Manufacturer to Track Half a Million Gas Cylinders
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. is using passive RFID tags to automate its bottling and distribution process, and to prevent the illegal diversion of its products.
RFID News Roundup
GuardRFID and AppLocation intro RTLS for supply chains; Confidex unveils new EPC Gen 2 label; New York offers RFID-enabled driver’s licenses; big jump for RFID patent applications in Korea; ODIN tests passive RFID tags for asset tracking.
RFID Driver’s Licenses Gain Traction in the US
RFID-enabled driver’s licenses saw a major adoption milestone Tuesday as the state of New York began issuing the so-called enhanced driver’s licenses, or EDLs. The wireless identification documents are designed to be used in lieu of a passport at land and sea crossings with Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and Caribbean islands.
Navy, Marines Track Assets on Oahu
Military warehouses at Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay are using EPC Gen 2 RFID to track inbound and outbound supplies and equipment.
Zebra Unveils Wearable RFID Printer-Encoder
The mobile device encodes EPC Gen 2 tags and supports both thermal transfer and direct thermal printing technologies.
New tikitag Service to Use NFC to Connect Consumers
tikitag is a new venture that will promote connecting consumers to web-based information, and is using near field communications (NFC) RFID technology to do it. The Alcatel-Lucent venture will soon release development kits and launch its service to support consumer and enterprise applications for NFC cell phones and other devices.
University Students Create a Virtual RFID-enabled Hospital
The group has created the facility in Second Life, a 3-D online world. The goal is to provide a way for health-care organizations to test RFID implementations prior to physical deployment.
Walgreens Opens RFID-Enabled Distribution Center
The drugstore chain’s DC in Anderson, S.C., has tagged 170,000 totes used to supply merchandise to 700 stores throughout the Southeast, enabling the company to prevent errors and streamline its shipping processes.
Walgreens RFID Deployment Announced
Walgreens is using RFID at its most advanced distribution center to make sure orders sent to stores are complete and loaded in the right truck in the right sequence. The largest drug store chain in the US is currently outfitting a second DC with the system, which will go online next year.
RFID Tickets Sped Visitors Through Belgium’s F1 Grand Prix
The race organizer used tickets embedded with 13.56 MHz RFID tags and handheld readers to scan tickets as visitors entered the stadium, thereby reducing queues and curtailing fraud.