Australian NFC trial indicates consumers like paying with mobile phones; Rfidium, Ramtron partner on RFID antenna inlays; Utah Transit Authority expands contactless payment deployment; Telenor, bus company run NFC-enabled mobile phone pilot in Norway; STid intros new UHF reader for vehicle identification; Lion & Rose restaurant and Chumash Casino adopt Capton’s Beverage Tracker system.
Chip and inlay providers gained the most recognition in RFID Update’s research into industry brand leaders. Impinj, Avery Dennison and UPM Raflatac moved up the rankings more than any other firms, and inlay, tag and smart label providers made up nine of the 10 most-recognized RFID companies.
By mid-March, the Miami hospital will have deployed 12,000 tags to track a variety of medical equipment, with plans to add another 8,000 in a second phase of implementation.
The company is using RFID-tagged kanban cards to replenish parts for production lines that make diesel fuel injectors.
Nevada legislators are considering Senate Bill 125 (SB 125), which would make unauthorized collection of personal information by RFID a felony. Critics say wording of the bill would criminalize legitimate forms of testing and research.
A solution leveraging devices that act like RFID tags and communicate via satellite and cellular communications is helping ensure troops in Iraq receive their necessary supplies.
A new tag from Numerex and Savi Technology can intelligently determine whether to communicate via an active RFID network or satellite communications, thereby promising more thorough, end-to-end visibility in a global supply chain.
Tego has released passive UHF tags with up to 32 kilobytes of user memory. The startup says the tags can last 20 years and are compatible with EPCglobal Gen2 and ISO 18000-6C standards, so no propriety equipment is needed to read and encode them.
Mark Roberti will reveal new industry data and RFID marketing insights in a webinar explaining how to market RFID products and services during an economic downturn.
The renamed system has created applications allowing consumers and business people to quickly access information on their NFC-enabled phones.