American Apparel RFID Project Featured in Video
Avery Dennison has produced a video explaining how radio frequency identification is being used to improve operations at American Apparel’s stores.
American Apparel RFID Project Featured in Video
Avery Dennison has produced a video explaining how radio frequency identification is being used to improve operations at American Apparel’s stores.
RFID News Roundup
Toshiba TEC’s RFID products get EPCglobal certification; TimeLox puts RFID security into Four Seasons Hotel; Florida county library system to tag 1.4 million items; RF Controls releases new smart antennas; ADT Security announces real-time inventory solutions; GuardRFID’s active RFID systems work with video; SkyBitz intros tank activity and tire-pressure sensors.
Forest-Monitoring Sensors Harvest Energy From Trees
The U.S. Forest Service is deploying a climate sensor network powered by energy harvested from living trees.
New York Medical Center Tracks OR Equipment for Trauma Care
The SUNY system’s University Hospital has deployed a Wi-Fi-based RFID solution to track the location of its emergency equipment, as well as the temperatures of drugs and tissue samples in 100 refrigerators, and expects an ROI within one year.
RFID Weekly News Roundup July 2, 2009
Industrial, warehouse and public sector deployments around the world, new passive UHF and active RFID products, enhanced RTLS capabilities from a leading wireless LAN vendor, and organizational developments highlight this week’s RFID news.
Can RFID Track Small Parts, Trigger Alarms and Prevent Tool-Tampering?
I have three questions: First, can radio frequency identification be used to track small parts, measuring 4.5 inches in length by 1 inch in width? Second, is it possible to connect a transceiver to an alarm system so that every time the reader receives a signal from a...The Globe and Mail—Misinforming Readers Once Again
A new article continues the newspaper’s standing practice of misinforming the public regarding RFID.
NFC Brings Visibility to British Home Care
U.K. home-care providers are testing an NFC system from mobile-phone service provider O2 that allows them to track and update a patient’s records using their own mobile phones and an NFC tag at a patient’s home.
New Component to Simplify RFID Tag Production
Murata announced a new RFID tag chip which it says enables simpler and lower cost tag production. The company’s new Gen2-standard MAGICSTRAP is available in sample quantities now and is scheduled for full production later this year.