Azcar Technologies, a technology integration company with offices throughout North America and the United Kingdom, has acquired the Canadian RFID consulting firm NJE Consulting Inc. A spokesperson for Azcar, which specializes in high definition digital media technology solutions for clients in a variety of industries, including broadcast companies, educational institutions, and sports and entertainment venues, […]

Chinese RFID tag maker Daily RFID has introduced a versatile new UHF RFID tag which the company plans to offer at a cost of less than 55 cents. The tag, which Daily RFID engineer David Chen refers to as the One-Off Using tag, was originally designed as part of a apparel management solution, but can […]

GAO RFID has launched a low frequency glass RFID tag. The Glass RFID Tag, also referred to as the GAO 111001, is intended for uses from laundry management to animal tracking, and is safely injectable when serving its tracking function. The tag’s housing is waterproof and dustproof, and is resistant to immersion in salt water, […]

The average person would most likely associate log cabin construction with pretty traditional technologies. Like, say, hand saws. Or, in really cutting edge circumstances, a carpenter’s square to get the angles right. But Finland-based Honkarakenne, maker of log houses uses more sophisticated technology than the one Abraham Lincoln was born in, has adopted an RFID […]

Retail behemoth Wal-Mart will require its Chinese suppliers to use RFID tagging to label shipments as of January 2009. Stricter requirements began to be introduced in October of this year, but by next year, the standards will effect all of Wal-Mart’s more than 1,000 Chinese suppliers. RFID tagging is expected to cost the suppliers roughly […]

Three of Asia’s economic power houses recently held meetings to discuss a possible RFID tagging system for the countries’ imports and exports. RFID experts from Japan, China and South Korea met in Seoul along with representatives of private organizations in the three nations. According to South Korea’s Ministry of Knowledge Economy, the trilateral meeting was […]

Omnitrol Networks has released an update of its flagship software platform, Edge Applications and Services Engine (EASE), along with a new middleware appliance. The new appliance, called the OMNITROL-A or the Nano, is billed as the industry’s smallest middleware appliance for RFID and sensor networks. Version 2.1 of EASE includes a new version of the […]

GAO RFID Inc. has introduced a series of RFID Position Markers. The two new devices, the GAO 491013 and GAO 491014, are used to determine exact locations of long-range, semi-passive RFID tags. In a typical deployment of a position marker, it is positioned near an RFID antenna. As a semi-passive tag passes the antenna’s induction […]

The latest forecast from market research firm ABI Research predicts the global market for RFID technology will reach $5.3 billion in 2008, with a continued rapid increase in value over the next five years. Excluding the area of automobile immobilization, ABI predicts that the RFID market will experience a 15% compound annual growth rate between […]

Advanced ID has announced a contract to supply RFID technology and integration services to Chinese homeland security specialist Shenzhen Xinyuantong Electronics. The deal, expected to be worth around $1.6 million, will provide Advanced ID’s proprietary technology for Shenzhen metal detectors. Shenzen is primarily a supplier of walk-through metal detectors, but the company offers 21 types […]