RFID component maker KSW Microtec AG has introduced its new KSW windshield inlay. The windshield tag is intended for use by commercial fleet operators or to manage access to corporate parking lots and high-security commercial and industrial areas. The inlay features a customized antenna design and assembly which removes the need for a foam standoff. […]

Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) has deployed a RFID tracking system throughout its pork processing plant, allowing it to track its product from a whole hog’s arrival at the slaughterhouse to packaged pork landing on the store shelf. Newly arrived hogs are placed on hang rails carrying RFID tags. These tags record the hog’s origin, […]

By Jerry Banks and Les G. Thompson, co-authors of RFID Applied It is hard to label any component of an RFID system as being more critical than any of the others. In past articles we have discussed the RFID tag, as well as, the RFID antenna hardware. Both of these fundamental pieces are integral parts […]

Zebra Technologies has introduced its Zebra RZ400 and RZ600 UHF RFID Gen 2 midrange printer/encoders. The RZ series is intended to offer broad functionality at relatively low costs, making the products well-suited to lower duty cycle EPC Gen 2 RFID compliance and closed-loop RFID applications. Zebra developed its RZ Series to enable smaller suppliers to […]

Avery Dennison RFID has launched four new RFID inlays, each designed with a specific industry application in mind. The new UHF inlays are EPC Class 1 Gen 2 and ISO-180006-C-compliant and are manufactured using the company’s proprietary high speed strap attach technology. The new designs include: The AD-224, with extra memory to allow storage of […]

Sirit Inc. has introduced a new high frequency reader module designed for embedded RFID applications. The INfinity 110 (“IN110”) allows for easy integration into RFID devices such as handheld readers, mobile or stationary printers as well as point-of-sale terminals. The IN110 uses the new Texas Instruments TRF7960 chip and provides application developers with a variety […]

The Athena IDProtect 72K Java Card received U.S. Government FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certification while the Athena ASEPCOS Digital Signature smart card received the French Government Common Criteria EAL4+ certification for SSCD Type 3, enabling users to choose from Open Platform or file system based solutions for highest level of security required by government and […]

RFID and technology developer Freedom Shopping, Inc., has reached a breakthrough with its the retail industry’s first OEM offering that plugs into existing cash registers and point-of-sale terminals to enable RFID checkout and more. “This fundamentally changes the way stores will operate – sales increase, labor costs decrease and ‘intelligent security’ reduces shrinkage,” said Rob […]

Alien Technology and Hardcard Systems, a leading motorsports management and consulting firm, today announced the completion of the first rounds of field testing using RFID for motorsports timing and scoring. In tests conducted at Buttonwillow Raceway in California in December 2007, Hardcard and Alien used standard Gen 2 UHF RFID tags, antennas, readers and software […]

RFID Journal published a brief news analysis of the new CaptureTech RFID Wedge, a device intended to make RFID easier to install (if all those e-learning courses aren’t working!). Here’s the quick lowdown: The Wedge, developed by Baltimore, Md.-based Barcoding, Inc., is designed to make RFID technology “more accessible to users,” according to the Journal. […]