Be Recognized for Excellence in RFID
The third-annual RFID Journal Awards will spotlight the best uses of radio frequency identification, as well as the best new product of the past 12 months.
Sam’s Club Tells Suppliers to Tag or Pay
The Wal-Mart division has required its suppliers to apply RFID tags to pallets by Jan. 31, or it will charge a service fee to cover its cost of tagging the pallets itself.
RFID News Roundup
American Medical Directors Association to study VeriChip’s VeriMed system; T3Ci completes acquisition, renames itself Retail Solutions Inc.; new multiprotocol long-range UHF RFID reader from iDTronic; ITG announces compact two-bin item sorter for libraries; First Hawaiian Bank issues MasterCard PayPass debit cards; MachineTalker buys Micro Wireless.
Sam’s Club Suppliers May Face RFID Fines from Wal-Mart
Sam’s Club told suppliers it will begin assessing fines for failing to apply RFID labels to shipments as requested, RFID Update has learned. The warehouse-club format retailer, which is owned by Wal-Mart, also gave suppliers to a Texas distribution center a tight deadline for new pallet- and case-tagging requirements.
Capturing the Value of EPC Gen 2 Custom Commands
NXP Semiconductors and Sirit Inc. will jointly host an open webcast on Thursday, January 17 at 11:00 a.m. EST (5:00 p.m. CET) entitled . The webcast will focus on the added features in NXP’s G2X integrated circuits (ICs) and supported by Sirit’s INfinity 510 Gen 2 reader.
Wegmans Eyeing RFID for Prescription Management
The supermarket operator is planning to test whether placing RFID tags on customers’ prescription orders will make locating and ringing up the orders faster and more accurate.
Zebra Announces UHF RFID Card Printers
The devices—the first of their kind on the market—will enable end users to print and encode EPC Gen 2 RFID cards for use in access control, asset tracking, work-in-process and other applications.
Fujitsu Announces Roomy 64KB Gen2 RFID Tag
Fujitsu announced a Gen2-standard RFID chip with 64 kilobytes of user memory, which it claims is a world first for UHF RFID memory. Fujitsu is initially marketing the FRAM-based chip for aircraft maintenance applications. The product is expected to be available in the spring.
Aberdeen Announces “Winning RFID Strategies for 2008”
Aberdeen Group has released the latest installment in a series of reports on RFID adoption. Entitled , the report is available free for a limited time. This article highlights key data from the end-user survey Aberdeen conducted to prepare the report.
Carolinas Medical Center Expands Its RFID Deployment
The hospital has added 26 RFID-enabled medical supply cabinets to its cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology labs, helping it cut inventory costs and improve operations.