Market research firm In-Stat this week released a report covering the WiFi segment of the overall realtime location systems (RTLS) market. The firm predicts shipments of WiFi tags will reach almost 2 million in 2010.
Stifled by the limitations of UHF RFID in Europe, Tesco has fallen behind in its planned RFID deployment and reinvented its RFID strategy.
Holmgrens Bil is using a real-time location system to help manage its 1,000-car inventory.
South Korea makes gains in RFID market; Certicom releases security platform for wireless sensors; U.S. baseball stadiums and Australian bank try PayPass; new, expanded and merged RFID vendors announced; Omron developing smart antenna; University of Parma RFID lab wins UHF spectrum license; Singapore expands RFID UHF spectrum; U.K. hospital deploys new Xtag patient-tracking system.
RFID reader manufacturer Sirit of Toronto this morning announced the acquisition of the assets of SAMSys, another RFID reader manufacturer based in Ontario, Canada. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Sirit, a provider of UHF electronic toll payment systems and high-frequency products for product authentication and tracking, will likely gain a stronger foothold in the UHF market through the purchase.
A usability test performed by Philips showed that U.S. residents might embrace NFC, but an ABI Research report says the technology needs a stronger, more uniform infrastructure.
Current Wal-Mart chief information officer Linda Dillman has been named to a new post. Dillman is one of the most recognized personalities in RFID. It was, after all, during her tenure that Wal-Mart issued the RFID mandate to its top 100 suppliers, an event that many credit with single-handedly catalyzing the RFID industry as it exists today.
A 3-D computer graphics developer wants to use radio frequency identification to enable devices to understand and interact physically in the real world.
In a release about Near Field Communication, or NFC, ABI Research of Oyster Bay, New York, has cited what it considers four leading impediments to faster adoption. NFC is an up-and-coming contactless technology by which electronic devices — paricularly cell phones — communicate with each other over a short range.