Hewlett Packard made headlines this week with its announcement of a tiny, wireless microchip capable of relatively high storage and data transfer rates. It seems like a Gen2 tag on steroids, and indeed some articles about the chip are calling it a competitor to RFID. Not likely.
The first meeting of the Senate RFID Caucus covered a wide variety of business and public-policy issues.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey is inviting chronically ill policyholders to participate in a two-year trial to test implanted RFID tags.
The Texas firm is distributing and deploying RFID systems that employ tags using surface acoustic wave technology for tracking assets, especially in factories and other industrial environments.
Power Paper of Israel, together with value-added reseller NBG ID of France, have announced two large-scale RFID deployments at the French distribution centers of a leading global logistics company. The projects have utilized tens of thousands of battery-assisted passive UHF RFID tags from Power Paper’s PowerID division.
RFID interrogators and software are being deployed at terminals in Savannah, the country’s fourth-largest port, to track shipments from all over the world.
The Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources heard testimony from representatives of pharmaceutical and RFID firms.
The U.S. Tax Court has deployed the 3M File Tracking System to keep better tabs on files related to income tax and other law cases.
A European initiative to mature and expand the use of EPCglobal applications launched this week in Brussels. Called the Building Radio frequency IDentification solutions for the Global Environment, or “BRIDGE”, project, it has European Commission support, 7.5 million euros in funding, and a three-year timeline.
The technology will track express-service mailbags transported to various postal-collection and sortation centers throughout Shanghai.