Patent Holder Sues Wal-Mart, Others
A company called RFID World claims that leading adopters using RFID for inventory control have violated its patent, and it is suing for damages.
Chinese Railway Switching to RFID Transit Cards
Finnish smart card provider Confidex has announced a five-year contract with the transit company for 125 million high-frequency payment cards.
IDTechEx on RFID Adoption in China
Research firm IDTechEx today released an assessment of RFID adoption in China. This article summarizes the key findings on standardization, impediments to adoption, the goverment’s role, and the scale of Chinese deployments.
Xterprise Provides RFID for Plastic Pallet Pool
Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS), a startup that plans to offer an RFID-tagged all-plastic pallet pool, has selected Xterprise as its RFID solution provider. Xterprise will work with iGPS’ manufacturing partners to embed RFID tags in the pallets, and will help design business applications for the company’s pallet tracking system.
Pro Hackers Take On RFID Down Under
An Australian firm has begun using its information-security consultancy to perform RFID system audits, which include probing vulnerabilities.
United Nations CIO to Speak at AIDC 100 Event
The CIO of the U.N. World Food Program will explain the challenges of managing a logistics organization that operates in 83 countries.
HF RFID Market Sees High Growth and 125m Order
While UHF RFID technology will eventually see enormous volumes from the supply chain and retail environments, those volumes have yet to materialize. In the interim it appears that the oft-neglected high frequency (HF) RFID is an exciting source of growth and demand.
German Baker’s RFID Application Is Recipe for Success
Workers at Lebkuchen Schmidt are using tagged mixing kettles to make sure each batch of baked goods has the correct ingredients, in the proper amounts.
RFID-Enabled IDs: Educate, Don’t Legislate
Whenever we’re faced with an emerging, unproven technology such as RFID-enabled identification documents, there is a premature urge to create laws restricting or stopping it.
RFID Adoption Is Spreading
Companies from a wide variety of industries, including health care, apparel, children’s products and airlines, are embracing RFID technologies.