GE Announces Plans to Develop RFID-Guided Robots for Managing Surgical Tools
Scientists at GE Global Research will spend two years developing a prototype system for VA hospitals, using RFID to help automate the process of transporting, cleaning and storing surgical tools.
Steel Tube Finishing Firm Tries RFID to Track Personnel, Tools
OCTG and its technology provider, Silent Partner, have also formed a new company to market a solution that tracks the manufacture, inspection and threading of tubes before they are shipped to drill sites.
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What Is a Microstrip Antenna?
Can you please explain what this term means? —Name withheld ——— A microstrip antenna is not, as the name seems to imply, a very thin linear antenna. It is actually a common form of planar antenna. A microstrip antenna is made up of a dielectric substrate sandwiched...
SML Group Announces New Tags, Production Center
The Hong Kong-based company has opened a new facility in North Carolina, and has released three new EPC RFID inlays designed for fast encoding and read sensitivity.
Could We Use a 2.4 GHz Active RFID Reader to Interrogate 2.4 GHz Passive Tags?
Would it be possible for our company to do this, given the same frequency? —Name withheld ——— No, I’m sorry, but that would not be possible. Frequency is not the only factor involved in tag-to-reader communication—the tags and readers must also employ the same...RFID News Roundup
German senior citizens home implements Ekahau Wi-Fi RTLS; Smartrac builds out PVC UHF prelaminate product range; Canada’s Translink adopts NXP’s Mifare for Vancouver’s public transport system; Tagitron expands family of RFID readers, antennas, tags and inlays; NXP, Exceet Card Group deliver ITSO-compliant smart-card solution for Scotland’s National Entitlement Card.
RFID Helps NOCSAE Study Youth Football Helmets
The National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment employed EPC Gen 2 passive tags and readers to track the headgear retrieved from youth football groups, in order to carry out tests.