VHA Moves Toward RTLS Rollout
The department that manages health care for U.S. veterans is doing a good job of planning a nationwide rollout to more than 150 medical centers.
RFID Executive Education for Business Professionals
The University of Arkansas has launched a comprehensive four-day program focused on the business value of RFID technology for retailers and their suppliers.
Checkpoint Systems Offers RFID Security for Retail Stores
The company’s RFID Overhead EAS Solution includes a reader that mounts on a ceiling above an exit, as well as software to send alerts and link read data to a store’s back-end inventory records.
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ZigBee System Makes Parking Smarter in Spain
Libelium has released a smart parking solution enabling cities to use Waspmotes to detect the presence of cars in parking spaces, and to transmit that status to a server that both commuters and the city can access.
RFID News Roundup
Australia’s Dandenong Hospital selects Wi-Fi RTLS from Ekahau for emergency department; STL Technologies partners with Impinj on RTLS for criminal-justice sector; RFID Consortium announces new member, extension of royalty discounts; Identive Group Announces NFC product, production capacity increase; Cleveland VA chooses ClearCount’s SmartSponge System to enhance safety in OR.
Study Finds Hotel Guests Want to Use NFC Phones to Unlock Doors
A pilot that allowed guests to utilize mobile phones with Near Field Communication technology to check in and out of hotel rooms, thereby replacing room keys, was a hit.
Could a Smartphone Read a UHF RFID Tag?
Do smartphones have the ability to read such a tag if an application were designed to supply content based on a tag’s ID number? —Warm Regards, Carl ——— Sorry, Carl, that’s currently impossible, as there are no smartphones that contain an...New Report on RFID Intellectual Property
Innography, a company that offers an online intellectual-property business-intelligence application, has produced a report on radio frequency identification IP.