RFID printer manufacturer Zebra has agreed to pay $145 million for Navis, a logistics solutions provider to marine terminals and other operations managing supply chain cargo. Zebra also announced the $16.3 million acquisition of all outstanding shares of proveo, an RTLS company that serves the airport ground-handling operations.
Clothing merchant Industry Standard uses the technology to support social retailing, which lets shoppers confer with friends before making buying decisions.
Retailers can use the RFID tag reads as a final data point indicating goods have been received and put out on the sales floor.
The software giant is encouraging companies to develop RFID applications for the free online medical database service it recently launched.
Alien Technology has announced that its tags and readers will by deployed by Sweden’s Racetimer, which organizes and times large running and racing events. Specifically, Racetimer will use UHF Gen2 tags from Alien at the Blodomloppet race, Scandinavia’s second largest cross-country race which includes more than 40,000 runners.
The company plans to integrate Navis, Proveo and WhereNet into one business unit that provides software, hardware and services for identifying, locating and managing assets, cargo and inventory.
A student at the Cambridge University Auto-ID Labs has developed a method of evaluating RFID and non-RFID tracking systems, and is now looking for a few companies in Europe to test his thesis.
A student at the Cambridge University Auto-ID Labs has developed a method of evaluating RFID and non-RFID tracking systems, and is now looking for a few companies in Europe to test his thesis.
PC World reports on comments made by Ron Moser, RFID strategy leader at Wal-Mart, at the Taiwan International RFID Applications Show last week in Taipei. This article has highlghts of Moser’s comments.
At Overlake Reproductive Health, passive 13.56 MHz RFID tags and interrogators track human sperm, eggs and embryos throughout the assisted-reproduction process.