RFID device provider UPM Raflatac and Finnish apparel company NP Collection are the recipients of the 2009 Golden Tag awards, presented by trade association RFID Nordic and Swedish trade publication Packmarknaden. The awards, which denote a particularly effective deployment of RFID technology to improve logistics and trade, are in recognition of NP Collection’s successful 2008 […]

A new study released by industry market research firm ABI Research ranks Xterprise as the top software company in the RFID application marketplace. The study, called the RFID Line of Business Application Software Vendor Matrix, focused on evaluating a small group of leading, highly-specialized vendors offering software solutions targeting a range of applications for asset […]

Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin sat down with Patrick Hearn, vice president of government and identification markets for North and Central America at Oberthur Technologies, to find out the latest GICS, or the Generic ID Card Command Set. GICS is a data scheme that takes different smart card program standards, such as registered traveler, corporate […]

The European Education Connectivity Solution (EECS) project commenced on June 1 and was officially launched at the Annual European Campus Card Conference held in Stansted, London. The overall cost of this project is $2.1 million, which came from the European Union and other contributors. The idea behind the student ID is to set up a […]

Students at Bishop Guertin High School in Nashua, N.H. are using their student IDs to make purchases in the school’s cafeteria. The high school deployed a system from ITC Systems, Toronto. The private school’s new MultiPlan on-line system means student photo ID cards can be linked to accounts and used to buy food in the […]

Bell ID, a provider of smart card management systems, announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with PandaID Soluciones. The two companies will bring Bell ID’s ANDiS Smart Card Management Solution to the EMV banking, government and corporate ID markets in Venezuela and Colombia. PandaID Soluciones, a privately held company with offices in […]

Lockheed Martin subsidiary Savi Technology has announced the availability of its GlobalTag asset and shipment monitoring device. The hybrid ST-694 GlobalTag is the first monitoring device to combine active RFID, GPS, and satellite communications technology, offering users nearly continuous monitoring and precise location information of supply chain assets, including areas lacking a land-based reader infrastructure. […]