What are some successful examples of radio frequency identification being employed in a temperature-controlled supply chain? —Ashish ——— Dear Ashish: Radio frequency identification technology can be utilized to automatically capture temperature data and transmit that...
What is the best company that can provide us with an RFID-enabled inventory-management solution for car parts? We have talked with many integrators, but do not feel they are competent enough to do the job. —Jignesh, India ——— Jignesh, Managing car parts can be a...
The Global RF Lab Alliance has appointed Dieter Uckelmann, manager of the University of Bremen’s LogDynamics Lab, as its new president, and has also issued a call for papers for an academic publication.
Can you please discuss the breakdown of funding that the retailer invested in order to deploy radio frequency identification within its supply chain? —Name withheld ——— That's a question to which only a few people within Wal-Mart know the answer—and they're not going...
Is there an agreed-upon standard, based on the BRIDGE project, for writing such information to radio frequency identification tags? —Name withheld ——— To answer this question, I reached out to Henri Barthel, EPCglobal's technical director, who was the coordinator of...
I want to attach an RFID tag to robes and slippers that are used at my store and are, at times, taken off site, never to be seen again. I need an inexpensive system that notifies my when an item passes through the front door. The tag has to be very small, able to fit...
How might I go about achieving the integration of cell-phone technology with radio frequency identification? —Name withheld ——— Hmmm. If your question is a technical one about how to add Near-Field Communications (NFC) technology to a phone, then the best folks to...
Does anyone make an MRI-compatible active tag for patient tracking, and how are tags affected by other imaging energy (for example, X-rays and ultrasound)? —Name withheld ——— I am unaware of any companies that manufacture tags compatible with magnetic resonance...
I work in a big library. What is the benefit of having a printed bar code on a label, if we have an RFID tag under that label? Are there any printers made especially for encoding a tag only, not printing the bar code (in other words, having an empty label)? I want to...
I am looking for a vendor who can supply a Wi-Fi-based RFID system to track personnel on board an Indian naval ship. We need 170 active RFID interrogators and 500 tags. The tags have to be intrinsically safe. The system will be interfaced and monitored by a...
We seek a solution for container yard management in real time. We need to be able to determine the exact location of a container in the yard, which covers 65,000 square meters [700,000 square feet]. We move around 250 to 300 containers per day, and capacity is for...
Do you have any information available on the history of radio frequency identification? —Name withheld ——— Yes, we have an article in our Get Started section entitled The History of RFID Technology, though I would not call it an authoritative history. It is simply...