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

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.

New Report: RFID in the Public Sector

A new report on RFID in the public sector has been released. Commissioned by the IBM Center for the Business of Government, it is a comprehensive and up-to-date look at the technology, its many applications, and associated public sector issues. This article tells you what you need to know about the 100-page report.

Report Shows How Wal-Mart Did It

The University of Arkansas has published a study detailing how Wal-Mart’s use of RFID to track cases of products reduced out-of-stocks by 16 percent.