Don’t Just Automate—Innovate!
RFID can do much more than speed up existing processes.
Colorbit USA Debuts Color-based Auto-ID Solution
The company is marketing the technology in North America and Europe, enabling users to track goods or assets via a printed or painted color code captured by a digital camera.
RFID News Roundup
Alien Technology unveils new 4-port fixed UHF reader; Tageos expands its product range with RFID hangtags; Metalcraft announces destructible RFID windshield tags; Serialio debuts, demos new RFID products; William Frick intros high-temperature RFID tag for manufacturing, industrial applications; MTI Wireless launches new family of slim, low-profile RFID antennas; Voyantic launches new HF tag performance measurement system; Lockheed Martin chooses RFID Revolution’s RFID Essentials E-learning to boost productivity from RFID.
NXP Releases Ucode 7, a Faster and More Sensitive Chip
The new chip promises to be the highest-functioning EPC Gen 2 UHF RFID IC on the market, the company claims, enabling the development of smaller, more versatile tags.
Fraunhofer IFF Develops Tracking Solution Using RFID, GPS and Cellular Technology
The system features a device designed to locate large items in storage yards by transmitting its GPS location via a cellular connection, using RFID technology to link the tracking unit to the object to which it attached.
InfoChip Markets Signal-Boosting Add-on HF Antenna and RFID Phone App
The Sniper, attached to a standard high-frequency reader or an NFC-enabled smartphone, can make it possible to read very small HF tags, after which users can access data linked to the tags on the company’s cloud-based server.
Xerafy Releases Tap-In On-Metal Tag
The new UHF EPC Gen 2 tag, available in two sizes, can be pressed or hammered directly into a circular hole in a metal object, without requiring epoxy to hold it in place.
Making the RFID Connection
End users and solution providers are beginning to understand the value of RFID Connect.
Impinj Unveils New UHF Readers for RTLS Applications, Embedding in Other Devices
The xArray can interrogate UHF RFID tags within a 40-foot diameter and identify an item’s location, while the Indy RS500 system-in-package chip provides a simplified way to add reader functionality to a device.
Leaders from Across All Industries to Attend RFID Journal LIVE! 2013
Business professionals from leading companies in every sector and from around the world will attend the conference and exhibition, to be held Apr. 30 to May 2, in Orlando, Fla.