But DoD’s original January 1 deadline came and went. What’s happening? By Peter A. Buxbaum Showing how important the Department of Defense considers its RFID initiative, already 97% of the supply pallets currently sent to forces in Iraq are being shipped with RFID tags. As for the rest of the mandate, getting the DoD’s RFID […]

EPC Global disagrees; ‘Bloody mess,’ says vendor By Dann Anthony Maurno At first, it seemed as if the new UHF Generation 2 standards the industry had been waiting for would finally allow companies to begin making equipment so any tag could be used with any reader anywhere in the world. EPC Global Inc. even proclaimed […]

Trailblazing retail giant decides to keep rolling out after successful world-famous pilot program By Stephen Barlas With the Gen 2 standard all but a reality, Metro Group, the large German retailer, is getting ready to push its pilot RFID program to a second stage. Since November, 20 consumer goods vendors have been tagging pallets destined […]

Awards could mean $200 million in contracts By Peter A. Buxbaum WASHINGTON D.C.—Five vendors won approval to supply the U.S. military with passive tags as part of a larger program that could be worth $200 million in government contracts over the next several years. This is the first of five groups of RFID sales awards. […]

Suppliers take a variety of routes to reach the RFID destination By Gene J. Koprowski Wal-Mart flexibly managed its 2005 mandate for leading vendors to RFID-enable their containers. The retailer allowed some strategic suppliers to slip past that date, as they worked out an array of compliance problems. By the end of January, the required […]

Awards could mean $200 million in contracts By Peter A. Buxbaum, Contributing Editor, RFIDOperations WASHINGTON D.C.—Five vendors won approval to supply the U.S. military with passive tags as part of a larger program that could be worth $200 million in government contracts over the next several years. This is the first of five groups of […]

French company ASK introduced a new 424 kbps contactless high speed reader at the recent CardTech/SecurTech show in Las Vegas. The SafeID reader is designed for secure ID documents, such as passports and visas. High speed reader for ID documents offers the same performance in ISO14443 type A and B Las Vegas – ASK announces […]

I.D. Systems has been awarded a grant from the TSA to integrate RFID-based baggage tracking capability into the company’s Wireless Asset Net(TM) vehicle security and tracking system. I.D. Systems will develop and prototype a mobile, automated baggage tracking system in which “intelligent” containers and vehicles identify and locate items tagged with EPC-compliant RFID tags, and […]

< ? $key="9876"; ?> While retail distribution continues to claim the attention of industry watchers, new channels for RFID technology have opened. As the size, complexity and cost of hardware continues to drop, another entry point has revealed itself &mdash the mobile phone. From distributed sensor networks to tiny embedded readers, applications linking RFID to […]

Looking to stem failure rates &emdash; sometimes as high as 50% &emdash; due to mismatched or out of synch RFID tags and readers, a Reston, VA company has developed a benchmark report that can assist end users in determining the right kind of tag and reader for their particular environment. “One of the things we […]