One of the new tags is designed to harvest RF energy from the products to which it is attached, thereby boosting performance; the other, measuring 7 millimeters, is built to withstand laundry and sterilization process.
Antennas must be lightweight, low-cost and powerful enough to support sensors in health-care applications.
The solution includes an RFID-enabled locking cabinet and a Kanban supply-management system, the latter of which is being used by Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus.
A special board reads which letters are on which squares, and then broadcasts that information via the Internet.
In Utah, Blue Lemon uses the RFID-based system to identify where its customers have seated themselves, and to measure how long it takes for an order to be served.
The Transfusion Medicine RFID Consortium is seeking 510(k) clearance from the FDA for the blood-tracking solutions it developed, which technology provider S3Edge intends to market to blood banks, clinics and hospitals.
Retailers tracking unique items via radio frequency identification are concerned about how to take advantage of all the data they collect. A recent MIT-sponsored event began to address this issue.