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.
RFID News Roundup
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.
Achieving Perfect Read Rates
Not long ago, the talk was about poor read rates for EPC tags. Today, end users are looking for perfection.
Manufacturing Insights on RFID Adoption
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.
RFID Lands a Role on Broadway
Visa USA has helped the Nederlander Organization’s New York City theaters accept RFID-enabled payment cards.
Accelitec Partners With Fujitsu on RFID Payments
With one successful deployment under its belt, Accelitec is working with Fujitsu Transaction Solutions to develop a customer base for its PayPilot RFID platform.