UPM Raflatac announces library tag warranty; analyst firm sizes Chinese RFID market; Visa bringing payWave to Switzerland; Netc announces RFID printing-encoding software for storage-media labels; Tracient introduces lightweight handheld UHF reader.
At the racecourse, an embedded passive tag allows access to the arena and a special VIP area; at home, fans can use the rectangular DVD to watch a presentation about the race team and its members.
Jergens is fitting passive HF RFID tags to hoist rings for industrial cranes. The tags will store safety-testing and repair data, which the company plans to use to improve its products.
The Italian project will track packaged meat at the factory, distribution center and retail store, in an effort to quantify the benefits of using RFID and EPCglobal services in the fast-moving consumer goods supply chain.
The company is doing some interesting work that could deliver a lot of benefits down the road.
Investor site TheStreet.com published an article yesterday about investing in RFID stocks. While the key takeaway is the same as ever — there are currently no obvious publicly-traded stocks to use as an RFID investment vehicle — the article offers a handful of points worth highlighting.
Hewlett-Packard’s RFID installation in Brazil, as well as other innovations with the technology, has put it squarely in the vanguard of forward-thinking companies leveraging auto-identification technologies.
Hewlett-Packard’s RFID installation in Brazil, as well as other innovations with the technology, has put it squarely in the vanguard of forward-thinking companies leveraging auto-identification technologies.
The organization will attach Wi-Fi based active RFID tags to 5,000 medical devices, to help ensure equipment is properly serviced and available where and when it is needed.
Beginning in November, three of the state’s farms will begin using EPC Gen 2 RFID tags so farmers, retailers and distributors can monitor product movement and trace problem produce back to its source.