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 […]

PowerID Ltd., an Israeli provider of battery-assisted passive (BAP) RFID technology, has released new versions of two of its popular BAP labels. The PowerG and PowerM labels are 56% and 62% smaller, respectively, than their previous incarnations, but have not suffered any performance loss in it the shrinking process. The two BAP labels were originally […]

Zebra Technologies, a Lincolnshire, Ill. provider of specialty printing and automatic identification solutions, has rolled out its latest model, the Zebra ZXP Series 8, a retransfer printer that includes options for smart card encoding and networking. The printer is designed for such applications as high-security ID cards, driver licenses, gift cards and financial cards. The […]

InSync Software Inc. has announced a new partnership with IBM. The two companies have formed an original equipment manufacturer agreement with IBM that will enable InSync to integrate IBM’s InfoSphere Traceability Server software as part of its food safety solutions. InSync’s software solutions are created for companies in the fresh and processed foods, meat and […]

Finnish RFID developer UPM Raflatc has partnered with Blue Spark Technologies, a supplier of thin, flexible printed battery solutions, to develop and market products and applications using emerging battery assisted passive (BAP) RFID technology. The development of BAP RFID gained momentum with the launch of a new EPC Gen2 battery assisted passive RFID chip from […]

Canada’s GAO RFID has launched an RFID tag designed specifically for use in tracking wooden pallets, one of the main transit platforms around the world. The passive Gen 2 tags offer several attributes which fit their intended application well, including cost-efficiency and a long read range in harsh conditions. The 865-928 MHz tag integrates the […]

Custom RFID inlay developer Rfidium RFID has announced a development agreement with Ramtron International Corp., a developer and supplier of nonvolatile ferroelectric random access memory (F-RAM) and integrated semiconductor products. Under the terms of the agreement, the two firms will collaborate on the design and testing of RFID inlays utilizing a new line of high-memory, […]

RFID device producer Daily RFID has launched a new RFID test solution. The UHF RFID Tester DL9600 can both act as a standard RFID reader and perform RFID Tag performance evaluation functions in the 860-960MHz UHF frequency range. The RFID tester can perform comprehensive protocol and parametric tests in accordance with international RFID standards, including […]

RFID tag and inlay provider UPM Raflatac has announced it has been invited to serve on the advisory board of the University of Arkansas RFID Research Center. The facility is notable for the research it has conducted on the use of RFID in inventory management, demonstrating RFID’s ability to automate and enhance inventory management processes […]

China’s Daily RFID has introduced a new UHF RFID-enabled document management solution. The system integrates RFID smart labels and multi-tag RFID readers to enable efficient tracking and management of documents. The new solution places adhesive UHF RFID labels on each document. The labels have a long-range readability of up to 5 to 6 meters and […]