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.
Baird has released its January report. The 13-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.
End users need a standard for high-frequency EPC tags, and EPCglobal is close to delivering it.
The agency is using RFID to improve accuracy and reduce labor at its Maryland warehouses; in the future, it hopes to expand its use of RFID for asset tracking.
The manufacturer of cargo management and protection systems for pickup trucks uses passive RFID EPC tags to verify that it has packed the correct components into each box.
The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) installed Gen2 RFID technology to support its automated warehouse management system (WMS) at a document distribution facility in Woodlawn, Maryland. SSA expects the RFID to produce labor savings of 70 percent at the facility, which already saved $1 million annually after implementing the bar code-based WMS.