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.
Aerospace Company Tests RFID Solution for Tracking Cell Phones
The project uses GuardRFID’s Active Label, a 6-millimeter-thick, battery-powered 433 MHz tag small enough for monitoring mobile devices, tools and thermometers.
Intel’s Gen 4 vPro Computer Processors Feature AeroScout Wi-Fi RTLS Technology
Intel’s new processor comes with a built-in AeroScout active RFID Wi-Fi tag that can operate with new AeroScout software to provide security options based on that tag’s location, and help laptop and tablet users find individuals or items within their vicinity.
Airlines Could Benefit From RFID-Enabled Baggage Handling
Despite a decline in the number of problems per thousand travelers, mishandled bags still cost the global airline industry $2.6 billion annually. RFID could help.
NFC Brings Real-Time Audio Commentary to America’s Cup Spectators
Live2Media’s Livecard system includes a radio receiver that operates only when its built-in NFC reader detects an authorized RFID tag and, based on that tag, determines which channels an individual can access.
RFID News Roundup
New York Comic Con adopts RFID to control counterfeiting; Virginia High School installs Ekahau’s RFID solution to bolster emergency responses; Assuta Medical Center implements LogiTag’s SmartCabinet; Sentara Healthcare, Trinitas Regional Medical Center select Versus RTLS; Germany’s Kassel-Calden airport tests RFID to guide visually impaired visitors; Central College Nottingham tests NFC to help teach English as a foreign language.
GoToTags Releases High-Speed NFC Encoder, Software
The system, one of the many NFC RFID products and services that the company offers, is designed to encode a reel of passive tags at a rate of up to five inlays per second.