Partnership for Response and Recovery Inspections recently put RFID to some good use, tracking government assets to test in the aftermath of tornadoes, storms and floods that struck the southeastern United States in April 2011. PaRR Inspections used AssetTrax, an RFID-based based asset tracking system from Entigral System and UPM DogBone ultra-high frequency RFID tags […]

Maidenform Brands Inc., a global intimate apparel company, has selected CYBRA as its solutions provider of choice for Maindenform’s RFID item-level EPC tagging initiative. The Maidenform item-level RFID tagging and validation solution will be deployed across multiple packing stations driven by a central server running CYBRA’s EdgeMagic RFID software. EdgeMagic is already helping support RFID […]

Zebra and the Navis Star Technology Alliance have formed a strategic partnership that looks to bring further enhancements and better solutions to marine terminal markets. The partnership also enables Navis as the exclusive provider of Zebra’s WhereNet hardware solutions. Together, Navis and Zebra are already providing WhereNet RFID tags for use in the Los Angeles […]

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, Texas has installed Radiant RFID’s Virtual Asset Tracker (VAT) as part of a campus-wide system to track the physical location of assets. The center first conducted business with Radiant in 2008 for its Clinical Simulation Lab. This new installation builds upon the previous to increase […]

DAILY RFID revealed a new small-sized RFID tag measuring 7 millimeters in diameter, cleverly dubbed the RFID Tiny Tag. The miniature RFID read and write tag operates in the 13.56 MHz frequency with support for the ISO 15693 protocol. These, in turn, offer a read and write distance ranging from 2 centimeters on up to […]

STL Technologies, a UK-based criminal justice software provider, has gotten together with Impinj to utilize the company’s RFID technology as part of a real time location system, physical case file management application. Utilizing Impinj’s ultra-high frequency Gen 2 technology, the STL system will not only comply with police business procedures but also address the daily […]

KPV Solar GmbH, headquartered in the Austrian state of Carinthia, has introduced RFID technology into its photovoltaic (solar) modules, enabling greater anti-counterfeiting and product traceability. Integrated into each module’s laminate is an equipped RFID chip that will carry a distinct serial number. Each chip can also carry any related documentation and information regarding specific characteristics […]

Zetes, the European provider in automatic identification solutions and services for goods and people, has announced the acquisition of the Belgian company RFIDEA. Zetes offers a variety of solutions for applications such as manufacturing, transportation and logistics, retail and health care. And by acquiring RFIDEA, Zetes will strengthen its RFID-based offerings, particularly in the pharma […]

Sycuan Casino, located 30 minutes east of downtown San Diego, is upgrading its garment inventory tracking system to InvoTech’s GIMS ultra-high frequency RFID uniform system. With nearly 1,600 team members in eight departments changing uniforms, the GIMS RFID system will automate tracking of Sycuan Casino’s 20,000 apparel items via bulk electronic scanning, without hand counting. […]

Ascendent ID announced its SensorTag family of RFID products designed to accommodate a variety of applications and markets including cold chain, pharmaceutical, shipping container security and aerospace. A variety of sensor tags are available including temperature, humidity, capacitance, flex (resistance), light, contact (open/closed), and specific vapor. The tags sample at user-defined intervals to provide an […]