The following is an excerpt of RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy. This chapter is written by EPC pioneer Sanjay Sarma1. Although the concept of radio frequency identification (RFID) is not new, the term RFID has been in use for only a couple of decades.2 In the 1980s and 1990s, long after the early use of […]

A California produce company which has delivered tree fruit and grapes to grocery store shelves for more than 50 years tapped RFID technology as one of its 21st century moves to increase its order accuracy while getting a better handle on inventory. The result will be a better quality product for its retail and wholesale […]

Dr. Peter Harrop PhD, FIEE, FCIM is Chairman of IDTechEx Ltd. He has consulted for organizations such as Kodak, GEC, the Manchester Airport, and Diageo. He lectures and consults internationally on low cost RFID. On the left of the following diagram, you’ll find horizontal marketing. Chipmakers and material suppliers sell their goods to all comers. […]

By Dann Anthony Maurno Intermec Technologies Corp. is offering its version of a summer sale on its patent portfolio; and, yes, it’s only available until just before Labor Day. The company announced on May 4 its Rapid Start Licensing Program, which provides RFID manufacturers access to Intermec’s 140+ portfolio of RFID patents at reduced rates. […]

Wanted: innovators who anticipate the complexity of future RFID networks By Steve Smith You know that line chart projecting billions of revenue for the RFID market by 2008? Leave it out of your next pitch to venture capitalists. “Everybody’s got the hockey stick chart,” says Aaron Cheatham, principal at Mobius Venture Capital. Claiming that your […]

“The downside is that the cost of EPC Gen 2 tags will be higher than Gen 1 tags. Here’s why. A Gen 2 microchip will have about 40,000 transistors, compared with just 12,000 for a microchip used in a Gen 1 Class 1 EPC tag. Silicon chips for Gen 2, if made with the same […]

< ? $key="3456"; ?> As IP battles continue to rage, a startup has released middleware under an open source software license, meaning anyone — including competitors — can use or alter the product. It also means that, if properly supported and developed, it could become a viable platform for a number of smaller, service-based providers. […]

Manhattan Associates has released an improved version of its EPC Manager which Greg Gilbert, director of RFID Solutions, says will enhance a company’s “work flow and translation activities to better enable the integration of EPC technology into existing business applications.” The company announced its new EPC Manager, now in its third version, in early April […]

I.D. Systems, in collaboration with Symbol Technologies, is shooting to produce a prototype wireless tracking system for airport cargo and baggage handling. The Transportation Security Administration contract is aimed at tracking the vehicles that handle the cargo. “TSA has basically collaborated with I.D. Systems and Symbol to integrate what I.D. Systems does, which is wireless […]

Readers must be able to scan 100 tags per second By Dennis Sullivan The pool of vendors doing business with the military just got larger with some of the biggest names in the RFID industry trying to capture a share of the estimated $200 million government contracting market. Last month, nine companies won approval from […]