The program, consisting of webinars, discussion groups and support tools, is intended to help U.S. consumer goods suppliers and retailers pilot and deploy EPC-based UHF Gen 2 item-level RFID technology.
Proximiant expects its RFID-enabled solution to be used by 1,000 stores by late spring, allowing a retailer’s customers to download receipts and discount offers on their mobile phones, thereby eliminating the need for paper receipts and coupons.
Some solutions providers have instituted strategies not viable for the current state of adoption.
The Florida hospital is expanding its existing AeroScout Wi-Fi-based RFID system to track patients entering and leaving its ORs, and to display data about each patient’s status on a reader board.
Trasluz’s manufacturing plants apply EPC tags to all products, enabling the company’s warehouse to track their arrival and departure, and its franchise-operated stores to employ RFID for inventory tracking, at the point of sale and for security.
The survey, conducted by Accenture on behalf of the VICS Item Level RFID Initiative, finds that if tag prices continue to drop and adoption momentum remains steady, most retailers will be using RFID technology within five years.
Challande employs AgoraBee’s ChisFleet solution to track the locations of metal trash containers that may be dispersed to dozens or hundreds of customers throughout Switzerland.
World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 deploys 20,000 NFC posters, stickers; CAEN RFID launches new UHF long-range reader with embedded PC and GPRS; Identec Solutions’ technology to safeguard personnel at Swedish nuclear-waste facility; FastPoint Technologies earns GS1 EPCglobal software-certification mark; SITA develops NFC demo solution for airports, travelers; Thinfilm establishes partnerships for creating fully printed RFID tags, sensors.
A Florida group is studying ways to track the temperatures of food rations traversing the U.S. military’s supply chain, and is developing software that would calculate how temperature could alter shelf-life.