Mojix is a startup led by former NASA deep space scientists who used their digital signal processing expertise to develop passive RFID technology with 600-foot read range. Mojix says its STAR system can identify individual Gen2 tags within a 250,000 square foot area.
A report issued by international trade association Global Commerce Initiative recommends suppliers and retailers initially focus instead on using RFID for products shipped to distribution centers.
The startup draws on RF expertise from deep-space signal processing to create a system that it says will offer improved performance, new capabilities and lower deployment costs.
Airbus has selected IBM and OATSystems to deliver a software platform upon which the aircraft manufacturer’s ambitious RFID deployment will run. While financial specifics were not disclosed in the announcement, the companies did characterize it as “the manufacturing industry’s single largest RFID software transaction to date.”
The company is supplying pretagged cardboard boxes to several of its customers, and plans to license its process for manufacturing RFID-tagged cardboard to International Paper and other firms.
Some RFID industry observers think RFID regulations recently enacted in the state of Washington will lead to a bevy of similar laws around the country. At least 28 states are believed to have pending RFID legislation, and there are federal-level efforts underway around the world.
Now that California has extended its electronic-pedigree deadline to 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could become the first governing body to issue e-pedigree requirements for protecting the pharma supply chain—assuming it meets its goal.
GlobeRanger announces RFID appliance; Axcess International unveils RFID-enabled stickers with temperature sensors; Rush Tracking Systems intros RFID system for lift trucks; Australian prison to implement RFID-enabled inmate tracking; AWID, Intelleflex strike new licensing deals with Intermec.
ABI Research has publicly announced what it deems the top three manufacturers of both UHF and HF RFID inlays. The rankings are in the form of ABI’s new “Vendor Matrices” for each of the two categories. A Vendor Matrix indicates where vendors are positioned in the market based on selected criteria. This article lists the winners.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and P3 say businesses don’t appreciate how RFID can help improve the efficiency of numerous business processes.