Rug manufacturer Shaw Industries is going well beyond its Wal-Mart compliance requirements with a 37-facility expansion of its existing RFID pilot. Shaw says the system will provide strong ROI by increasing shipment accuracy, enabling better customer service, improving supply chain visibility, and shortening lead times.
IDTechEx predicts the sale of tags for pallets and cases will more than double in 2007, but that tag usage for high-value and store-brand items will grow much faster.
The port’s goals for its 2.4 GHz active-tag system also include shortening truck waits at the gate and increasing the visibility of traffic.
The new online system enables the more than 3,000 attendees and exhibitors participating in RFID Journal’s fifth annual conference and exhibition to meet online, arrange meetings and achieve event goals.
In this Viewpoint from AIM Global, Editor Bert Moore discusses the supposed “victory” privacy advocates achieved when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security opted to use bar codes instead of RFID on driver’s licenses.
Fabless semiconductor startup Starport Systems last week announced the SP7001, a Gen2 RFID reader chip whose reduced price and small form factor the company hopes will enable the incorporation of RFID into far more devices than is possible today, eventually resulting in the emergence of a new class of RFID applications.
Starting with the 48,000-runner BolderBoulder race, IPICO Sports plans to deploy more than 400,000 passive tags and 500 readers over the next two years.
RFID Journal’s fifth annual conference and exhibition, to be held April 30 to May 2, 2007, will feature a keynote address by Ravi Kalakota, vice president and managing partner at Unisys.
RFID system replaces bar codes to track whether Thalia’s stores have returned the company’s book bins.