The French maker of prosthetic implants, as well as the hospitals it serves, has been using its Beep N Track system to track product shipment and usage. The company is now marketing the system to other medical device manufacturers.
The cooperative is tracking ham from the slaughterhouse throughout its various preparation and curing steps.
A system developed by Friendly Technologies uses the privacy mode found in NXP’s Icode and Ucode chips to keep tags from being read by unauthorized parties.
NFC Forum collaborates on standards for mobile financial services; MyDealerLot integrates RTLS with repair order system; Brussels public transportation system adds NFC-enabled fare cards; Elatec releases 128-bit encryption upgrade for its RFID readers; Swisscom to provide systems integration services for Mojix’s RFID system; Academia RFID offers training courses on data-capture software and EPCIS.
Investment to develop RFID tags to secure pharmaceuticals plus RTLS contract agreements by a major hospital supplier highlight this week’s RFID news, which also includes several NFC developments.
The tag maker’s head of RFID adoption explains how companies like shirt manufacturer Seidensticker are benefiting from RFID, and describes the technology’s past, present and future—as well as his own.
This video, taken at our recent RFID in Fashion event, demonstrates how much faster you can take inventory in an apparel retail store with RFID than with bar codes.
The United States Council for Automotive Research and the Savannah River National Laboratory aim to develop a new Wi-Fi-based sensing system for car factories and radioactive-material storage.