In the new report “RFID for the Postal and Courier Service”, IDTechEx estimates that the global market for RFID systems, including tags, will reach $2.5 billion in 2018. The report goes in-depth, covering more than 40 cases studies of RFID in action at postal and courier services in North America, Europe, the Middle East and […]

GE Healthcare and Cisco have joined forces to help hospitals improve the quality of patient care, increase efficiency, and reduce costs by enabling them to better manage the flow of patients, staff and medical equipment. Hospitals will now have the ability to deploy GE’s AgileTrac platform, integrated with the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and Cisco […]

The Peninsula Regional Medical Center of Salisbury, Md. has teamed up with AeroScout to deploy a real-time location system to monitor critical equipment, as well as refrigeration units with pharmaceuticals and other temperature-sensitive items. The 362-bed facility is using AeroScout’s solutions and leveraging its network throughout for a variety of use cases and applications such […]

TJS debuted the ZeroShrink Starter Kit2, designed to provide jewelry retailers, wholesalers and sales representatives a means for wireless high-speed jewelry and diamond tracking on the road, or anywhere for that matter. Reducing the loss and security risks associated with moving high value items, the kit includes a wireless hand held RFID scanner, 200 label […]

Zebra announced availability in the Asia Pacific for its RFID printer/encoder for high-volume item-level tagging: the R110Xi4. The RXi4 offers Zebra’s patent-pending Adaptive Encoding technology, which can detect RFID inlay position within the label and automatically configure the printer/encoder without having to manually calibrate for the inlay, thus ensuring tag accuracy and saving time and […]

According to research firm Havoscope Black Markets, counterfeiting pharmaceutical drugs is the number one black market activity globally, costing the industry $200 billion annually. Argentinean pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Gador, who supplies medications to nearly 2.5 million patients each month through its distribution network, recently completed an RFID system pilot to evaluate the technology’s ability to […]

HID Global announced the appointment of Jason Walden in an effort to drive the company’s Identification Solutions RFID Industry and Logistics business in the UK, Ireland, Benelux and Scandinavia. Walden will be responsible for extending HID’s growth in RFID tagging into the rapidly growing market for solutions that support asset-tracking, process automation, medical processes and […]

DAILY RFID released an ultra-high frequency EPC Gen 2 hang tag to streamline the manual inventory processes in fashion and apparel applications. It is suitable for use in a wide range of applications fields, such as in apparel retail, garment rental operations. Hundreds of the hang tags can be read per second at a range […]

Winemakers, cellars and collectors encounter a number of obstacles during the recording of inventory management, including the country and region of origin, varietal information, vintage, alcoholic degree, volume, producer, bottler, importer and wine destination. ACG Global has made available a wine inventory management system employing RFID technology compliant with EPCglobal standards designed specifically for the […]

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India will soon introduce the power of RFID technology in its central library to improve check-in and check-out time for books and other materials, as reported by The Times of India. In addition to remedying preceding problems with long queue lines and shortages of supporting staff members, the new system will […]