The company wants to use passive UHF tags to determine which items it has in storage and when they are removed or returned, in order to increase inventory visibility and reduce shrinkage.
Checkpoint Systems and Avery Dennison have reported that revenue from RFID products is growing.
The company’s NTAG21x series supports such functions as tracking which tags have been accessed by consumers, off-line authentication via a digital signature and the ability for a tag to count the number of times it is read.
NorthPeak, Epsilia unveil RFID-enabled solution to improve cold-chain performance; Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies, TagMaster NA combine long-read-range and smart-card technologies; London’s Portland Hospital implements patient security solutions from Stanley Healthcare; NXP delivers NFC to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 devices; Murata, Cogiscan intro RFID-based PCB traceability solutions; Ekahau introduces Vision 2.0 location analytics platform for hospitals.
West Virginia University is deploying Evive Station’s RFID-enabled kiosks that clean and refill reusable water bottles for free, while displaying advertising targeted to a particular user’s demographics.
The passive EPC tags and readers allowed managers of the Twin Cities’ Zombie Pub Crawl to count the event’s undead participants, as well as control access more efficiently and prevent gate-crashing.
Passive EPC UHF tags allow users to track the locations and inspection histories of the protective garments used by hospital staff.
The solution, which the airline has been testing on its flights, uses Cold Chain Technologies’ insulated containers and Intelleflex’s RFID sensor tags.
Highlights from the recent RFID Journal LIVE! Europe event, held last week in Oslo, show that the technology can deliver benefits in many ways.