cent Gen2 Inlay
Avery Dennison yesterday announced that its Gen2 inlay, the AD-220, is available for 7.9 cents in quantities of one million or more.
Generic Drugmaker to Pilot RFID
Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals is reportedly in the early stages of deploying an item-level tracking system to improve its internal and supply chain operations.
BMW Rolls Out RFID Worldwide
With four German auto factories already equipped with a real-time location system, the company plans to use RFID to track finished cars at its U.K. and South African plants.
EPCglobal and the RFID Tipping Point
“The tipping point” was often repeated at this year’s EPCglobal conference. While growth in conference attendance from 2004, at about 1,400, was flat, and a number of speakers from end-user companies acknowledged their continuing preoccupation with “just trying to make things work”, the overall consensus seemed to be that RFID was here to stay.
DOD Finalizes RFID Mandate Language
The Department of Defense has finalized the contract clause mandating select suppliers to tag certain shipments headed for two DOD supply depots.
An RFID Application Developer’s Wish List
In order to take the technology to the next level, application developers need access to low-cost simulated RFID platforms.
The Mood of the EPCglobal Community
There’s a sense that things are not moving as quickly as people expected, but progress continues to be made.
Startup Offers Outsourced Tag Production
A new RFID startup was announced earlier this month. Called Confidex, the company is located in Nokia, Finland, and will specialize in providing solutions for tag design, engineering, and production.