The latest Alien tags are the size of postage stamps – Squiggle-SQ Item-level (ALN-9529) and Squiggle-SH Case Tags (all EPC Gen 2 RFID). The two new form factors for case and item-level tracking in the consumer packaged goods, retail, transportation, government and defense industries, “represent the maturation of the market, with smaller, higher performance tags […]

Some say RFID is the antidote to drug counterfeiting. But others, from tech publications like the EETimes, question this notion. Check out this excerpt: The electronics industry has been counting on RFID’s adoption as the antidote to drug counterfeiting. But legal wrangling and federal foot-dragging, abetted by the powerful pharmaceutical lobby, are raising concerns that […]

Are there still Americans who haven’t heard about Wal-Mart’s efforts with RFID? Perhaps so. It certainly explains to some degree why prominent stores are working to enhance its visibility. Last week, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other members of EPCglobal’s Media and Entertainment Industry Interest Group announced they are conducting an item-level DVD-tagging pilot with EPC […]

Metro Group, a customer of RFID vets Checkpoint Systems, Impinj, and Reva Systems, yesterday announced its completion of “the world’s first” end-to-end point-of-sale RFID project using UHF Gen 2 standards-based systems, according to the company. The implementation for Metro’s high-end Galeria Kaufhof department store in Essen, Germany was the first to demonstrate RFID applications integrated […]

Zebra Technologies Corporation, a Vernon Hills, Ill., company that provides on-demand printing solutions for business improvement, announced today that the company has begun shipments to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide RFID printer/encoders for the USAF Cargo Movement Operation System (CMOS) operating at more than 214 locations worldwide. The planned RFID initiative is expected […]

Worldwide, legislation is driving RFID rollouts for animal tagging, often subsidized by governments. Why? concerns over animal health, potential bio-terrorism, food safety, international trade, and improving supply chain management have made animal and meat traceability essential. With Asia Pacific having the highest livestock population globally, the RFID animal tagging market in the region is set […]

RF Code, Inc., a provider of enterprise-class active RFID technology, recently announced the addition of a new long-range mobile reader to its active RFID product suite. The new Bluetooth-enabled M220 reader was designed to bring automatic tracking and inventory capabilities to the mass markets of enterprise asset management. The M220 incorporates the desirable density and […]

The WineM by ThingM, a wine rack that employs several radio scanners which can read the RFID product tags on the wine bottles it stores, is getting the thumbs up in the online community. Says a poster at SciFi.com: “It’ll gather all of the information it can including the name of the wine, year, price, […]

Confidex, which specializes RFID design, manufacturing and engineering, this week announced the completion of one of the largest UHF tag deliveries with encapsulated Gen2 tags. Container Centralen, a provider of high-quality Returnable Transport Items (RTI) and pooling services with headquarters in Odense, Denmark, has taken delivery of 300,000 of the new, custom designed Confidex RTI […]

What’s hot in the Asian Pacific? In the region where the livestock population is highest globally, Frost & Sullivan says the RFID animal tagging market is growing. “Concerns over animal health, potential bio-terrorism, food safety, international trade, and improving supply chain management have made animal and meat traceability essential,” notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst […]