Metalcraft offers three tag form factors; 3M Library Systems rolls out RFID workstation improvements; Inside Contactless announces new payment card inlay; Syscan sells RFID readers to Australian livestock market; IGPS adopts auto-replenish service for pallets.
Not long ago, the talk was about poor read rates for EPC tags. Today, end users are looking for perfection.
Kim Knickle, analyst with research firm Manufacturing Insights, takes a high-level look at RFID adoption in industries across the board and asserts that industry-specific expertise is a key competitive advantage RFID vendors should offer to win business.
Visa USA has helped the Nederlander Organization’s New York City theaters accept RFID-enabled payment cards.
With one successful deployment under its belt, Accelitec is working with Fujitsu Transaction Solutions to develop a customer base for its PayPilot RFID platform.
There is an industry rumor that Motorola, which recently acquired Symbol Technologies for $3.9 billion, is considering a sale of the RFID tag component of Symbol’s RFID business. RFID Update spoke with Reik Read, leading RFID industry financial analyst and author of , about Motorola’s possible divestiture.
The supermarket chain is using a system of active RFID tags and readers to track cargo containers transported by shipping and logistics company Horizon Lines.
Shipping firm Horizon Lines has gained total visibility over all its cargo shipments to Alaska with an active RFID system that tracks shipping containers in terminals, on ships, in DCs, and as they travel on highways. Grocer Safeway uses data from the system to track incoming goods to its Alaskan supermarkets.
Developed in conjunction with one of the world’s top drug companies, T3Ci’s future services will rely on newly patented software mechanisms.
Like several other Wal-Mart suppliers, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment and Handleman Co. both chose to implement a slap-and-ship tagging system using epcSolutions’ RFIDTagManager application.