Since the systems need to track pallets of goods containing RF-unfriendly liquids and metals, the company chose battery-assisted tags to achieve the high reads required by clients in France.
The funding will help support a three-year $16.5 million initiative dedicated to the use of RFID systems, primarily those based on EPCglobal standards.
The technology will track express-service mailbags transported to various postal-collection and sortation centers throughout Shanghai.
SkyeTek, the Westminster, Colorado-based provider of embedded RFID readers, this week announced security enhancements to its product line that the company says represent a key development in the widening adoption of item-level RFID tagging.
Academics at Kansas State University will work with Tyson and other meat processors to understand better the environmental variables affecting RFID technology for beef-tracking.
RFID Apparel & Footwear Summit will focus on the business benefits of RFID for apparel and footwear manufacturers and retailers.
The auto-ID systems maker will integrate Baumer’s portfolio of RFID tracking solutions.
The U.S. company plans to tag 100 percent of the cases it ships to retailers automatically, saving $83,000 yearly in labor costs.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has amended its existing passive UHF RFID standard to include the EPCglobal Gen2 standard. The inclusion now means that Gen2-compliant RFID hardware will also be considered compliant by ISO standards.
The pharmaceutical industry eagerly anticipated an update to the FDA’s 2004 report. The update, released June 9th, clarifies the FDA’s plans regarding the Prescription Drug Marketing Act and RFID adoption. ABI Research’s Sara Shah discusses its implications for the future of RFID-based track and trace.