This is the final part of a three-part series that examines middleware and other RFID integration options and the issues surrounding them. This third installment questions whether RFID middleware has a place in a maturing RFID market and what role it might play.
The company hopes to encourage other RFID tag and reader makers to offer 433 MHz RFID hardware based on the ISO 18000-7 standard; the DOD will likely benefit.
Cambridge Consultants and Philips Semiconductors have built a prototype system that uses near-field communications to link a glucometer and an insulin pump.
National Patient Safety Agency is seeking hospitals to participate in a 2007 trial, hoping to reduce the number of ABO-incompatible transfusions by 50 percent.
EPCglobal awards certification to MTI’s Gen 2 reader; Brooks Automation announces new HF reader; Cognio teams with Meritech, upgrades Spectrum Tool; PanGo, Versus partnering on health-care applications; Wells Fargo begins issuing Visa Contactless cards.
The company will apply tags to individual boxes of riding toys made in its factory, and eventually plans to tag the vehicles’ components.
With temperature sensors linked to battery-powered RFID tags, the system can record not only an animal’s location, but also its health.
Embedded with EPC Gen 2 tags, Intelligent Global Pooling Systems’ pool of pallets can be tracked throughout the supply chain. Sensors connected to tags can indicate if products suffered damage in transit.
TekVet LLC, a Utah-based developer of agricultural technology, has selected IBM to host and manage the data centers for its RFID-based cattle tracking and temperature monitoring system. The livestock tracking system allows cattle producers and investors to remotely monitor animal location via the Internet in real time.
Walls Industries, which sells work and hunting clothes, expects to benefit internally by integrating tagging into its warehouse-management system.