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.
Managing User Memory
How to read and write data on Gen 2 RFID tags.
RFID May Prevent Sunburn
An NFC-powered sensor and smartphone application could soon warn sun worshippers when it’s time to find shade.
Getting to the Tipping Point
Apparel retailers and manufacturers will soon be engaged in a “virtuous cycle” that will lead to item-level tagging throughout the supply chain.
Monitoring Aging Infrastructure
An RFID tag’s antenna can serve as a sensor to detect cracks in concrete and other construction materials.
We’re Not KDDing
Next up: making sense of all the Internet of Things data.