Tracient Technologies this week announced the release of its new UHF Reader with longer read ranges, faster read rates and lower tag costs. These are the promise of UHF RFID. Calling its new release “stylish and ergonomic,” Tracient says the Padl-R UF can be connected quickly to any Bluetooth-enabled device (PDAs, cell phones, smart phones, […]

Omron RFID today announced that the Scorpion, the latest addition to its UHF EPC Gen2 family of RFID inlays, will be on display at EPC Connection 2007 (Booth 101)(1). The Scorpion, designed to seize the growing section of the RFID tag market that demands long read range in a compact form factor, is scheduled for […]

RSI ID Technologies’ announced this morning its new tamper-evident RFID tags feature special components and properties, which provide the tags with their unique characteristics. The manufacturer of RFID antennas, inlays and tags, says this “first tag in the class” is a destructible RFID tag that upon visual inspection looks and is programmed the same as […]

The latest Alien tags are the size of postage stamps – Squiggle-SQ Item-level (ALN-9529) and Squiggle-SH Case Tags (all EPC Gen 2 RFID). The two new form factors for case and item-level tracking in the consumer packaged goods, retail, transportation, government and defense industries, “represent the maturation of the market, with smaller, higher performance tags […]

Are there still Americans who haven’t heard about Wal-Mart’s efforts with RFID? Perhaps so. It certainly explains to some degree why prominent stores are working to enhance its visibility. Last week, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other members of EPCglobal’s Media and Entertainment Industry Interest Group announced they are conducting an item-level DVD-tagging pilot with EPC […]

Metro Group, a customer of RFID vets Checkpoint Systems, Impinj, and Reva Systems, yesterday announced its completion of “the world’s first” end-to-end point-of-sale RFID project using UHF Gen 2 standards-based systems, according to the company. The implementation for Metro’s high-end Galeria Kaufhof department store in Essen, Germany was the first to demonstrate RFID applications integrated […]

Zebra Technologies Corporation, a Vernon Hills, Ill., company that provides on-demand printing solutions for business improvement, announced today that the company has begun shipments to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide RFID printer/encoders for the USAF Cargo Movement Operation System (CMOS) operating at more than 214 locations worldwide. The planned RFID initiative is expected […]

Now that the euro is firmly entrenched, the next big step for euro-using countries is SEPA, an initiative designed to make electronic payments easier from country to country. When Europeans began migrating to the euro in 1999, the goal was a single payment vehicle usable in all euro-accepting countries. That meant the same currency in […]

Santa Clara, Calif., company Intelleflex Corporation, today announced its Strategic Partner Program (SPP) leveraging Intelleflex’s Intelligent RFID Platform. Program partners offer end-to-end RFID solutions that “are not possible with other automatic data capture technologies,” including advanced RFID tracking, control and monitoring capabilities for yard management, transportation and logistics. So far, SPP partners include more than […]

Confidex, which specializes RFID design, manufacturing and engineering, this week announced the completion of one of the largest UHF tag deliveries with encapsulated Gen2 tags. Container Centralen, a provider of high-quality Returnable Transport Items (RTI) and pooling services with headquarters in Odense, Denmark, has taken delivery of 300,000 of the new, custom designed Confidex RTI […]