Where Are All the Retailers?
If more retailers don’t see the benefits of using RFID technologies, the pace of adoption will remain slow.
Designing Discovery Services
Search engines for the EPCglobal Network will allow companies to find and share data securely.
Spotlight on Five Hot Apps
When you think outside the supply chain, amazing RFID applications will be possible.
Recognition for RFID Leaders
Introducing the winners of the first annual RFID Journal Awards.
Is Your Company At Risk?
The SAFETY Act could protect companies that sell or use RFID anti-terror solutions from tort liability.
Karstadt Readies for RFID
After years of sitting on the sidelines, Germany’s largest fashion retailer has decided to launch a six-month pilot involving the tagging of 50,000 items.
Mercy Medical Tracks Cardiovascular Consumables
The Des Moines, Iowa, hospital is employing passive HF tags to inventory its supply of stents, balloons and other devices used in its catheterization lab—and, eventually, to bill patients.
Tulsa to Deploy RFID Automated Bike Rental Racks
QI Systems, a Canadian provider of contactless solutions, last week introduced an innovative RFID-based bicycle rental automation system that will allow the public to check out and return rental bikes from unattended bike racks. Dubbed Cyclestation, the system will be initially deployed in the Tulsa, Oklahoma metropolitan area.
Pfizer Manager Discusses the Viagra RFID Pilot
A few weeks ago RFID Update published a contributed article from Pfizer that revealed key data and findings from the giant drug maker’s RFID pilot to tag all bottles of Viagra sold in the US. This follow-up article discusses what Pfizer manager Tim Marsh thinks the pilot indicates about RFID and the pharmaceutical supply chain.
NASA to Launch RFID Test to Track Crewmember Supplies
The agency is hoping passive RFID tags using surface acoustic wave technology will help it take inventory of consumable items in space.