Aalborg Airport Debuts Baggage-Handling System With High-Memory RFID Tags
All flight-related data is encoded to a bag tag’s EPC Gen 2 inlay, enabling the Danish airport to sort luggage without the need for a centralized database.
How Do RFID Readers Pinpoint Specific Tags?
In a situation in which multiple passive RFID tags are in close proximity to one another, how does a reader pick out just one tag from many? —Matthew (Reading, Mass.) ——— What you are referring to is known as singulation. Part of the air-interface protocol—the...
Mining New Value From RFID
Mining companies worldwide have been using RFID to track assets, vehicles and workers above and below ground. Now industry pioneers are adopting new applications to further streamline production and reduce costs, as well as improve safety.
It’s All About the Problem
How can vendors find—and address—the people for whom the status quo is unacceptable?
Focus of RFID Shifts
Companies are now looking at RFID as a technology that can solve internal problems, rather than as a way to share data across the supply chain.
Sidestepping Capital Costs
New solutions make RFID technology more manageable—and affordable—for apparel retailers.
Every DVD Tells a Story
It’s possible to track 2,000 discs on a pallet if you pay attention to the way they’re RFID-tagged, packed and stacked.
Innovation Is Stupid
Amazon, eBay and Google were all dumb ideas.
The Best Get Better
Introducing the winners of the 2010 RFID Journal Awards.
2010 RFID Journal Award: An RFID Visionary
Sanjay Sarma is the recipient of the first RFID Journal Special Achievement Award.