Research firm IDTechEx has released a report on RFID’s application in the healthcare market and its growth prospects over the next decade. This article lists the key findings from , which predicts the healthcare market’s consumption of RFID will grow to $2.1 billion by 2016.
A Swiss firm plans to sell a new adapter that helps extend the read range of an RFID tag attached to or embedded in metal.
A group of about 60 companies and organizations in New Zealand hopes to demonstrate the potential of RFID and help businesses implement the technology.
LXE announces new forklift reader; SkyeTek announces new modules, multiplexers; Adasa rolls out PAD3500 pricing; ThingMagic taps M/A-COM as global reseller; RF Shark trolls RF waters, American RFID Solutions offers e-Learning.
Globe Composite Soluions, a manufacturer of high-strength composite materials, is focusing on making RF-transparent conveyors, containers and other objects used in conjunction with RFID.
Yesterday afternoon RFID reader manufacturer AWID issued a statement from its chairman and interim CEO Larry Kellam. In a nutshell, the statement indicates that some of the company’s products are not compliant with the rules of the FCC, the US governmental agency which regulates the radio waves.
The California-based company is investigating claims that at least some its RFID interrogators are not FCC-certified.
A six-minute video explaining the technology and its uses will soon be broadcast nationally on public television.
Yesterday Dutch book retailer Boekhandels Groep Nederland (BGN) opened what it calls the world’s first item-level tagged store. Every book in the Almere, Netherlands-based SmartStore has a Rafsec Gen2 tag attached to it. Another item-level tagged BGN SmartStore is slated to open in October. Progress Software led the deployment.
The Japanese electronics firm plans to market the interrogators, based on Impinj’s Speedway design, for use in Japan.