The New Belgium Brewing Company is adopting an RFID asset tracking solution by Fluensee to help track, manage and improve the utilization of its 150,000 kegs. New Belgium will implement Fluensee’s browser-based AssetTrack application and passive RFID technology to provide better visibility to its keg fleet, monitor fill-to-fill cycle time for each keg, track the […]

London Midland rail passengers will soon be enjoying a contactless Oyster card-style ticketing system which the rail service intends to roll out next year. London Midland operates train services through the heart of England from London in the south, to Birmingham in the midlands and Liverpool in the northwest. It services about 46 million passengers […]

Phishers are now after campus card information. At least one California institution, Fresno State, has reported that some student email accounts have come under attack, according to the school’s newspaper, The Collegian. The fake email, purporting to be from the university, seeks a student’s Fresno State user ID and password. The university says it will […]

The U.S. Department of State has announced that it will tag 10,000 mission critical IT assets using ODIN’s RFID turn-key IT asset tracking solution. The DoS has chosen the UHF Gen 2 passive RFID tracking system to save money, increase security, and reduce administrative burden. According to ODIN, the State Department’s agency-wide adoption of RFID […]

DIYer Wei-Chieh Tseng has created a robotic plush tail a la Super Mario Bros. 3 that uses RFID-enabled emotion cards (3 to be exact: angry, happy and sad) to remotely prompt movement from the tail. As seen in a video recorded by Wei-Chieh Tseng, the “mood tail,” which he programmed himself using Arduino, can either […]

Norton Health Care opened the doors to its newest hospital at Brownsboro Crossing in Louisville, featuring a fully integrated RFID tracking system designed to remotely monitor a patient’s location and medical status, track and inventory equipment and report the temperature of medicines and blood samples in the hospital refrigerators. “This entire hospital was designed from […]

UPEK, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced the release of their Protector Software Suite 2009, a biometric security software suite that utilizes a fingerprint sensor for authentication and now supports the Windows 7 operating system. Further, in their designing the software as Windows 7 compliant, their software is now also compliant with any fingerprint […]