Mike Marsh is the Managing Director of Trolley Scan, developers of the EcoTag® UHF RFID system. He is cited in patents embedded in numerous RFID products, mining detonators, mine communication, and free space communication. In a recent newsletter, Trolley Scan suggested that hardware manufacturers are not preparing to meet the demands of retail RFID applications. […]

< ? $key="0205"; ?> This month RFID News talks with companies at opposite ends of the RFID spectrum: commercial supply chain specialists Manhattan Associates and Phidgets USA, supplier to a burgeoning independent developer market. Market-maker Intermec explains its position in the unfolding second generation EPC specification, DoD suppliers work together to support the American soldier […]

The new EPCglobal Inc UHF RFID Generation 2 air interface protocol specification, commonly referred to as “Gen2,” is continuing to spur adoption of RFID. Intermec, which holds more than 140 UHF RFID patents, has applauded the new consensus standard, but maintains that RFID manufacturers who want to offer fully-functional Gen2 RFID systems will need to […]

ASK continues its progress in the provision of low cost RFID labels for library asset management. The company has aligned with Bibliotheca, a European provider of RFID-enabled library solutions, to market a combined system to libraries in the U.S. and Europe. ASK to deliver 4 million RFID smart labels for US and European libraries Bibliotheca […]

Matt Trossen is President of Phidgets USA Would you call your RFID customers hobbyists, academics, professionals – perhaps all of the above? The correct answer is “all of the above” since we do indeed see orders from all walks of life and industry levels. However, there is a slant towards the hobby and academic crowd. […]

Getting active and passive RFID technology to work together has been an ongoing effort of Savi Technology and the U.S. Department of Defense. The result is not a true hybrid, as it has been described. “We don’t make an active/passive tag per se, but we can capture data from both and combine it onto a […]

Drug counterfeiting may cost the worldwide pharmaceutical industry more than US$30 billion annually. Radio frequency identification – RFID – seen as one way to lower that cost, has its own defining characteristics. Issues of drug counterfeiting and patient safety differentiate it from RFID in retail markets. To minimize this wastage, and to raise the level […]

While Congress and President Bush wrestle with the future of Social Security, the agency that runs the program–the Social Security Administration–is using 21st century technology to track the quarter million line items which pass through its warehouse annually. With help from System Concepts, Inc. – a North Carolina-based RFID ISV and solutions provider in the […]

Lowell Adkins, executive director of the National Association of Campus Card Users, has just one word for those attending–or thinking of attending–the organization’s annual meeting in March: Disney. But he’s not talking about the Magic Kingdom, or EPCOT, or MGM, although those certainly provide nice incentives for bringing the family. No, it’s Disney as in […]

“The [EPC – ISO disagreement] concerned eight bits of data in the EPC numbering scheme. ISO designates these eight bits for an Application Family Identifier (AFI) to identify the source of the product, but EPCglobal, which refers to these eight bits in an EPC as a EPC header, was concerned that ISO would not set […]