Bag Maker Adopts RFID Solution to Prevent Counterfeits, Gray Market
Bagjack is using Serfides’ authentication software to track high-end messenger bags shipped from its German manufacturing site and, eventually, within a store.
Washington State’s Toll Collector Trials RFID-enabled Phone Tag, App
GeoToll’s new tag attaches to a commuter’s NFC-enabled phone and uses the phone’s HF NFC signal to power that tag’s UHF transponder.
Forestry Company Expands RFID Deployment
Hawaiian Legacy Hardwoods is printing and encoding RFID tags onsite to record each tree’s maintenance and location, while the company intends to also track equipment and personnel.
Technology for Sale
Having tags and readers that perform better than existing products does not mean you have a business.
RFID and Environmental Sustainability: An Unlikely Partnership
A study by a team of academic researchers shows that rather than being a potential problem for recycling, RFID usage can improve environmental sustainability, by providing more accurate and timely information to an organization’s green supply chain management practices.
Finding Needles in a Haystack
A new report about hospitals’ adoption of real-time location systems illustrates the challenges faced by RFID solution providers.
Motorcycle Company Tracks Visitors Via RFID
India’s TVS Motor Co. has installed active tags and readers to monitor the locations of guests as they move throughout the 250-acre compound, thereby preventing security breaches.
RFID News Roundup
RF Code launches new mobile management platform for data centers; IMI’s CreativeLift lifting magnets now come with InfoChip RFID technology; STid intros new modular RFID access-control reader, configurable wirelessly via Impinj chip; Spanish startup ThirteenFiftySix developing NFC wristband to control smartphones; Savi releases Savi Mobile Tracking System 2.4; Haldor, Belimed team up on real-time surgical instrument-management system.
Sanraku Hospital, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Added to RFID in Health Care 2013 Agenda
RFID Journal’s ninth health-care event will focus on solutions that can improve patient safety, hospital operations and supply chain efficiencies.
Saks’ RFID Deployment Ensures Thousands of Shoes Are on Display
By placing an EPC passive tag on every shoe sample, four Saks Fifth Avenue stores have reduced the amount of labor required to inventory the sales floor from 16 hours down to 20 minutes.