Reprinted with the permission of the Smart Card Alliance Many applications are now using radio frequency (RF) chip technology to automatically identify objects or people. These applications range from tracking animals and tagging goods for inventory control to enabling fast payment and securely identifying people. While these applications all use radio waves to communicate information, […]

By Andy Kowl, Editor RFID Operations When Wal-Mart announced on Jan. 11 at ProMat in Chicago that 57 suppliers were then shipping RFID-tagged cases and pallets, eyebrows were raised. The retailer has been under increasing scrutiny by the growing RFID industry and the business press, with rumors of poor compliance, low read-rates and broken machines. […]

Suppliers take a variety of routes to reach the RFID destination By Gene J. Koprowski Wal-Mart flexibly managed its 2005 mandate for leading vendors to RFID-enable their containers. The retailer allowed some strategic suppliers to slip past that date, as they worked out an array of compliance problems. By the end of January, the required […]

By Victoria Forlini, Contributing Editor, RFIDOperations Sometimes, being second means actually being first. Being a second tier Wal-Mart supplier means there has been time to watch the first group and learn from the 2005 compliance deadline while preparing for the January 2006 deadline. The result, says Patrick Sweeney, the president and CEO of ODIN Technologies, […]

“The San Antonio security consultant is one of a small but growing number of people who have wireless chips implantedm to make personal information available to authorised parties with a radio frequency identification (RFID) scanner. In Krull’s case, the chip was implanted two months ago so hospital staff could access his medical information quickly in […]

I.D. Systems has been awarded a grant from the TSA to integrate RFID-based baggage tracking capability into the company’s Wireless Asset Net(TM) vehicle security and tracking system. I.D. Systems will develop and prototype a mobile, automated baggage tracking system in which “intelligent” containers and vehicles identify and locate items tagged with EPC-compliant RFID tags, and […]

Jesse Josephson, Vice President of Marketing for PartsBase, has been on the leading edge of technology marketing and implementation for more than seven years. For decades the aviation, aerospace, and defense industries have struggled to increase the efficiency of their supply chain. To date, the vast majority of proposed solutions have not made a lasting […]

< ? $key="9876"; ?> While retail distribution continues to claim the attention of industry watchers, new channels for RFID technology have opened. As the size, complexity and cost of hardware continues to drop, another entry point has revealed itself &mdash the mobile phone. From distributed sensor networks to tiny embedded readers, applications linking RFID to […]

Looking to stem failure rates &emdash; sometimes as high as 50% &emdash; due to mismatched or out of synch RFID tags and readers, a Reston, VA company has developed a benchmark report that can assist end users in determining the right kind of tag and reader for their particular environment. “One of the things we […]

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. […]