Reva Systems and Impinj today announced what they are calling a performance breakthrough for RFID deployments in Europe, where adoption in the supply chain has been hindered by poor performance owing to restrictions on radio frequency allocations.
Only handfuls of technicians are equipped to handle the high-level RFID deployments that an increasing number of companies are demanding. In a February 2006 survey of 80 companies working with RFID technology conducted by CompTIA, 75 percent of respondents said they don’t believe there’s a sufficient pool of talent in RFID to hire from.
The recent outbreak of E. coli in bags of fresh spinach in the United States highlighted the need for better traceability in the food chain—which RFID will one day be able to deliver.
The company’s Branch Portal system is designed to help banks and retailers improve service by identifying customers as they enter a branch office or store.
Intelleflex announces new semi-active, passive products; Confidex releases two metal-mount Gen 2 tags; Sun’s Dallas RFID Center moves to Colorado; Mattel playing with RFID.
The new service assures that health-care, pharmaceutical and chemical companies’ products remain at appropriate temperatures during transit.
Enterprise infrastructure software provider BEA this week announced the 2.0 release of its WebLogic RFID Enterprise Server. The software solution is aimed at providing centralized visibility and management of the increasingly distributed nature of RFID deployments.
Interoperability testing performed this summer by EPCglobal’s EPC Information Services working group proved successful.
Research firm Venture Development Corporation of Natick, Massachusetts, just released a bulletin on item-level tagging in the pharmaceutical industry. This article highlights the key points.
One sign of just how far RFID has come is that half the new technologies being written about are going to spell RFID’s demise.