Syscan International Inc., a provider of RFID-enabled supply chain solutions, has announced a move toward bankruptcy protection in the Canadian courts. Officially, the company has has resolved to make assignment pursuant to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act to a Trustee to handle matters with its creditors. The move comes after Syscan was notified that Swiss […]

Finnish RFID provider UPM Raflatac continues to make waves with its RFID tags, this time in its home waters. The company supplied the tags used in a vehicle identification solution pilot program for the Finnish Road Authority, meant to streamline traffic on a car ferry system. The ferry system carries vehicles to and from Hailuoto […]

Fluensee, a provider of RFID-enabled asset management software, has teamed up with PC Guardian, a maker of IT asset security management hardware. The two companies will cooperate to launch a set of RFID-enabled IT asset management security solutions in early 2009. Under the partnership, PC Guardian will incoroporate Fluensee’s RFID software solutions into its hardware […]

Zetes, a Belgian-based provider of automatic identification solutions including RFID-enabled systems, has announced the recent successful implementation of a supply chain traceability soltion for Campofrio, one of Spain’s leading producers of processed meats. Zetes’s Spanish subsidiary partnered with ImageID to create the solution, which tracks pallets and packaging throughout a Campofrio processing plant and as […]

Microsoft will unveil two RFID-oriented software packs for its BizTalk enterprise connectivity software suite. The RFID enhancements are part of Monday’s first public beta release of BizTalk Server 2009, which takes advantage of virtualization and enhanced failover clustering featured in Windows Server 2008. The new RFID offerings include BizTalk RFID Mobile, which extends BizTalk RFID […]

A system based on RFID devices from Sirit Inc. has been selected to upgrade operations on Uruguay’s only automated tollway. The automatic vehicle identification (AVI) system is a cooperative effort by Uruguay-based Telsis S.A. and Telectronica, a company which has deployed AVI systems throughout Latin America. The system, which will use Sirit IDentity 5100 readers […]

Taking inspiration from marathon organizers in major cities like London and New York, an organization in charge of hiring workers for the railroads of southern India will use RFID technology to time physical fitness tests of potential recruits. The Railway Recruitment Cell of the Southern Railway in India has received permission from the country’s Ministry […]

In an effort to reduce its return rate of unsold books, Japanese publishing house Shogakukan Inc. has introduced a two-tiered distribution system for retailers. The publisher has deployed RFID technology to keep the potentially complex system accurate. Unsold books returning from bookstores is an unwanted reality of the publishing business, especially since many of the […]

An RFID-enabled retail display created for a London store by Lime-IT, a UK information technology firm, has shown early signs of success. Within the first two days that the display was active, 800 customer interactions were recorded. The display, installed in the House of Fraser store on Oxford Street in London, features a line of […]

German RFID inlay maker TagStar Systems GmbH has introduced a new line of inlays featuring the Texas Instruments transponder Tag-it chips. The new TI-enhanced inlays are available in two memory sizes, using both the Tag-it HF-I Standard/Pro with 256 bits memory and, for more advanced RFID applications, the TI Tag-it HF-I Plus chips with 2048 […]