News & Updates
RFID News Steel Products Maker Sees ROI in Six Months
Viraj Profiles, an Indian manufacturer of stainless steel products, is using EPC Gen 2 RFID tags to improve inventory visibility and shipment accuracy.
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RFID Tracks the Shipment of Entire Gold-Processing Plant
The plant was disassembled in Australia, and its components were shipped to Argentina, where it was then reassembled—all with the help of active tags and readers.
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Citibank Says RFID Pilot Proves Strong Consumer Interest in Mobile-Phone Payments
The company, which has completed a Near Field Communication project in India, finds that NFC-based retail applications can be successful—with the proper mix of marketing, incentives and execution.
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Swiss Study Finds RFID Tags Safe for MRI, CT Scans
Researchers at St. Gallen Canton Hospital say that wristbands with 13.56 MHz passive RFID tags do not significantly interfere with the functionality of imaging devices, or pose a risk to scanned patients wearing such wristbands.
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Grady Hospital Improves Surgical Dept. Efficiency
A real-time location system combining CenTrak hardware and PeriOptimum software has raised the utilization rate of the facility's 16 operating rooms by 23 percent.
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RFID News Roundup
LabID introduces two new UHF RFID inlays; AeroScout, Extension team up on health-care RTLS-VoIP solution; Aviant Systems builds cellular RFID solution for RecycleBank; CenTrak announces new Hand Hygiene Compliance System; UPM Raflatac, Hansaprint unveil NFC label for metal, upgrade portal service; Nokia cancels SWP NFC phone, China Unicom moves ahead with SWP NFC payment initiative.
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RFID Helps Yard Operators Find Crashed Cars
The DogBone system, developed by the owner of a salvage yard, enables companies to locate vehicles in large lots, by affixing EPC Gen 2 passive tags to car windshields.
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Tagged Tablets Memorialize the Deceased
The RosettaStone, containing a passive 13.56 MHz RFID tag, is designed to be either taken home as a keepsake or installed on a gravestone, to provide information regarding a departed loved one.
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RFID News Roundup
Alien, Awarepoint each scores $10 million in funding; NXP launches new ICode chip, ships one billionth ICode; Verayo unveils next-generation unclonable RFID chip; Noxel intros UHF reader with Bluetooth connectivity; Emerson's new wireless liquid-level sensor; Feig Electronic offers new fast Ethernet-enabled RFID terminal.
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Wristbands Document Interactions Between Prisoners and Officers
Hardin County Jail has upgraded its RFID system with high-frequency 13.56 MHz RFID wristbands, to track every officer-inmate transaction in real time.
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RFID Illuminates Lithuanian Lamp Manufacturer
Artilux NMF is one of the first companies in the nation to track finished products and raw materials throughout warehouse and production areas.
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KissAFrog Leaps into RFID
The online seller of luxury fashions and accessories hopes that tagging its merchandise will lead to improved inventory visibility—and make certain the goods its customers purchase are in stock.
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Radioactive Waste Cleanup Project Becomes More Efficient, Greener
Bechtel Jacobs is now attaching EPC Gen 2 RFID tags to all trucks hauling hazardous waste for disposal at the East Tennessee Technology Park.
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San Joaquin Hospital Boosts Asset Utilization
By using a ZigBee-based RFID system to track equipment, the California hospital expects to save more than $158,000 annually through increased through labor-savings alone.
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RFID Journal LIVE! 2010 Announces Speakers for Oil, Gas Seminar
Offered in partnership with the Oil & Gas RFID Solution Group, the daylong series of sessions will explain how companies in the energy sector can benefit from radio frequency identification.
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Italian Construction Firm Deploys RFID to Track Offshore Equipment
Saipem attaches Omni-ID EPC Gen 2 passive tags to cranes, drilling rigs and thousands of other items, to improve safety and reduce wastage and delays.
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Impinj Launches New High-Performance RFID Chips
The new family of Monza 4 tag chips boasts greater read range, orientation insensitivity, more memory and innovative privacy features.
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