HP’s RFID Center of Excellence to Market Cloud-based Rotating RFID Portal
The center is preparing to offer the portal—featuring an RFID reader that revolves around a pallet loaded with tagged items—to companies in Brazil and worldwide.
Omni-ID’s View 10 Tag Aims to Replace Paperwork at Detroit Diesel, Other Factories
The View 10 includes passive and active RFID, Wi-Fi and IR technologies, a 10.1-inch screen and enough memory to store and display more than 160 pages of info that workers can view automatically at their assembly stations.
Expectations for RFID Journal LIVE! 2014
More companies are attending the event, with plans to invest in RFID to solve their business problems.
Hanmi IT Markets Item-Level RFID Tracking Software, New Readers
The software, designed by Hanmi Pharmaceutical’s IT division, is being piloted by Korean government agencies, while a future installation by a pharmaceutical company is in the works to manage products from factory to drug store.
Elatec Wins IT innovation Award 2014
Elatec’s TWN4 Tech Tracer Kit received 3rd place at IT innovation Award 2014.
Alien Intros Wonder Dog Tag for Challenging Environments, SIT H4 for Small Items
The Wonder Dog operates well around metal and liquids, while the SIT H4 is tiny enough for jewelry and medicine. Both are made with the Higgs 4 chip.
RFID News Roundup
HID Global intros Seal Tag with integrated cable tie, settles patent lawsuits; InSync releases iApp Cobalt Platform for Internet of Things and RFID applications; Farsens unveils the Pyros, a battery-free RFID thermistor-based temperature sensor tag; Nomi puts its beacons in Easter eggs for high-tech hunt to raise money for charity; CNRFID, Convergent Software team up to develop RFID privacy impact assessment software; Agilent Technologies announces NFC Forum approval for analog test system; Beaconic’s beacon technology gets Apple’s iBeacon Mark.
New Impinj Chip Promises Higher Sensitivity, Read Range and Flexibility
The Monza R6 can retune itself according to its environment and test the integrity of the EPC and TID numbers encoded to it, and features two copper pads to make antenna attachment easier and cheaper.
RFID Technology’s Use in Retail to Be Highlighted at LIVE! 2014
RFID Journal’s 12th annual conference and exhibition will feature presentations from industry leaders Alex and Ani, Hudson’s Bay Co., Macy’s, Marks & Spencer, and Saks Fifth Avenue.
Asahi Glass Co. Tracks Documents via Smart Shelves
The Japanese company is using Cell Form RFID antennas to know the locations of 6,000 files, and when a particular document was removed, thereby reducing labor hours and the risk of a misplaced document.