VDC on RFID Adoption in 2006
Market research firm Venture Development Corporation of Natick, Massachusetts, recently released a number of findings on the RFID market in 2006. This article highlights the key points.
An Award for Leadership in RFID
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Oil Refineries to Test Sensor Tags
The facilities will outfit oil tanks and cooling fans with sensor-enabled active RFID tags that can create a wireless mesh network to communicate data and initiate appropriate actions.
RFID-Enabled Billboards Talk to Mini Motorists
Mini USA is distributing RFID key fobs to Cooper owners in four U.S. cities, where interactive billboards will read the tags and flash personalized messages to drivers.
Audi Uses Semi-Passive Tags to Make TTs
At its plant in Ingolstadt, the German carmaker is employing RFID to help manage robots positioned at about 80 manufacturing and assembly stations.
There’s No Packaged Answer for RFID
Adding an RFID tag to a product’s packaging requires careful designing, but there are things you can do to help ensure a favorable outcome.
Consumer Reports Seen in a New Light
The recent scandal over car-seat tests suggests the magazine bashed RFID in search of a controversial story.
Raising Money for the Underprivileged
Anti-RFID campaigners have portrayed anyone having anything to do with RFID as an evil, money-grubbing, anti-consumer bloodsucker, but the work done for the Mike Sullivan Memorial Scholarship Fund betrays the truth.
Threat to RFID in Manufacturing May Come from Within
ARC Advisory Group’s Chantal Polsonetti discusses how RFID and other automatic identification technologies will increasingly compete with one another for the same applications, forcing vendors to demonstrate value not only over competitors offering the same technology, but also over alternative technologies that are appropriate for the application.
South African Railroad Switches to Passive RFID
Spoornet, the region’s largest rail operator, will equip its fleet of 80,000 freight railcars with UHF tags from TransCore.