The NFC Forum, a Wakefield, Mass.-based non-profit advocating the use of near field communication technology, announced the winners of its Touching the Future: NFC Forum Global Competition. In the competition, developers in a commercial track vied for the honor of having their solutions named “The Best NFC Service of the Year 2008,” while a Research […]

Thin Battery Technologies has introduced two disposable battery products for RFID tags and other products. The carbon-zinc batteries can be used in both passive and active RFID applications. The 1.5V TBT UT Series delivers about 12 mAh of energy to tags and can be made as little as 0.02 inches thick. It is intended for […]

Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) has deployed a RFID tracking system throughout its pork processing plant, allowing it to track its product from a whole hog’s arrival at the slaughterhouse to packaged pork landing on the store shelf. Newly arrived hogs are placed on hang rails carrying RFID tags. These tags record the hog’s origin, […]

Three additional Mexican states have chosen Gemalto to supply them with electronic driver licenses. The contract is in cooperation with Cosmocolor, a system integrator in Latin America, who specializes in digital identity solutions. The company partnered with Gemalto previously to implement the first Mexican electronic driving license in the Nuevo León State in January 2007.Comocolor […]

CoreStreet announced that its PIVMAN product can now provide electronic authentication and validation of Common Access Cards for securing physical access to U.S. Department of Defense facilities worldwide. The CoreStreet PIVMAN Solution encompasses software for handhelds and PCs, and is leveraged for both mobile and fixed authentication stations, as well as including a management station. […]

The Mulenhof museum in Munich, Germany now features an interactive multimedia exhibit based on RFID technology, thanks to a partnership between the Münster School of Business Administration and Economics and electronics producer Elatec. Using RFID tags and readers donated by Elatec, students from the school created a “Mobile Visitor Information System” (MoVIS) for the open-air […]

Wal-Mart’s five-year-old mandate for all its suppliers to adopt RFID technology has not been an overwhelming success. Just a small percentage of the mega-retailer’s 60,000 suppliers are tagging their crates and pallets as requested; on the receiving end, just over a third of Wal-Mart’s approximately 3,600 stores have implemented the technology. The plan’s failures can […]

Arizona-based Alanco Technologies, Inc., has been selected by the Missouri Department of Corrections to supply RFID tracking systems for five probation and parole early release facilities. The contract follows an order in 2006 for two similar systems. Alanco’s TSI PRISM RFID officer safety and inmate tracking system is designed to assist in managing inmate movement, […]

Earlier this week, Supply Chain Digest offered an in-depth look at aerospace giant Airbus’s massive RFID project, the largest of its sort ever attempted. Today, they offer an illustrated version. Click here for a graphic of the project.   

In racing, photo finishes don’t come cheap: high speed cameras can cost upwards of $25,000, making them impractical for all but the highest levels of most motor sports. RFID tags can cost just a few dollars per competitor – some marathon officials are already using them to time their runners – but they are hard […]