Moore Wallace announces production capacity for millions of Gen 2 smart labels; Thompson to get tagged with VeriChip; Paxar Canada and IDVelocity link up; OTI’s Saturn OK’d for Visa RFID; RFID kits from Barcoding Inc.; RFID industry groups join forces.
Modern Materials Handling has an article this week on what has thus far been learned from the Wal-Mart mandate, considered the catalyzing event for the RFID industry as it exists today, almost two years after its initial announcement.
Texas A&M University is deploying an RFID system to track rented uniforms for its Corps of Cadets.
A revision to EPCglobal’s tag data standard includes the Department of Defense’s legacy product code formats.
ABI Research today released as part of its RFID Research Service a warning that the RFID software market will experience a shakeout in the next six to nine months.
The logistics company says WhereNet’s real-time asset tracking system will help it service its largest client, Target.
Today’s RFID news had two stories which together succinctly highlight the debate about using the technology to tag people.
A panel of government officials explained how agencies are trying to build privacy safeguards into potential U.S.-issued RFID-enabled IDs.
The two systems integrators will provide services to the United States military under a blanket purchase agreement.
Several provisions in the state’s Identity Information Protection Act of 2005 are unenforceable and likely to be invalidated by the courts.
The German lock manufacturer launches electronic cylinders to retrofit doors with mechanical locks so they can work with passive RFID access control systems.
RFID could bring to supply chains a level of automation and control similar to what process control devices brought to manufacturing decades ago.