This article highlights RFID news and developments from the past week. RTLS and near field communication (NFC) technologies provided most of the innovation in this week’s news, which also includes reports of tracking cardiac devices and Manchurian tigers, plus changes at several industry vendors.
A Tetherball system allows the restaurant’s customers to receive text-message coupons and use a passive high-frequency tag to redeem them.
The NFC Forum yesterday introduced the N-Mark logo that was created to give consumers an easy visual reference to where NFC services are available. The logo was unveiled the same day a competing NFC initiative was announced.
The project adds the University of California to a growing list of hospitals and schools turning to RFID technology to track human bodies, tissues or specimens.
AIM Global, MET Labs and Georgia Tech will develop testing protocols for detecting electromagnetic interference caused by RFID transmissions, and for determining the effects of such interference on medical devices.
Researchers in Finland successfully tested an RFID system based on near field communication (NFC) for tracking mass casualties.
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