Alcatel-Lucent announced a competition led by its Touchatag venture where software developers compete to create an innovative NFC urban game for mobile phones. Competition winners will receive a total of more than $7,200 in cash prizes. Called the “Vienna Jungle Scrum,” the competition is one component of mobilkom austria’s A1 InnovationDays 2009, taking place on […]

Motorola has released a new RFID reader designed specifically for installation on warehouse vehicles such as forklifts, trucks and mobile carts. The RD5000 is composed of multiple components, including RFID reader, motion sensor, battery pack, Bluetooth, wireless LAN and antennae, all contained in a single, wireless compact unit. Once installed on a vehicle, the RD5000 […]

Skytron and Awarepoint announced the deployment of an RFID-enabled Real-time Location System (RTLS) at Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits, Calif. The hospital already uses Skytron’s Asset Manager solution, powered by Awarepoint, to track mobile patient care assets including beds, infusion pumps, suction and aspiration devices, electronic thermometers, telemetry and vital signs monitors. These […]

FileTrail has announced that the General Service Administration has awarded FileTrail a five-year contract for its RFID File Tracking Systems. The GSA is an independent agency of the U.S. government, charged with supplying products and communications for U.S. government offices, among other management tasks. According to Darrell Mervau, vice p;resident of business development, government agencies […]

Seattle-based UHF Gen 2 RFID provider Impinj and Japanese global trading company Sumikin Bussan announced that Sumikin Bussan will sell the Impinj Speedway family of RFID reader and antenna products throughout Japan. Dick Yamauchi, general manager of the Supply Chain Management & Project Development Department for Sumikin Bussan, expects that the partnership will help accelerate […]

Sustainable options are still a ways off By Ed McKinley, Contributing Editor, Avisian Publications Polyvinyl chloride–or PVC for short–dominates the nation’s plastic-card market despite efforts to find more ecologically friendly materials. Cards made of 100% PVC account for perhaps 90% of all the plastic cards made in North America, according to card-industry executives. Most of […]

Plasco ID announced that it has agreed to a district-wide contract with the Houston Independent School District for the PlascoTrac Student Tracking System. By the end of 2009, the district expects 50 schools to be fully operational with the PlascoTrac System. Plans to implement the system at the remaining approximately 250 HISD schools are also […]