Located in Dunedin, New Zealand, the Otago Museum has announced plans to install a RFID tracking system to monitor its estimated 2 million collection items at the museum, reports the Otago Daily Times. Artifacts would be equipped with RFID tags enabling them to be automatically tracked as they are transferred from one location to the […]

GAO RFID announced a new active RFID tag, which has an expandable memory of 8,000 bytes for storing user and process information. Designed for collecting real-time data for identification, tracking, tracing and localization, this ultra-high frequency active RFID tag, model 137004, operates at a frequency of 868MHz or 915MHz ISM Band. This RFID tag has […]

GAO announced two new antenna designs with the release of the circular polarized active RFID patch antenna, model 304004, and the ultra-high frequency guardwall antenna, model 32602. The polarized active RFID patch antenna operates at 433MHz and is compliant with the ETS 300 019 standard and is particularly suited for applications such as vehicle yard […]

Digital Angel announced that its Destron Fearing unit has signed a contract extension with Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health to provide syringe and RFID microchip systems and readers. A partner since 1994, Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health markets Destron Fearing companion pet products under the HomeAgain brand. The terms of the contract were not disclosed, except that the extended […]

DecisionPoint Systems announced a $3.15 million agreement to acquire CMAC, Inc., a logistics consulting and systems integration provider headquartered in Alpharetta, Ga. The transaction, which is scheduled to close before the end of 2010, is expected to be accretive to DecisionPoint’s 2011 earnings by $0.02 to $0.03 per share fully-diluted. The purchase price of $3.15 […]

Ascendent ID announced the release of its new RFID-based load tracking system designed to automate and secure previously labor intensive and error prone transactions. Trucks carrying product are equipped with long-range rewritable RFID tags and readers are installed at loading areas, as well as at truck scale or site exits. As the truck is loaded, […]

DB Schenker now uses RFID technology from Siemens to continuously monitor the temperature of its sensitive air freight, such as medicines. Siemens together with its partners developed the system that continuously monitors products with the help of RFID chips. The chips feature an integrated temperature sensor, which provides important data about the condition of a […]

Trimble announced that its embedded RFID readers are being used as part of an inventory management system deployed by Germany-based fashion and lifestyle company Gerry Weber. Trimble’s ThingMagic M5e and M5e-Compact RFID reader modules power several components of the system including handheld scanners used for inventory, point-of-sale devices and electronic article surveillance gate antennas. To […]