Ubisense intros UWB tag module for third-party development; RFID tracks participants at “World’s Largest 5K Event”; Baptist Memorial Health Care installs RFID system to protect babies; RF Code extends trade-up program to include passive RFID tags, readers; Nivis announces new WirelessHART gateway solution.
Ekahau badges and call buttons enable employees at two Portuguese health-care facilities to quickly identify the location of an emergency.
The Swedish eTrace project used EPC Gen 2 RFID tags and EPCIS software to document the fishes’ provenance—which served to reassure consumers and thus boost sales.
A new steel-shrouded UHF EPC Gen 2 tag, developed by Technologies ROI, can be welded to metal pipes or tools for the oil and gas, construction or other heavy industrial sectors, and is built to sustain abuse.
New solutions make RFID technology more manageable—and affordable—for apparel retailers.
As radio frequency identification proliferates, the potential for abusing the technology will rise—but democratic capitalist societies have mechanisms to respond to and limit abuses.
Recent improvements in the technology have been substantial.