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 International Standards Organization has made EPCglobal’s UHF Gen 2 air-interface protocol a part of its ISO/IEC 18000-6 standard.
Initially, the California drugmaker will shun RFID tags for most of its products, opting for low-cost 2-D serialized bar-code labels.
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.
The firm’s ReaderWare software can be used to add data security to HF tags now, and to UHF Gen 2 tags once they become available with extended memory.