Jail to Test RFID-Managed Phones
At a Texas correctional facility, inmates will use RFID wristbands to access the phone system and pay for calls.
KSW Makes Dual-Antenna Tags
The German company claims its new antenna, the Taurus, gives long-range tags better short-range read-write performance.
RFID News Roundup
IBM, Intermec put full middleware suite in IF5; R and V Group guarantees Gen 1 labels, drops price; Bearing Point offering bag tracking consultation; study shows little change in consumer awareness of RFID; Plitek giving inlays the third degree; Cogiscan offering RFID for electronics manufacturing; OTI shipping 10 million RFID cards in 2005; Macau casino ordering 600,000 RFID gaming pieces; CISC creates products to simulate and measure portals; USDA offers grant program for NAIS trials, research.
Major Release of Open Source RFID Platform
A major milestone release of the open source RFID platform Singularity was announced last month by the project’s overseer i-Konect. This article recaps the release’s functionality as well as the overall progress of the Singularity project.
FCC Grants ODIN Experimental License
The firm says permission to use the 866-956 MHz band enables it to offer UHF RFID system testing and design services to customers with operations both inside and outside the United States.
Hard RFID Questions for Logistics Providers
While logistics providers are still concerned about RFID issues like security, data encryption, and tag costs, their attention has shifted to problems specific to the 3PL industry. This guest article from Forrester Research looks at a few of the hard RFID questions that they are starting to tackle.
The Present and Future of RFID in Logistics
At the event held last month in Las Vegas, some of the leading logistics providers described their current progress with RFID and provided an analysis of the long-term potential of the technology’s role in their operations. This guest article from Forrester Research recaps what they said.
New RFID-Enabled Drug Pedigree Solutions
Sun Microsystems has launched one solution for deploying item-level pharmaceuticals track and trace applications with RFID. SupplyScape, Systech and Tagsys are partnering on another.
U.S. Army Uses UWB to Track Trainees
The U.S. Army is using ultra-wideband RFID sensors to help track the movements of soldiers during combat training maneuvers.
RFID Helps Gamers Break Out of Jail
An interactive game in Madrid uses radio frequency identification to track players as they try to escape from a simulated futuristic high-security jail.