Swedish Car Dealer Turns to RFID
Holmgrens Bil is using a real-time location system to help manage its 1,000-car inventory.
RFID News Roundup
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 Company SAMSys Sells Assets
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 to Buy SAMSys Technologies
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.
NFC Is Appealing But Lacks Infrastructure
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.
RFID Visionary No Longer CIO at Wal-Mart
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.
Computer Graphics Firm Adds 3-D to RFID
A 3-D computer graphics developer wants to use radio frequency identification to enable devices to understand and interact physically in the real world.
Four Hurdles to Wider NFC Adoption
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.
Boeing Selects Chipmaker for Parts Tags
Intelleflex will supply a chip for the passive tags Boeing wants placed on parts for its Dreamliner jets, but the chips will have one-eighth the memory Boeing originally requested.
New Chip Could Transform Active RFID Market
Last week G2 Microsystems announced the introduction of a new “system-on-chip” technology that it claims will bring down the cost and widen the application of real-time location system (RTLS) solutions. RFID Update spoke with a number of RTLS experts about the new chip and its potential to change the space.