Marnlen Makes Privacy-Friendly Tags for Retail Items
The label maker is using IBM’s Clipped Tag design, allowing consumers to tear off most of a passive RFID tag’s antenna on items they have purchased.
Pro-Privacy Tearable RFID Tag Becomes a Reality
IBM has licensed its innovative Clipped Tag technology to label converter Marnlen RFiD, who has already started shipping samples to select end users. According to what Marnlen’s vice president of business development Andris Lauris told RFID Update, the tags are ready for immediate production, and the company is taking orders.
RFID Brings Further Automation to Mail-Order Pharmacy
The introduction of RFID is expected to reduce errors during the picking and packing process by 99 percent.
MasterCard and 7-Eleven Launch NFC Trial
During the trial, participating consumers will download a contactless-payment application to their mobile phones, enabling them to use the phones just as they would NFC-enabled contactless payment cards.
Fighting Fires With RFID and Wireless Sensors
A new product aims to provide more details about fire, speeding up efforts to control them.
RFID Laptop Tracking Sees Adoption
The cost of stolen laptops is going up, and the market is looking to RFID for help. Vector Networks this week announced the addition of an RFID-based asset tracking application to its suite of offerings. The solution allows enterprises to quickly locate and track valuable assets such as laptops that are constantly moved from one location to another.
QinetiQ and Crown Develop Item Containers With Antenna-less RFID Tags
The companies say the tags harvest power from the container itself, making them resistant to interference from adjacent liquids and metals.
Lantech Offers RFID-Enabled Stretch-Wrapper
With Symbol’s RD5000 mobile reader mounted on the film-delivery system, companies can interrogate Gen 2 EPC tags while applying stretch-wrap to a pallet.
Fiat Shows How RFID Could Help Recycle Car Parts
The Fiat-designed test system, part of the EC-funded PROMISE project, tracks components using an RFID-enabled computer built into a vehicle.
Smart Dust Innovator Targets RFID
A key innovator of so-called smart dust has returned to the lab to extend the technology’s capabilities into the RFID realm. UC Berkeley professor Kristofer Pister believes potential enhancements in meshed sensor networks could fulfill RFID’s promise of asset visibility.