2013 RFID Journal Awards: Honoring Excellence
Meet this year’s award winners.
RFID Special Achievement Award: The Man Who Changed the World
Kevin Ashton worked tirelessly to make his vision of inexpensive, ubiquitous and standardized RFID a reality.
RFID Special Achievement Award: The Man Who Changed the World
Kevin Ashton worked tirelessly to make his vision of inexpensive, ubiquitous and standardized RFID a reality.
RFID Green Award: The Economic Benefits of Going Green
The city and residents of Grand Rapids, Mich., are benefiting from RFID-based recycling and garbage-collection solutions.
Most Innovative Use of RFID: RFID Helps Amputees Manipulate Prosthetic Hands
MORPH, developed by Infinite Biomedical Technologies, lets users control their environment.
Best Use of RFID to Enhance a Product or Service: Boeing Program Automates Aircraft Maintenance Tasks
RFID Integrated Solutions, certified by the FAA, promises to help airlines save labor, time and money.
Best in Show: RFID Gets xArray Vision
Impinj’s new reader is installed in ceilings, where it can keep an eye on tagged assets and inventory in stores, hospitals and shipping facilities.
Best RFID Implementation: RFID Makes Order Out of Chaotic Distribution Chain
Hanmi Pharmaceutical developed an automated picking and shipping system, to ensure hospitals and pharmacies get the medical products they need.
Farmers Learn to Milk RFID
The technology is slowly gaining traction as a way to identify cattle, deer and other livestock for disease management and prevention. But without government mandates, it will likely take other business benefits to spur adoption.
Update on the Round Rock Patent-Infringement Lawsuit
Little progress has been made in the courts, but some RFID providers and end users are taking steps to deal with the issue so they can deploy EPC technology.