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United Airlines Tests RFID to Speed Baggage and Passenger Check-In
Working with Star Alliance, United is providing plastic RFID-enabled baggage tags to 1,000 of the company’s most frequent flyers departing from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
ODIN Technologies to Present ‘RFID Fundamentals for Managers’ Seminar at LIVE! 2009
The RFID systems integrator will offer education for senior-level executives seeking to understand how radio frequency identification can help them reduce costs and improve operational efficiencies.
RFID News Roundup
Mobile Aspects offers customers new financing options; SkyRFID debuts UHF/HF windshield tag; Panasonic offers RFID-enabled mobile computer for health care; EBV Elektronik forms RFID sales team; Virtus Asia to showcase wireless sensors at Hong Kong RFID Center; Elektrobit sells its RFID business.
Latest Anti-RFID Video is Actually Worth Watching
A video has been making the rounds on the web in which a hacker equips his car with off-the-shelf RFID gear then drives around downtown San Francisco scanning electronic passport IDs from the air. Unlike much of the anti-RFID propaganda that has been published to date, this video is actually effective in raising questions about secure adoption of the technology.
RFID-Dedicated Distributor Makes Its Entrance
Canadian logistics services provider Liaison Can/U.S. Courier has created a new division that will distribute RFID hardware, software and services in North America.
RFID Journal Joins With EPCglobal US to Produce New EPC Standards and Benefits Track at LIVE! 2009
During RFID Journal’s seventh annual conference and exhibition, a series of sessions will explain how Electronic Product Code standards are delivering value to companies across many industries.
Hawaii Expands Produce Supply Chain RFID Pilot
The Hawaii Department of Agriculture is adding temperature-sensing active RFID tags and ocean shipments from the mainland US to its ongoing food traceability pilot project. The initiative continues to track produce shipments within the state with passive RFID.
Chip-size Passive RFID Tag Promises Long Range
Tagent’s ultra-wideband (UWB) RFID system will be piloted in a medical laboratory, where it will track the locations of blood specimens in real time.
Krause Outlet Takes Window-Shopping to the Ultimate Level
The German retailer uses RFID to display information about each garment presented in its store windows, enabling a consumer to buy that exact item on the spot, via a vending machine.