Boeing, FedEx Test Active UHF Tags
The two companies have begun a proof-of-concept test to seek the FAA’s approval to place battery-powered UHF RFID tags on aircraft parts.
Axcess Offers Data Security App for Banks
The Texas firm is partnering with data storage and recovery specialist Media Recovery to enable the solution.
RFID News Roundup
ACG readers now NFC-capable; Sirit releasing new AVI interrogator; companies combine platforms for patient, asset tracking.
ODIN Wins $7m RFID Contract from DoD
RFID solutions provider ODIN technologies has been awarded a contract by the US Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to outfit the US Department of Defense’s worldwide network of distribution centers with passive RFID. The contract, which could amount to as much as $7 million, calls for 26 facilities to be RFID enabled by the end of 2007.
Smart-card Market Sees Two Acquisitions
Assa Abloy and On Track Innovations have each bought companies promising to enhance their ability to serve the global market for smart cards.
AWID Resumes Product Shipments
One month after holding up all sales of its products, the RFID interrogator manufacturer has resumed shipments of many of its products.
Game Uses RFID to Boost Social Interaction
A U.K. developer of new-media projects has created an RFID-enabled version of “snakes and ladders” to help facilitate interaction between people.
RFID Tracks Jewelry Sales, Inventory in Mideast
Fifteen retail locations in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain have begun using a system that tags and tracks jewelry items.
RFID Practices of Manufacturers and Retailers Diverge
ARC Advisory Group’s Chantal Polsonetti argues in this guest column that manufacturers should not necessarily emulate the RFID deployment practices of retailers but instead forge their own techniques that may include flexible RFID readers rather than fixed and moving beyond the use of printer/encoders.
RFID Journal Releases First Guide to RFID Resources
RFID Journal has published the “2006 Buyer’s Guide to RFID Resources,” the world’s first comprehensive guide to RFID hardware, software and service providers.