RF Controls has built a new functionality into its overhead reader antennas to encode UHF RFID tags, or to change their EPC IDs, from up to 50 feet away.
Having purchased Alert Systems and its solution for detecting RFID-blocking foil shields, Checkpoint Systems intends to integrate the technology into its EAS offerings.
Automation is changing the way factories operate, and RFID enables automation for supply chain functions like inventory, vendor management and equipment tracking.
Japanese companies have been using AsReader's new product, now being released in North America and next in Europe, to read tags at 30-foot heights or under loaded pallets.
The company is growing its wireless energy solution to power BLE tags with new certification for use in Japan, and has teamed up with InnoTractor and Thinaer.
CPC Corp. has leveraged a hybrid system from EPC Solutions Taiwan that tracks the identity, location and weight of each metal drum in a warehouse without requiring network access.