After four years of testing, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has approved the use of four watt RFID devices. The authorization opens the door to devices which operate in the 920 and 926 MHz band, removing major barriers to adoption of the technology in Australia. Until now, UHF RFID usage in Australia came […]

UPM Raflatac has introduced four newly enhanced RFID tags to meet the demands of a range of applications. The updated UHF tags are all EPC Class1 Gen2 compatible and are now equipped with Impinj’s Monza3 ICs. The new products include an updated DogBone tag, designed as a high-end general purpose tag suitable for use in […]

A partnership of several major players in China’s RFID market will host the “China International RFID Technologies and Applications Show” in June. The show will feature more than 100 exhibitors from around the world, representing the RFID industry from manufacturers to end users, spread out over 5,000 square meters of exhibition space in the Shenzen […]

The European Payments Council, the European banking industry’s coordination and decision-making body, has released a series of ATM anti-skimming recommendations for the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). The suggestions include changing ATM card readers to prevent the attachment of skimming devices and measures to jam or disturb skimming devices. The EPC also suggests installation of […]

Another device joins the recent parade of products from China’s Daily RFID. The newest addition to the Daily RFID family is a long range reader intended for use in car access control solutions. The new DL910 reader has a read range of up to 15 meters and supports multiple protocols including ISO 18000-6C (EPC Gen […]

Finnish RFID provider UPM Raflatac continues to make waves with its RFID tags, this time in its home waters. The company supplied the tags used in a vehicle identification solution pilot program for the Finnish Road Authority, meant to streamline traffic on a car ferry system. The ferry system carries vehicles to and from Hailuoto […]

In an effort to reduce its return rate of unsold books, Japanese publishing house Shogakukan Inc. has introduced a two-tiered distribution system for retailers. The publisher has deployed RFID technology to keep the potentially complex system accurate. Unsold books returning from bookstores is an unwanted reality of the publishing business, especially since many of the […]

A Zebra Technologies printer/encoder has been chosen by three U.S. government contractors to help them fulfill a contract recently awarded by the U.S. Army. Lowry Computer Products, Northrop Grumman Corporation and ODIN technologies selected the Zebra RZ400 for the passive RFID hardware component. Under the terms of the contract, the prime contractors and their business […]

For corporate bigwigs whose executive washrooms have gone high tech, SkyRFID now offers the perfect accessory. Their new Executive Key Holder is made of chrome steel and brown leather, and addresses all levels of physcial access control solutions, with both a spring-loaded swivel for keys and a Gen 2 RFID inlay. The key holder measures […]

NEC has announced plans to launch a multi-format RFID card reader next April. A prototype of the new device, which is compatible with all three major wireless card formats along with a few others, was on display at the company’s iExpo event in Tokyo this week, according to a PC World article. The reader was […]