New Balance Stepping Up Its Use of RFID
With its first RFID deployment complete, the maker of athletic shoes and clothing is testing whether the technology can improve operations inside New Balance retail outlet stores.
New RFID Module Aimed at Growing OEM Opportunity
RFID reader module manufacturer SkyeTek announced new professional services to help OEMs design and integrate RFID readers into their products, and a new high-security 13.56 MHz reader module that can be optimized for product authentication, cashless payment or access control applications.
Dillard’s Gears Up for Item-Level Pilot
The retailer is working with a jeans manufacturer that will apply tags to individual garments and ship them to a store in Dallas.
Kids Clothes Firm Outgrows HF, Puts on Gen2 RFID
RFID infrastructure provider Reva Systems has announced that children’s fashion apparel manufacturer Lemmi Fashion of Germany is converting its existing intercontinental RFID deployment from high frequency (HF) to ultrahigh frequency (UHF) technology, and using Reva’s solution to unify and manage it.
Aggressive Sales Growth Predicted for Passive Tags in North America
Frost & Sullivan expects a compound annual growth rate of 21.5 percent during the next six years, spurred in part by increased adoption in Canada.
RFID Documents Surgery at Huntsville Hospital
The Alabama facility is using passive HF tags to verify a patient’s identity and document the surgical process, from admission to discharge.
Lemmi Fashion Changes Frequency
The German children’s clothing manufacturer says falling costs and global standardization influenced its decision to migrate from HF to UHF tags for product tracking.
Summary of Baird RFID Monthly for August
Baird has released its August report. The 15-page document is a worthwhile read for anyone requiring an overview of the industry’s last 30 days. For those without time to do so, we have reprinted here the report’s summary.
Swedish Steelmaker Using Active RFID to Monitors Railcars
The company expects that the system will help it manage the flow of materials transported by rail and plan production more efficiently.
Microsoft Moves Into RFID in a Big Way
The software giant’s stepped-up RFID activities signal the start of the next stage of RFID’s development—a massive increase in software applications that leverage RFID data.