Tennessee Hospital Tracks High-Value Items
WaveMark’s cabinets enable Memorial Hospital, in Chattanooga, to track thousands of implantable and surgical devices, and to ensure patients are properly billed for those items.
BMW Finds the Right Tool
At its Regensburg assembly plant, the automaker is using RFID to identify cars and control the tools used to assemble them.
RFID Journal Introduces Virtual Events
The online seminars will provide a more robust program than traditional webinars, with end-user speakers and technology providers participating in each event.
Wireless RFID Reader Eliminates Need for Ethernet
Invengo’s XCRF-860E fixed RFID reader supports Wi-Fi, GPRS and Bluetooth wireless communications, allowing users to install it in areas without access to an Ethernet connection.
Can GPS Satellites Detect RFID Tags?
Is it possible for GPS satellites to detect radio frequency identification tags, or are such tags useable only in a localized setting, with interrogators and collectors utilizing radio frequencies or WI-FI? —Name withheld ——— There are certain RFID tags that can be...
Metal Finishing Co. Makes Monitoring Work-in-Progress More Efficient
Thanks to the newly RFID-enabled Lexmark T654 laser printer, the Wichita-based company expects to further streamline the way in which it tracks the items it tempers, plates, paints or peens.
Omni-ID to Open Production Plant in China
Growing demand for the company’s passive EPC Gen 2 RFID tags has led Omni-ID to establish a manufacturing subsidiary in Qingdao, in order to keep up with orders.
Putting Some Science Behind RFID
Rather than asking end users to believe the technology will deliver value, the RFID industry needs to provide data enabling them to quantify the benefits.
Riding Herd: RFID Tracks Livestock
From the United States to Europe, Australia and New Zealand, governments are encouraging—some even mandating—the use of RFID to track livestock, so animals can be identified quickly in the event of a food recall or disease outbreak. But even without mandates, some farmers are adopting the technology because it delivers internal business benefits.
A Consumer Approach to RFID
Moving from pieces and parts systems to packaged solutions can help end users achieve a faster ROI—and accelerate RFID adoption.