Avery Dennison, Printronix publish encoding specs; Lowry, OTA offering RFID training and certification; IBSS launches RFID tracking software, names Identec reseller; Axalto upgrading Taiwanese terminals for RFID payments; ASK offers two new HF interrogators.
The CIO of German retailer Metro Group acknowledged in an interview that the deployment of RFID across Metro’s enterprise “will render thousands of jobs superfluous.”
The U.S. Government Printing Office today awarded four companies roughly $100,000- contracts to develop RFID passport solutions.
German scientists have moved one step closer to the reality of plastic RFID tags which would be far cheaper to produce than even the most ambitious hopes for silicon-based tag prices.
General Electric’s Security division is developing a new RFID-based system that can be built into a new generation of shipping containers.
A bullish forecast for the RFID market from market research firm In-Stat predicted it increasing from $300 million in 2004 to almost $3 billion in 2009.
The Army is testing WhereNet’s real-time location system in a Pennsylvania communication equipment depot for a possible permanent deployment.
The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has completed an initiative to RFID tag equipment and devices throughout the building.
The Swiss company, one of the largest tag producers in the world, provides RFID solutions for three target markets: logistics, access control and animal identification.
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