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.
RFID improved inventory accuracy by 27.2 percent and reduced the time required for inventory cycle counting by 96 percent in an item-level jeans tracking pilot project completed by Bloomingdale’s. Researchers said the results were consistent with other pilots and suggest similar benefits would be available to other retailers.
An article posted on The New American’s Web site makes grossly inaccurate assertions, because the reporter doesn’t understand the difference between RFID passports and PASS cards.
Making RFID technology easy to understand isn’t as easy as it might seem.
A report by a Louisville, Ky., TV station claimed a man had his credit card stolen with an RFID reader, but the incident appears to be a fabrication.
An article posted on The New American’s Web site makes grossly inaccurate assertions, because the reporter doesn’t understand the difference between RFID passports and PASS cards.
A collaborative program is helping doctors track and treat the incidence of pneumonia in their patients by scanning NFC-based RFID tags on infants’ bracelets.
At the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in Switzerland, museumgoers wore gloves containing active RFID tags and wireless biometric sensors, thereby recording biological and cognitive reactions to each piece of art.
With companies seeking to cut costs and wastes wherever they can, problems in the warehouse are getting more focus, and RFID can help.