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.
A controversial bill to prohibit state and local agencies from deploying RFID in IDs has morphed into one calling for a set of interim restrictions, and a governmental study on the use of RFID in IDs.
The athletic shoe and apparel company’s initial technology tests went well; now, the firm is planning a pilot.
Walls Industries, which sells work and hunting clothes, expects to benefit internally by integrating tagging into its warehouse-management system.
ABI Research last week announced findings from a newly released study on the Chinese RFID market. The findings indicate strong momentum for Gen2 is afoot that would be hard to curb if the Chinese government went forward with a separate, national standard.
RFID-enabled wristbands really are a benefit to guests at the Great Wolf Lodge, as I learned firsthand.