Japanese sensor manufacturer Omron this week announced the release of a “One Day” Compliance Package that the company says will allow suppliers under mandate from Wal-Mart, the US Department of Defense, and others to comply by RFID requirements quickly and affordably.
Using polymers instead of silicon to build integrated circuits, Philips researchers say they have created fully functional RFID tags capable of transmitting data at 13.56 MHz.
ABI Research today announced bearish prognostications for near-term pharma-tagging, estimating that the industry will only start tagging about ten drugs in 2006. This stands in stark contrast to predictions of just last year, when life science tag shipments were predicted to more than triple from 2005 to 2006.
The next chapter: writing RFID label information by hand.
How much investment in security is enough?
After several years of articles stating RFID would spell its death knell, end users are finding advantages to using the humble bar code.
The U.K. printing equipment developer has launched a division to help product manufacturers add RFID to their serialization marking systems.
This is the third article in a four-part series from Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, who predicts that this year will be the one RFID vanishes. This article considers privacy, standards and frequencies, the transition from Gen1 to Gen2, and the rise of analytics.
End users and academics have identified research projects across several industries that will require tens of millions of dollars in investments over the next five years.
Alien Technology, the Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of RFID readers and inlays, enjoys a current valuation of more than a half-billion dollars. This sum is based on the value of a recent divestiture by Quan Ventures.