By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor The Chinese say it’s The Year of The Dog, but in the market for the best Gen 2 RFID products, it’s also the year for a doggone number of new choices. Numerous vendors are hyping their latest RFID chips, readers, tags, printers and software, leaving buyers with an apparent wealth […]

By Marcus Smith, Contributing Editor, RFIDOperations (This article originally ran in 2005 issue of RFIDOperations) CHILLICOTHE, Ohio—At the minimum security Ross Correctional Facility in Chillicothe, Ohio, prisoners are fitted with active UHF wristbands so they can not only tell guards where they are at any given moment, but where they have been. TSI PRISM division […]

(This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations) By Gene J. Koprowski, RFIDOperations Faced with the prospect of millions of silicon-based RFID tags dumped in landfills, researchers are trying to create an environmentally-friendly tag. NCR Corp. researchers are now producing passive RFID tags inlaid on a roll of paper. They are experimenting with […]

Golf balls, race cars, runners, pigeons all tagged in the name of the game By David C. Wyld, Contributing Editor The wide world of sports is no doubt one of the sexiest applications for RFID on the horizon, and innovative companies across the globe are rushing into sports applications for the technology. We are seeing […]

Dates: June 8th and 9th, 2006 Venue: Hyatt Regency Paris – Charles de Gaulle Location: Paris URL: www.electronic-passport.com Contact: [email protected], [email protected] Description: Following the outstanding success of the 2005 event in Berlin, the Electronic Passport Forum will once again open its doors this spring, on June 8-9, in Paris. The Electronic Passport Forum welcomes the […]

Meet the man who will decide if you are Gen 2 compliant (This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations) WHETHER YOU ARE selling or buying Gen 2 products, the readers and tags under development are about to be put to the test. RFID Operations decided to speak to the man in charge […]

By Rhea Wessel, Contributing Editor, RFIDOperations This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations. A pen that was first used on Apollo 7 in 1969 and made famous again 3 decades later on the Seinfeld sitcom because it could write upside down, is now able to do much more. Fisher Space Pen of […]

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations. INDIANAPOLIS—The arrival of spring brings warmer weather and, in many states, the beginning of another season for amusement parks and carnivals. Until now, the latter has also meant a roller coaster of paperwork for state safety inspectors. Nationally, about 3,000 […]

(This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations) By Rhea Wessel, Contributing Editor, RFIDOperations COLOGNE, Germany—The world’s most popular sporting event will be RFID-enabled. The 2006 World Cup soccer tournament will feature RFID-based electronic admission tickets at the games’ 12 German venues. World Cup organizers announced last year that they wanted to install […]

Tackling a 600 fpm conveyor at 10 feet per second, you better have a plan The situation: Armed with one RFID reader and four antennas, we had to figure out how to get a 100% read rate on tagged items as they moved along a conveyor. At first it seemed that the typical ‘box’ design […]