The RFID Consortium has selected the Sisvel Group, a global intellectual property management firm, to administer the consortium’s UHF RFID patent licensing program. The consortium, a group of RFID industry companies holding patents for technologies essential to to EPCglobal and ISO/IEC standards for UHF RFID, will look to Sisvel to manage a patent pool which […]

AeroScout Inc., a provider of asset visibility solutions for a variety of industries, has announced recent deployments of its systems at two health care institutions affiliated with Ivy League universities. Both the Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center have selected AeroScout to supply asset tracking applications for its facilities. At Yale-New Haven Hospital […]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police will soon be equipped with E-Seek 2D bar code and mag stripe readers that will enable Mounties to swipe the license to obtain the driver’s information rather then enter it manually. The 4,600 dual card readers are being supplied by Softchoice Corp., a Toronto-based technology solutions provider, and its subcontractor, […]

U Car Share owned by truck rental giant U-Haul is launching its alternative to vehicle ownership at another higher education institution, Regis College in Weston, Mass. U Car Share allows students, staff and faculty access to cars 24/7, eliminating the need to bring cars to campus. Starting in August, U Car Share vehicles, a Toyota […]

GlobalPlatform, the specification body for smart card infrastructure, has published a white paper to explain how its existing technology can add value to biometric match-on-card solutions from research and development cost-savings and improved time to market, to compliance with industry security requirements. “The GlobalPlatform Value Proposition for Biometric Match-on-Card Verification,” targets government officials, project managers […]

Earlier this year, Northrop Grumman was named as one of four contractors to work on the Department of Defense’s huge RFID III contract. The company is offering some insight into its role in the $429 million, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, which will be in effect for the next three years, with as many as seven […]

Ford Motor Company’s new concept car offers a glimpse at the auto company’s vision of the family car of the future. What does America’s least financially-troubled car maker envision the family of the near future requiring? RFID technology, among other things. The Transit Connect Family One concept has an RFID-enabled computer in the dashboard, enabling […]