Siemens has expanded its Simatic Ident portfolio for industrial identification by adding the Simatic RF200 RFID system. This new system comprises three compact readers, all with IP67 protection: Simatic RF210R, RF220R and RF260R. The readers of the Simatic RF200 system are suitable for assembly and handling systems, or for small assembly lines for the identification […]

Xerafy has announced the availability of the new and enhanced version of their X Series RFID-on-metal tags. While maintaining similar attributes of the original X Series tags, the X II now comes with an ingress protection rating of IP68 and enhanced read-range performance. The PicoX II and NanoX II come with robust a encasement that […]

Trimble has introduced the ThingMagic Mercury6, 4-port, multiprotocol RFID reader as the latest addition to its RFID product family. The Mercury6 offers a low-profile form factor and rugged service operating capabilities, which make it well suited for enterprise, commercial and industrial environments. Based on the ThingMagic M6e embedded RFID reader module, the Mercury6 operates with […]

Researchers from the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft will be exhibiting a surgical instrument with an integrated electronic chip at this year’s MEDTEC Europe trade show in Stuttgart. The Bremen-based scientists will be presenting the technique that is laser melting, which enables the manufacture of surgical instruments of any shape, even those with complex interiors like channels, or those […]

TJS, a provider of RFID tracking software for jewelry, has debuted the ZeroShrink Classic Edition. The ZeroShrink RFID tracking software comes delivered on the TJS InSite Inventory Tracking Appliance, and integrates with popular POS applications, including those offered by BCI, DCIT, InCom, QuickBooks and SWIM. The product enables scanning hundreds of items in seconds and […]

Hosted by the RFID and Healthcare Consortium at the HIMSS11 annual meeting, a hospital smart room was featured leveraging the power of RFID technology to optimize medical device connectivity and deliver improvements in patient safety, reports Cardiovascular Business. The smart room centers on a design to improve distribution of patient information by integrating real-time data […]

In the new report “RFID for the Postal and Courier Service”, IDTechEx estimates that the global market for RFID systems, including tags, will reach $2.5 billion in 2018. The report goes in-depth, covering more than 40 cases studies of RFID in action at postal and courier services in North America, Europe, the Middle East and […]

European RFID supplier Vilant Systems Oy and Switzerland’s Swisscom Auto-ID Services AG have agreed to merge their RFID activities. As part of the deal, Swisscom will sell its stake in Swisscom Auto-ID Services AG to Vilant Systems Oy, following which Swisscom will own a minority stake in Vilant Systems Oy. The Swiss company will operate […]