Alien Technology has announced that its UHF RFID EPC Gen 2 inlays received the distinction of “Top Ranking” performance from the 2009 European EPC Competence Center (EECC), marking the third consecutive year Alien’s inlays have topped their competitors. EECC is an independent organization based in Nuess, Germany that annually publishes UHF Tag Performance Surveys to […]

Coca-Cola has released its new RFID-enabled Freestyle fountain drink dispenser for beta testing in Atlanta and Southern California area restaurants. The Freestyle uses Impinj’s RFID technology to offer over 100 different beverage varieties in the same amount of space as a standard eight-valve machine. The secret is in the concentrated flavor cartridges that dispense a […]

DAILY RFID has announced the release of its DL910 UHF RFID reader with a read range of up to 15 meters. The DL910 is capable of reading assets traveling at speeds of up to 100 km/h, making it suitable for rapid flow asset tracking and vehicle access control. The reader is EPC Gen 2 compliant […]

ERT Systems LLC, a small Ann Arbor based company, has developed a new way to track firefighters while they’re on the scene. Firehouses that use OnSite ERT (Emergency Resource Tracking) outfit each one of their firefighters with a plastic ID card embedded with an active RFID tag. When called to a scene, first responders place […]

According to a report on healthcommentary.org, a future preventative approach to health-care dubbed “home-centered health care” will involve the use of RFID technology to monitor patients from their homes. The report argues that the current health-care system, which is based on intervention rather than prevention, cannot possibly be maintained with the population aging as rapidly […]

In response to the growing use of RFID in a variety of new industries, faculty and researchers at the UCLA-WINMEC RFID Lab will host a hands on RFID workshop on October 20, 2009. The workshop is meant to help companies interested in using RFID better understand the technology and its applications. Workshop participants will attend […]

DAILY RFID has announced the release of its Mini 13.56MHz USB RFID reader for the office environment. The pocket-sized reader uses a USB data connection to sync up with laptops and PC’s to both read and write RFID tags. It is compatible with a variety of operating systems including Microsoft Pocket PC 2002/2003, Microsoft Windows […]

d’Vineripe, an Australian tomato growing company, has enlisted FieldAtWork to provide an RFID solution for monitoring employee task completion times in order to improve productivity. Under FieldAtWork’s system employees are given HF RFID tags with their own unique ID number, allowing d’Vineripe to identify each individual employee. Next to each row of tomatoes FieldAtWork has […]

The U.S. Air Force has approved usage of Savi Technology’s RFID asset tracking and security devices aboard all sizes and classifications of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft that transport supplies for the U.S. Department of Defense. Savi, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has been supplying the Air Force with RFID tags for some time but the […]

Impinj has announced the release of its Speedway Revolution RFID reader, the newest in its Speedway line that features Iminj’s Autopilot technology. According to a press release by Impinj, RFID system performance depends upon a number of ever-changing environmental conditions, such as RF interference levels, tag density in the reader field and ambient RF noise, […]