U.K. Rail Services Company Tracks Train Health Via RFID
Alstom Transport has deployed Coriel Electronics’ UHF RFID-based automatic vehicle identification solution to track rolling stock in rail yards.
Altru Health Uses RTLS to Provide Patient Updates to Visitors, Track Assets
The Wi-Fi-based system, from Ekahau, also enables a security application, whereby employees can summon help via their RTLS badges.
RFID Continues to Move Toward Mass Adoption
A post-event survey of end users who attended RFID Journal LIVE! 2014 reveals the RFID market is maturing and the technology is moving toward critical mass.
Registration Now Open for RFID Journal’s 10th Annual European Event
RFID Journal LIVE! Europe will be held on Oct. 23 in London, and will focus on the benefits of employing RFID to improve business operations across Europe.
Uncomplicating the Supply Chain
RFID can provide visibility into manufacturing and commercial operations—if all partners work together.
PDC Markets Smart Tablet RFID Reader
The tablet will enable hotels, resorts and amusement parks to read a visitor’s RFID wristband in order to provide access or services based on the ID encoded to that band’s passive tag.
RFID News Roundup
U Grok It raises $600,000 in angel funding, begins manufacturing UHF smartphone readers; Xerafy, RFID Global Solution, Alien Technology partner on RFID kit for hospitals; Holland RFID, Xerafy announce oil-and-gas partnership; Walgreens’ Duane Reade drugstores deploy Bluetooth beacons; Nivea embeds StickNFind beacons in magazine ads; CSL creates dual-mode access cards in partnership with HID, announces new temperature tag; Qualcomm establishes subsidiary as standalone Bluetooth beacon company.
Motorola Solutions’ MPact Brings Indoor Location Services to Stores
The hybrid Bluetooth beacon and Wi-Fi solution enables a retailer to identify where participating shoppers with smartphones are located, provide them with relevant promotional data and help them connect with store personnel.
DELO and Mühlbauer Work to Lower Tag Costs
The companies have released new adhesives and tag-manufacturing equipment that support the use of smaller passive UHF RFID chips and enable faster production speeds.
Airbus to RFID-Tag and Track All Parts Made In-House
The initiative will use new hybrid RFID Integrated Nameplates created by Brady, Tego and Fujitsu.