Harvard Medical School CIO Gets “Chipped”
CIO of Harvard Medical School, John D. Halamka, had himself chipped in December to evaluate the human-tagging technology for himself.
RFID News Roundup
New U.S. ID for border crossing to use RFID; Click and Vue partnering on RFID warehouse solution; GENCO, KeyTone Technologies to offer RFID training; William Frick & Co., Stratum Global combine products, services; PanGo, ePlus offer asset tracking for health care.
Intermec and Metro Getting Read Rates of 99%
Intermec and Germany’s retail giant METRO Group announce the completion of an RFID deployment at METRO’s busiest distribution center, with read rates on the 50,000 pallets tracked so far at a whopping 99%.
Ford Deploys RFID-Enabled Chargers
At its North American plants, the automaker is rolling out a battery-charging system for its electric forklifts that uses RFID to transmit data about the forklifts and their batteries.
10,000 RFID Tags in Airbus’s Revolutionary New Jumbo Jet
Unbeknownst to many, RFID plays a large role in the A380, the world’s largest commercial aircraft unveiled this week by France’s Airbus.
Gen 2 Finds a Path to ISO Approval
An EPCglobal committee has announced a recommendation that solves an issue concerning eight bits in the EPC UHF Gen 2 standard’s numbering scheme.
Label Printer Promises Fail-safe Tags
Using a proprietary process to screen out bad tags, George Schmitt & Co. guarantees the performance of 100 percent of the UHF smart labels it provides.
Gen 2 Improvements in a Nutshell
IndustryWeek.com here provides a quick but valuable run-down of the benefits GEN 2 provides over its predecessors.
Levels of RFID Maturity, Part 1
Implementing RFID successfully requires a step-by-step approach.
Retailers Say RFID Will Take Time
Representatives of Metro, Tesco and Wal-Mart told a retail audience that adoption of RFID technology will not happen overnight.