Retail Big-Data Startup Competition
The Auto-ID Labs at MIT is sponsoring a contest to create a prototype for a retail application leveraging big data to improve the retail demand chain.
GS1 and VICS to Merge
The Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association will become part of the bar-code and RFID standards body.
Retail Big-Data Startup Competition
The Auto-ID Labs at MIT is sponsoring a contest to create a prototype for a retail application leveraging big data to improve the retail demand chain.
RFID’s Land of Opportunity: the Middle East
The region’s oil and gas industry possesses a distinctive collection of traits that offer a phenomenal potential for RFID and RTLS technology adoption.
Hitachi Chemical Markets Tiny UHF Tag
Measuring only 2.5 millimeters in length and width, the Ultra-Small Package tag has a read range that can be boosted by means of an external antenna or other metallic object.
What Could Be in Health Care
Many hospitals are using RFID for one application or another, but no one has yet put it all together.
What Are Contactless Smart Cards?
What are the read and write ranges of such cards—and how can those ranges be increased? —Name withheld ——— Contactless smart cards are plastic cards (usually the size of a credit card) with an embedded radio frequency identification transponder. The RFID microchip can...
Electronics Retail Store Reveals Pilot Results
Grupo Éxito, in Colombia, reports that during a three-month trial, RFID reduced inventory costs by 93 percent and inventory losses by 60 percent.
Would It Be Feasible to Tag and Track Almost a Million Fish Simultaneously?
We have a customer that needs to count 750,000 fish within a tank. The diameter of each fish is about 50 millimeters (2 inches). The customer is tagging the fish with low-frequency (LF) glass tags. Can we track the 750,000 fish tags using some type of reader? Are...RFID News Roundup
Swiss Post begins tracking trays of letters via RFID; automotive plants in Germany and North America adopt Ubisense’s RTLS; Xerafy introduces specialty RFID tags designed for the construction and gas-distribution industries; EMVCo and NFC Forum collaborate to optimize NFC development and testing processes; Getac UK intros rugged tablet with glove-friendly touchscreen and optional RFID reader.