LifeSynk Lets Consumers Use RFID to ‘Like’ Products, Stores and Events
The system employs RFID cards and readers to link shoppers’ activities with their Facebook accounts, enabling the marketing of events, businesses or products, and providing users with discounts and other offers.
At Hospitals, Wi-Fi Sensors Can Monitor Emergency Lights, Code Blue Situations
Many of Primex Wireless’ customers are using its Wi-Fi-based solutions to automate the testing of emergency lighting, measure the length of cardiopulmonary emergencies, record temperature levels and detect water leaks.
Can an RFID Kapton Label Be Printed With a Spacer for Use on a Printed Circuit Board?
My company is searching for an RFID label encapsulated in Kapton (a polyimide film developed by DuPont that remains stable at a wide range of temperatures) that would be very small—much like the 2D Kapton bar-code labels that are currently run through normal bar-code...
What Have We Learned About RFID?
While the past 10 years have seen ups and downs when it comes to the use of radio frequency identification, we now know a great deal about how and where the technology delivers value.
Asset-Tracking Technology Helps iGPS Rescue Its Pallets
The company is using a combination of EPC Gen 2 RFID and battery-powered GPS/GPRS tags to increase visibility into its pool of plastic pallets, and to save missing pallets from being chopped up and sold to recyclers.
The High Cost of Patent Trolls
Companies whose business is threatening alleged infringers exact money that could fund innovation.
Omni-ID Launches UltraThin Metal-Mount Tags
The new tags, which measure approximately 0.05 inch in thickness, are being used or tested by about 20 companies to track laptops, oil pipes, shopping carts and other assets.
How Does Anti-Collision Work?
And how can an RFID reader communicate simultaneously with more than one passive tag using such a technique? —Name withheld ——— I will explain the basic concept of anti-collision here, and then point you to some information that goes into more depth. Readers can not...RFID News Roundup
Alien Technology adds Low-Level Reader Protocol support to interrogators; Powercast announces RF-based chipset and RF energy-harvesting reference; Met Labs completes first round of medical-device RFID susceptibility testing; Libelium debuts new Wi-Fi sensors for Web-enabled servers, Apple, Android devices; New NFC Products, partnerships and services announced.