Texas Instruments yesterday announced that it has started using Gen2 tags on shipments of its calculators to Wal-Mart, marking the first production deployment of Gen2 tagged cases for the giant retailer’s RFID initiative.
After testing 11 different Gen 2 tags, the systems integrator reports that those from Alien, Impinj and RF IDentics came out on top.
Texas Instruments’ educational products division is the first of the retailer’s suppliers to send shipments bearing Gen 2 RFID tags.
ODIN technologies today released the , the industry’s first comprehensive analysis and performance report on Gen2 tags. RFID Update spoke with Bret Kinsella, ODIN’s vice president of operations and marketing, about the key findings.
This guest article from Mike Guillory is about the state of China’s role in RFID based on his observations from the recent Global RFID China Forum in Beijing.
The company reports that it has retooled the high-speed RFID inlay assembly machine, which should be ready as demand rises.
With its acquisition of Matrics complete, Symbol Technologies aims to compete in the UHF RFID market by providing high-performance RFID tags and interrogators and complete solutions for specific industries.
RFID payment devices might mean we’ll spend less time in lines, but will they strengthen or weaken our privacy protections? That remains to be seen.
Will RFID reach the tipping point this year? It might, but one thing is for sure—this will be the year when people realize RFID can do more than track boxes in the supply chain.
TI buys Chipcon for $200 million; Cognio releases RFID spectrum analysis tool; Oakton College building RFID lab, curriculum; Stratum and Meridian collaborate; BlueStar distributing Gen 2-compliant hardware.