The dean of Auburn University’s College of Business, and the founder of the University of Arkansas’ RFID Research Center, will cover a wide range of topics related to radio frequency identification deployments.
Ekahau intros anti-theft Wi-Fi tag for laptop and tablet computers; Smartrac launches high-temperature hard tag for industrial applications; Secura Key announces new standalone reader kit; Harting unveils box with integrated reader, power supply and network switch; Louisville skyscraper adopts TagMaster and HID technology to automate parking access; Chido fast-food restaurant adds NFC-enabled loyalty program.
Faerch Plast is using an EPC Gen 2 UHF RFID system from Prosign to keep a better eye on the reusable steel cages it utilizes to deliver its products to customers.
The medical manufacturing and health-care industries have 120 days to comment on the new rules, which will require many medical devices to carry a printed text identification number and bar-code label or RFID tag ID that would be stored on an FDA database.
A study conducted by Retail Systems Research indicates that retailers have in-store issues that RFID can solve, but they don’t seem aware of what the technology can do.
Nedschroef, a Dutch manufacturer of metal fasteners for the automobile industry, tracks information regarding 4,500 metal containers filled with as many as 100,000 nuts.
The German manufacturer of industrial air conditioners now has visibility into which parts are arriving at its final assembly plant.