California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products based on the patented technology are printed silicon HF integrated circuits (PICs) with 128 bits of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio’s new product was announced […]

ClearCount Medical Solutions, producers of patient safety applications for operating rooms and other health care situations, has completed a round of Series A financing worth $4.1 million. The cash influx will allow ClearCount to expand sales and marketing efforts for its current product line, as well as funding further research and development. ClearCount’s flagship product […]

Advanced ID, a provider of RFID solutions in supply chain management and livestock and pet tracking, predicts its acquisition of a Chinese RFID producer will lead to previously unexpected revenues in the fourth quarter this year. Advanced ID recently acquired Shenzhen DDCT Technology Co. Ltd in China. The Chinese developer of RFID readers and modules […]

India-based Essen unveiled a new integrated RFID antenna-reader that brings along its own power supply, the Xtenna packs an antenna, reader and a power supply into one package. Essen touts the new device’s usefulness in isolated locations and over long distances, since it uses Power-over-Ethernet for transmission and converts sensitive analog RF signals to digital […]

Reacting to recent reports that RFID technology can cause potentially dangerous interference in medical settings, technology industry association AIM Global has announced a new initiative to create test protocols. The association hopes to create a format to help health care providers determine what effects various RFID devices could have on other equipment and establish a […]

As RFID tracking applications become increasingly used in data centers for security and inventory purposes, removable data storage firm Imation has introduced a new product that makes introducing the technology simpler. The company’s new Dataguard rf Tracking System offers storage tapes with embedded RFID tags and an integrated serial number management system. The tracking system […]

Passive UHF RFID provider Omni-ID has launched of series of service bureau offerings to simplify the deployment process for its customers. The new service options give both end users and systems integrators a range of commissioning service possibilities for all of Omni-ID’s RFID hard tag products, in hopes of providing customers with a deployable RFID […]

Scientists at GE Global Research, the GE’s technology development division, have developed a battery-free, multi-detection RFID sensing platform based on traditional RFID tags. The new device could enable a wide range of low cost wireless sensing products for a variety of industries, including health care, security, food packaging, water treatment and pollution prevention. The sensors […]

Mojix Inc., a recent RFID start-up headquartered in Los Angeles, has announced the expansion of its eNode family of EPC RFID transmitters. The company calls the transmitters the fundamental building blocks of the its STAR system, which the company launched in April of this year as a method to enhance the range of low-cost passive […]

Alien Technology has reached a partnership agreement with Chinese RFID manufacturer Arizon RFID Technology Co. Ltd., to produce Alien inlays for the Chinese market. Arizon has one of the world’s largest RFID manufacturing facilities and is well-positioned in the Chinese market, and Alien brings extensive experience in manufacturing mass volumes of inlays and wide name […]