Chinese RFID tag maker Daily RFID has introduced a versatile new UHF RFID tag which the company plans to offer at a cost of less than 55 cents. The tag, which Daily RFID engineer David Chen refers to as the One-Off Using tag, was originally designed as part of a apparel management solution, but can […]

HID Global has launched its first mobile contactless USB reader, one of several announcements the company made during the CARTES and IDentification show in Paris this week. Two others involved one of its contactless readers being part of the first mobile payment terminal system to achieve MasterCard PayPass certification and its MIFARE Easy Reader Board […]

Chinese RFID developer Daily RFID Co. Ltd. has introduced a Gen 2 RFID wristband with ISO 18000-6 compliant inlays. The wristband is designed for health care applications such as tracking patients, especially newborns, in hospital settings. The wristbands are constructed of 100% non-allergenic silicon, a comfortable and hygienic material. Read distances for the tags vary […]

SkyRFID Inc. has announced a range of ceramic RFID inlay tags intended for mounting on or in metal. The new line, which consists of eight different UHF Gen 2 tags, offers read ranges from two meters to more than six meters, and temperature ranges of up to 200 °C. Among the new offerings is a […]

Convergence Systems Limited (CSL), a Hong Kong-based RFID provider, has launched its new CS101 UHF Gen2 RFID handheld reader. The CS101 offers a read range exceeding 25 feet with standard dipole passive tags and a throughput as high as 400 tags per second; a performance comparable to many fixed readers on the market. The CS101 […]

Normerica INC., one of North America’s largest private-label kitty litter producers, has implemented a new system which simplifies the RFID-tagging process required by some major retailers. The new system, created by Ship2Save and packaging producer Krupack, eliminates the need for an on-site RFID printer and the manual placement of RFID tags, relying instead on tags […]

The NEC Corporation, with the support and promotional assistance of supply chain standards organization GS1, has launched a new mirror that uses RFID technology to provide shoppers with product information as they try on clothes. The EPCmagic Mirror uses GS1 EPC/RFID technology to display product information such as available sizes, colors and prices, as well […]

California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products based on the patented technology are printed silicon HF integrated circuits (PICs) with 128 bits of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio’s new product was announced […]

Mojix Inc., a recent RFID start-up headquartered in Los Angeles, has announced the expansion of its eNode family of EPC RFID transmitters. The company calls the transmitters the fundamental building blocks of the its STAR system, which the company launched in April of this year as a method to enhance the range of low-cost passive […]

Jerry Banks, Co-author of RFID Applied This article is based on a presentation made on June 5, 2008 at a kickoff meeting of a new RFID center. The author agreed to talk on the topic of recent advances in RFID. To accomplish the desired result, the RFID literature was monitored almost daily for the prior […]