Toll Global Logistics Expects RFID to Provide Significant Savings
The company is using EPC tags and S3Edge software to automate the tracking of products at its Singapore facility.
RFID News Roundup
Conair, USA ID Orders Millions of RFID tags From Invengo; GuardRFID announces upgraded RFID middleware for active RTLS; ThingMagic intros new compact RFID UHF reader module; CommerceWorx unveils solution for integrating EDI and RFID; Precyse Technologies releases new bidirectional, long-range RTLS products; A.C.C. Systems’ two new handheld RFID readers.
RFID Journal’s 2010 Best in Show Award
Impinj’s Monza 4 chips edged out Tego’s high-memory tag and Omni-ID’s Ultra tag.
Rumors of Item-Level RFID’s Death in Pharma Are Exaggerated
An article by Dirk Rogers, co-chair of the GS1 EPCglobal Drug Pedigree Messaging work group, suggests RFID is dead at the item level in the pharmaceutical industry. Here’s why his death notice is premature.
Juniper Putting RFID to Work to Track Products, Assets
The networking-equipment manufacturer is using a mix of passive and active tags at sites around the world, to manage such items as test equipment, prototype circuit boards and servers.
Trident Health System Boosts Patient Throughput, Asset Utilization
An RFID-based solution from GE Healthcare and RF Code give the South Carolina hospital network a tool for locating equipment and identifying the availability of beds.
How Is Tag Read Range Measured?
Many vendors mention the read range of their passive tags in their product specifications. How is read range measured? Is it dependent on the frequency used, and the gain and radiated power of the reader antenna? —Name withheld ——— When RFID Journal writes about read...Wright University Researchers Test RFID and Ultrasound for 3-D RTLS
The project’s team is developing a hybrid real-time location system for identifying where a nursing home resident is within a room, and whether that person is standing, sitting or has fallen.
RFID Journal Announces Winners of Its 4th Annual Awards
Minera Norge, Almacafe, the Providence St. Joseph Medical Center’s Roy and Patricia Disney Family Cancer Center, Sanjay Sarma and Impinj were all honored at RFID Journal LIVE! 2010.
The Tragedy of the Commons
Why the RFID market needs a sense of community.