2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: RFID Green Award—The Greening of Mission Foods
RFID made it economically feasible for the tortilla manufacturer to switch from disposable corrugated boxes to reusable plastic containers.
2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Best Use of RFID to Enhance a Product or Service—RFID Delivers a Royal Payback
Royal Caribbean is installing self-service soft drink machines on its entire fleet of 22 cruise ships, keeping guests happy and generating explosive profits.
2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Best New RFID Product—Reducing Food Spoilage and Waste
Intelleflex’s battery-assisted passive sensor tags and readers make tracking perishable goods easier and more cost-effective.
2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Best RFID Implementation—Gerry Weber’s Pain-Free RFID Revolution
The clothing designer and retailer tracks garments from manufacturing sites to warehouses and retail stores, to improve inventory management and deter theft.
2011 RFID Journal Awards: Excellence in RFID
Presenting this year’s winners.
2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Special Achievement—Setting the RFID Standard
Chris Diorio brought together people and technologies to create the global ultrahigh-frequency specification.
2011 RFID Journal Award Winner: Most Innovative Use of RFID—Tracking and Monitoring the Deadliest Cache
Argonne National Laboratory has developed a strategy that uses RFID to safeguard nuclear materials.
GS 1 Mexico Opens Knowledge Center
RFID Journal had an opportunity to tour the new facility, which provides Mexican companies with a resource for learning how to use GS1 standards.
How Can We Connect RFID With Facebook?
What would be required for my company to accomplish this goal? —Name withheld ——— In order to connect to Facebook, you would first need to develop an interface that would tie a person’s login information with his or her ID. For example, let’s say I were to...
Energy-Harvesting Sensors to Monitor Health of Jet Engines
The wireless sensors will be utilized to monitor engine bearings on F-35 Joint Strike Fighters while in flight, using their turbines’ heat to power RFID transmissions.