It’s been more than 14 months since Pfizer went live with its pilot to tag all of Viagra trade items with RFID technology for the U.S. market. This article is a contribution from Pfizer itself discussing findings and data revealed by more than one year of piloting RFID at the item-, case-, and pallet-level.
The retailer’s new Tag It Easy program with Checkpoint Systems will enable 30 Chinese suppliers to tag goods bound for Metro stores in Germany.
The project, which is being conducted by the university, consumer goods associations and a major retailer, will explore how tagging individual goods with RFID can improve retail processes.
The Southeast Asian RFID systems provider is offering Intelli-MDS to help health-care providers track pharmaceuticals and monitor dosages.
Designed to roam a facility and locate tagged assets, the Homer can also be used to retrieve and deliver them.
Baird has released its May 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.
At the fifth RFID Academic Convocation, held in conjunction with RFID Journal LIVE! 2007, end users and researchers discussed issues that must be addressed to enhance RFID’s value in the health-care sector.
The undertaking tested several EPCglobal standards and involved four pilots tracking goods with RFID as they moved across countries and oceans.
Logistics giant DHL, RTLS firm AeroScout, and vehicle tracking and fleet asset management solutions provider Microlise have together developed a cold chain solution to track and ensure regulatory compliance of pharmaceuticals as they travel through the supply chain.
The new tag supports both Wi-Fi and ISO 24730 RTLS standards, to help companies more easily track assets throughout their organizations.