Taking it step-by-step means small upfront cost at St. Louis facility By Victoria Forlini Dipping RFID tags in liquid nitrogen may not be standard operating procedure for most projects, but Boeing IDS believes a sub-zero experiment may help reduce spoilage and track containers in their plant here. Supply chain manager Steve Georgevitch and his team […]

The following is an excerpt of RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy. This chapter is written by EPC pioneer Sanjay Sarma1. Although the concept of radio frequency identification (RFID) is not new, the term RFID has been in use for only a couple of decades.2 In the 1980s and 1990s, long after the early use of […]

On Track Innovations announced that its Saturn 5000 contactless reader has received certification from Visa USA to support its contactless payment program. The Saturn 5000 has already received certification by major US financial institutions. Visa along with MasterCard and American Express have already announced that they are in different stages of implementation for contactless payment […]

In November 2005, Ingenico will unveil its new mobile solutions terminals (i7800, i7910, i8550, i8900) – via which payments may be made anytime, anywhere – some of which manage business-specific applications when coupled, for example, with Windows CE/UNICAPT 32. These new terminals are clear proof of Ingenico’s growing commitment to new communications technologies, such as […]

VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (Nasdaq: ADSX – News), a leading provider of security and identification technology, announced today that its “Hugs” RFID infant protection system has prevented the abduction of a baby at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. On July 15, the Hugs system went into alarm when the infant was […]

In light of a pending lawsuit and stalled legislative relief, Auburn University decided to cancel its off-campus card program until the situation is resolved. Its sister university to the west – the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa – is holding firm still allowing students to use their campus cards at off-campus merchants. The lawsuit is […]

Getting secure IDs out the door is the easy part. But, are they truly secure? Is it imaged correctly? Is the hologram properly positioned? Does the name and Social Security number match the database from which it was pulled? All this and more is what Spartanics, Rolling Meadows, Illinois, attempts to verify before the ID […]