Three major players in the RFID industry, UPM Raflatac, Impinj, and Zebra Technologies, have announced their collaboration on an RFID-enabled product concept. The newly available concept attempts to optimize item-level tagging and validation for process-intensive industries, including electronics and retail manufacturing, health care and pharmaceuticals and third-party logistics. The collaborative effort offers users the ability […]

ODIN Technolgies, provider of RFID infrastructure solutions, has unveiled its SMART Container solution. The solution is a self-inventorying container system initially conceived to close via RFID technology the visibility gap in the supply chain where items were put into closed containers. Users of the SMART Container solution place low-cost passive RFID tags on items to […]

Alliance, a provider of retail marketing solutions, has unveiled a new, RFID-enabled version of its MAXRPM retail display system. The new version deploys RFID technology to create an inventory management solution for retail promotional items, providing retailers and manufacturers with real-time tracking capabilities of retail promotion performance at the item level. The new system offers […]

Element ID Inc., a designer of RFID readers and specialty automation systems, has introduced two new RFID readers. The HF1 and HF1-B readers are designed to monitor item level data in automated systems, and offer multiple modes of operation to enable configuration to meet an array of application requirements. The readers, which do not require […]

The Sam’s Club division of Wal-Mart has announced a dramatic decrease in the penalty fee it will charge suppliers who do not use RFID-enabled pallets to ship their goods. The change comes after major changes a year ago in Wal-Mart’s own RFID requirements. The Sam’s Club plan originally required suppliers to be tagging the pallets […]

UPM Raflatac has introduced four newly enhanced RFID tags to meet the demands of a range of applications. The updated UHF tags are all EPC Class1 Gen2 compatible and are now equipped with Impinj’s Monza3 ICs. The new products include an updated DogBone tag, designed as a high-end general purpose tag suitable for use in […]

By David C. Wyld, Southeastern Louisiana University The global postal and package shipping market has long been projected to be one of the largest potential RFID applications. However, while leading shippers UPS and FexEx were early proponents of RFID, they have backed off on significant RFID projects, due to their sizable investments in bar code […]

GlobeRanger, providers of RFID software platforms, and Atos Origin, a management consulting firm, have partnered to provide a real-time RFID tracking solution for the Dutch Forensics Insititute (NFI). The application tracks and traces the exact time, location, and movement of item-level criminal evidence during forensic analysis and processing at NFI. The RFID system, designed in […]

California-based Kovio Inc. has unveiled a silicon ink-based RFID tag and an accompanying RFID platform. The first products based on the patented technology are printed silicon HF integrated circuits (PICs) with 128 bits of printed read-only memory, which will serve as the foundation for a low-cost HF RFID tag family. Kovio’s new product was announced […]

Jerry Banks, Co-author of RFID Applied This article is based on a presentation made on June 5, 2008 at a kickoff meeting of a new RFID center. The author agreed to talk on the topic of recent advances in RFID. To accomplish the desired result, the RFID literature was monitored almost daily for the prior […]