The Hose Track Identification and Lifecycle Analysis System from AdvantaPure – just released last week – is supposedly full of advantages. The tracking system, developed for hose assemblies and is now used for other process components (e.g., bio-bags, pumps, filters, diaphragm valves, UV lamps, tanks, and vessels), uses RFID to track individual parts. In tracking, […]

Texas Instruments Incorporated just announced that it is applying “core capabilities” in contactless and power efficient microcontroller technologies along with advanced embedded memory for next-generation government identification (ID) products that deliver greater speed, performance, and productivity in issuance and use to customers. (How’s that for a tongue twister?!) Translation: Texas Instruments is a big player […]

Are there still Americans who haven’t heard about Wal-Mart’s efforts with RFID? Perhaps so. It certainly explains to some degree why prominent stores are working to enhance its visibility. Last week, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other members of EPCglobal’s Media and Entertainment Industry Interest Group announced they are conducting an item-level DVD-tagging pilot with EPC […]

Malaysia’s Immigration Department is to introduce RFID technology at the end of the year to detect false visa stickers and the duration of the visa in passports, according to reports from Bernama (a Malaysian news agency). The department’s director-general, Datuk Wahid Md Don, said detection would be made possible with a RFID reader or short […]

In upscale dining rooms, pork is hot stuff. So’s the case in Beijing, too, where we’re hearing reports that the largest pork trade platform pilot opened in Bali Bridge produce wholesale market. According to the officials and news reports, Beijing is, for the first time, using RFID technology as the basis of its electronic tally […]

Metro Group, a customer of RFID vets Checkpoint Systems, Impinj, and Reva Systems, yesterday announced its completion of “the world’s first” end-to-end point-of-sale RFID project using UHF Gen 2 standards-based systems, according to the company. The implementation for Metro’s high-end Galeria Kaufhof department store in Essen, Germany was the first to demonstrate RFID applications integrated […]

Secretary Michael Chertoff says the use of Pass cards, as part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, will be ready to go by next summer. But at least one industry expert tells Government Computer News this week that DHS running out of time to test and deploy a new technology solution in the proposed passport-alternative […]

Zebra Technologies Corporation, a Vernon Hills, Ill., company that provides on-demand printing solutions for business improvement, announced today that the company has begun shipments to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide RFID printer/encoders for the USAF Cargo Movement Operation System (CMOS) operating at more than 214 locations worldwide. The planned RFID initiative is expected […]

Worldwide, legislation is driving RFID rollouts for animal tagging, often subsidized by governments. Why? concerns over animal health, potential bio-terrorism, food safety, international trade, and improving supply chain management have made animal and meat traceability essential. With Asia Pacific having the highest livestock population globally, the RFID animal tagging market in the region is set […]

RF Code, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class active RFID technology, recently announced the addition of a new long-range mobile reader to its active RFID product suite. The new Bluetooth-enabled M220 reader was designed to bring automatic tracking and inventory capabilities to the mass markets of enterprise asset management. The M220 incorporates the desirable density and […]