ILS announces compliance starter kits; RF Technologies, Emergin partnering to simplify wireless alerts; aerospace market ready for takeoff, says ABI; Ingenico integrates reader into payment PIN pad; ACG announces new RFID reader for fare collection; Ekahau raises $16 million in 2006.
CIO Insight provides an update on the item-level tagging deployment by the Dutch book retailer Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN). According to the article, the deployment is generating major benefit, so much so that BGN plans to expand it across 16 more stores before the end of next year.
The good news coming out of Europe these days is that big players are getting ready to adopt UHF RFID systems in their supply chains in a major way.
The good news coming out of Europe these days is that big players are getting ready to adopt UHF RFID systems in their supply chains in a major way.
Fish Software is adopting an ultrawide-band real-time location system to help its clients identify attendees at trade shows and other events.
ABI Research predicts that the market for RFID from the aerospace and defense industries will reach $2 billion in 2011. Drilling down into this figure, one of the key opportunities for RFID that ABI Research identifies is that of MRO, or maintanence, repair, and overhaul.
Perhaps the biggest news I heard at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe was that the new Gen 2 UHF interrogators work well in the real world.
Perhaps the biggest news I heard at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe was that the new Gen 2 UHF interrogators work well in the real world.
Shaw Industries plans to use the technology to meet Wal-Mart’s compliance mandate, and to track the movement of its rug products across its own distribution centers.
The Spanish producer of dairy products and other packaged foods hopes data from the RFID tags will optimize production, improve food safety and reduce shipping errors.