Philippines drafts rules for RFID frequency, power use; SAMSys introduces Gen 2 portal reader package; research projects $2.3 billion market for RFID in health care, pharma; IP Smart Packaging is now ASURYS; Australian chipmaker receives government grant; German retailer Rewe testing RFID.
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology and giant information technology consulting firm BearingPoint have released the results of a survey they conducted of more than 300 healthcare professionals. The findings indicate a slow year in 2006, followed by a dramatic uptick in spending in 2007 and beyond. This article has more.
With standards for exchanging information over the EPCglobal Network being finalized, the vision of using RFID to track goods in the supply chain is about to become a reality. And it will change business as we know it.
Dot-coms led the Internet revolution. So why are these tech-savvy companies sitting on the sidelines while brick-and-mortar retailers lead the RFID revolution?
Using an RFID system set to launch in January, the nation’s postal service will automatically monitor tagged test envelopes as they pass through key sorting points.
RFID made many headlines this year. Which ones were the most significant?
The coming year might be remembered as the one in which manufacturers figure out how to use RFID technologies to achieve hard benefits.
A demo pulls maps from Web databases to locate a tag, revealing how RFID data can be melded with other rich data sources using Web services.
What’s in store for the RFID industry? Executives can count on another good year.
Auto-ID Labs is developing a software simulation called the Realm, which will determine optimal architectures for the EPCglobal Network.