A Massachusetts company has created an active RFID product for hospitals that can track patients and equipment. Bypassing normal RFID uses, Radianse, Inc. is into its second year of production, averaging about one new hospital a month. As its founder and chief technology officer, Mike Dempsey, says: “We don’t do supply chain, we don’t do […]

Cisco today announced an Intelligent Foundation for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) to help enterprises introduce RF technologies into the supply chain to increase visibility into product information and optimize business flow for lower operating costs. The most agile, scalable and highly secure RFID solution portfolio offered in the industry, the Cisco RFID Solution delivers integrated […]

“The international biopharmaceutical company Cephalon Inc. is to use the OAT Foundation Suite from OAT Systems as the RFID software platform for its pilot programme for tracking branded pharmaceuticals across the supply chain. For the pilot, the software will provide full visibility of Cephalon’s products as they move through owned and outsourced facilities, as well […]

Gulf States Toyota, a regional Toyota distributor for 145 dealers, has selected IBM and WhereNet Corp., both leaders in wireless solutions for tracking and managing enterprise assets, to provide an active RFID tracking system for processing more than 190,000 cars annually. Gulf States Toyota made the investment in the system to better serve its dealers, […]

ORGA and the local partner OLCSAN have succeeded in gaining a foothold in a strongly expanding region by winning a major order from Bilesim A.S. Bilesim is the Alternative Distribution Channels and Payment Systems company that handles all operations for Turkey’s Ziraatbank and Halkbank. ORGA is to supply credit cards with a chip to Ziraatbank […]

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Alan Melling is the Senior Director of EPC Solutions at Symbol Technologies. Symbol hopes to continue to solidify its position in the RFID market. In what areas does the company look to expand its presence? Symbol wants to expand its RFID presence in the supply chain and government markets with readers that are easy to […]

One of the biggest challenges facing the RFID supply chain is choosing the right type of tag and then deciding where it should be placed on the product’s packaging. Incorrectly placed tags can lead to poor reading results and could mean failure to meet mandated compliance standards. This is where CAPE Systems, with its tag […]

The following is an excerpt of RFID: Applications, Security, and Privacy. This chapter is written by EPC pioneer Sanjay Sarma1. Although the concept of radio frequency identification (RFID) is not new, the term RFID has been in use for only a couple of decades.2 In the 1980s and 1990s, long after the early use of […]

“More significantly, Microsoft’s RFID framework will be encapsulated within enterprise applications, such as Microsoft’s Axapta 4.0, due next year. The company also will offer its RFID object model and APIs to device manufacturers and ISVs – allowing them to plug into Microsoft’s RFID framework and enabling out-of-the-box inventory tracking on the Windows platform, he said.”