Baltimore, Md.-based IntelliTrack, Inc., a developer of affordable software for barcode and RFID data collection, is teaming up with Lowry Computer Products, Inc., a national manufacturer and systems integrator providing premier technology in wireless, RFID-EPC, barcode and data collection solutions. The mission: providing a complete RFID Asset Management system – and a starter kit for […]

Alien Technology, an RFID label-maker and then some, is deep into its collaboration with Microsoft at its RFID Solutions Center in Dayton, Ohio. The point? To drive enterprise-ready applications of RFID technology for mutual customers – in the combined Microsoft BizTalk RFID Infrastructure and Alien hardware platform. Said Burley Kawasaki, Group Product Manager, BizTalk Server […]

SupplyScape Corporation is buiding something big: secure software and expertise that will safeguard the pharmaceutical supply chain. To secure this “safety net” (and prevent fraud), the Woburn, Mass., company’s adding some hefty manpower to its Board of Advisors: Bill Hubbard, former FDA senior associate commissioner, was often called to Capitol Hill to educate government officials […]

Meet the man who will decide if you are Gen 2 compliant (This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations) WHETHER YOU ARE selling or buying Gen 2 products, the readers and tags under development are about to be put to the test. RFID Operations decided to speak to the man in charge […]

UHF RFID product manufacturer Alien Technology issued a lawsuit against intermec Inc. “to prove non-infringement of RFID patents,” according to a press release posted at 9:38 a.m. EST today. The suit, filed in federal district court in the District of North Dakota, seeks a declaratory judgment for patent non-infringement “and invalidity on ten Intermec patents […]

Frozen food industry distributor Atlas Cold Storage is teaming with Ship2Save to use the latter’s RFID system. The goal: to move frozen food faster, offering more “value-added” services to clients that need to meet Wal-Mart (and other mass-market retailer) mandates. “With this new RFID installment, we continue to expand our RFID services offering,” said Darryl […]

New Navigo travel cards, using ASK’s dual interface contactless technology, have replaced the paper-based Carte Orange passes for mass transit users in Paris and its environs. RATP, Paris’ mass transit authority, SNCF, which operates passenger and freight rail service in France, and other private operators started accepting the new cards this month. More than 1.5 […]

Each has its own merits, but using both is practical and inexpensive. Such is the challenge of the future, with RFID standards, now that we’re well-settled into the technology, says IDTechEx, which just issued a new report discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each for item level tagging. Here’s an excerpt: “We must not repeat […]

So far, the whole RFID thing’s mostly revolved around ‘slap and ship’ operations … at least in the commercial sector. But more and more, companies appear to have the technical prowess to take RFID to the next level, by managing data appropriately. Take OATSystems and ADT, a unit of Tyco Fire & Security. The business […]

Cardinal Health, Inc., an Energizer Bunny of pharmaceutical products and services in the health care industry, is moving to Phase II of its first “the “end-to-end pilot program” to test RFID in the drug supply chain. The pilot program will begin to tag medication with labels carrying unique data that can be captured and read […]