Galleries are tagging collections to improve inventory control, security, and the total customer experience By Ryan Kline, Contributing Editor After leaving a museum, you may think you are an expert on everything from painting to sculpture, but there are a lot of artifacts that you passed right by. It wasn’t that you went too fast […]

Question: Why has Impinj targeted the pharmaceutical market? Answer: The pharmaceutical industry represents a significant opportunity for UHF Gen 2 RFID,” said Dimitri Desmons in a report on pharmaceutical tracking and RFID. Read more on Desmon’s insights by downloading a report here.   

Tyco Electronics and KeyTone Technologies this morning announced a “strategic alliance” aimed at providing comprehensive solutions to companies who need to meet the Department of Defense’s mandate on the use of RFID electronic product codes (ePC) on all products. Tyco Electronics is known for its RFID labels, high-memory tags, readers, and antennas. KeyTone Technologies makesenterprise-level […]

UHF tag chip and reader supplier Impinj, Inc. recently announced an agreement with Yeon Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of the YFY Group providing value-added RFID services, to resell Impinj’s high-performance, Speedway UHF Gen 2 RFID reader in Taiwan. The member of Impinj’s value-added reseller (VAR) program, Yeon Technologies deploys RFID products that incorporate the […]

The new enterprise mobility business from Motorola, Inc. (which used to be Symbol, back in the day) and Avery Dennison Corporation announced a so-called “strategic relationship.” Avery Dennison RFID will supply its EPCglobal Gen 2 RFID tags (and with those tags, its inlay manufacturing capabilities) to Motorola, increasing the speed of RFID deployments and availability […]

Bentonville, Ark., mass market giant Wal-Mart Wal-Mart Stores said it will continue to expand its RFID capability to additional facilities – 400 Wal-Mart stores, to be exact, Wal-Mart Executive Vice President and CIO Rollin Ford said in a speech Monday at the RFID Journal Live conference in Orlando, Fla. “Through RFID technology, Wal-Mart is providing […]

TR3’s RFID is helping beverage maker Ocean Spray better underatnad the root causes of service and sales slumps. The company released its new “Zero Sales Prevention” module at the RFID Journal Live conference in Orlando this week. “The new Zero Sales Prevention module will save us a tremendous amount of time and make our sales […]

“RFID tags, commonly referred to as smart tags, have the ability to improve logistics, profoundly change cost structures for business, and improve the current levels of safety and authenticity of the international pharmaceutical supply chain and many other industries,” says Robert C. Crestani, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology, upon the news of NIST’s new […]

epcSolutions, Inc. this morning announced what it calls “the first application leveraging Zebra’s RFID Gen2 card printer.” The new printer from Zebra Technologies allows RFID-enabled plastic ID cards to be simultaneously printed and encoded. The encoded ID cards can be used for a wide range of identification purposes such as driver’s licenses, student ID cards, […]

RFID solution provider Orizin Technologies has announced the launch of RFID inventory system, Jtrack, for jewelry manufacturers. Details are just beginning to emerge. A complete tray load of jewelry and RFID tags can be inserted into Orizin’s Jtrack and data can be captured from all of them at once, Orizin said in a statement.