East Coast Diversified Corporation’s RFID and GPS operation, EarthSearch, introduced a solar powered line of the company’s LogiBoxx devices. Using its built-in business logic and intelligence LogiBoxx enables immediate action when certain anomalies occur with RFID tagged assets, no matter whether in transit or at rest – an ideal solution for monitoring and tracking trailers […]

Mission Hospital located in Mission Viejo, California has chosen CenTrak, Inc. to install its real-time locating system to enhance asset management and equipment distribution services. The Orange County hospital had roughly 1,400 pieces of movable medical equipment tagged, eliminating equipment loss/theft while decreasing time spent searching for and cleaning equipment. Integrated into the CenTrak infrastructure […]

The United States Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security, has deployed a RFID weapons tracking solution by ODIN to track a variety of weapons in and out of a key armory. The system deployed – ODIN’s EasyArms – is an RFID hardware and software solution used to automatically log weapons and users into and […]

RFID TagSource announced the launch of the AeroTag family, a high memory passive RFID tag designed specifically for use in the aircraft industry. The new tags have been developed within the guidelines set by the Air Transport Association and meet ATA Spec2000 and SAE-AS5678 specifications. They boast four-kilobytes of memory and a lightweight rugged design, […]

Intelleflex introduced two new additions to its product family with the new announcement of the HMR-9090 handheld reader and the FMR-6000 fixed reader. Working in tandem with Intelleflex tags the new readers enable wireless on-demand, product-level monitoring for perishable and pharmaceutical cold supply chains. Producers, shippers, distributors and retailers are able to monitor product freshness […]

Lithuanian furniture manufacturer, Freda, has begun employing RFID technology to track furniture shipped and destined for Sweden’s global retail outlet IKEA, reports The Baltic Times. The system consists of EPC Gen 2 passive RFID tags, a portal reader at each loading dock, and a forklift with an on-board computer that transmits order updates. As forklifts […]

Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Okl. has teamed together with ClearCount Medical Solutions and Medline Industries to introduce an RFID platform aimed to prevent retained surgical sponge incidents. In all of its operating rooms, Jane Phillips implemented ClearCount’s SmartWand-DTX, an RFID-based platform that uniquely counts and detects all surgical sponges used during hospital procedures. […]

Tego recently made available new aviation-grade RFID tags developed by Tokyo-based RFID provider Marubeni Chemix using the TegoChip technology for aerospace and a broad range of industrial applications. The Marubeni TAGAT tags deliver high memory and rugged survivability for harsh industrial environments. They are ideal for use in oil/gas, rail/aviation, automotive, chemical, medical, utilities and […]

COMMERCEWorx and GlobeRanger announced the market release of the GR-Shipping Validation Solution, designed to ensure final reconciliation for retail suppliers that product shipments correctly match the advance shipping notice expected by large scale retailers. Utilizing GlobeRanger iMotion software platform, the solution marries and verifies, through the use of RFID enable packages, the actual ship quantity […]

NASA’s Johnson Space Center announced that it intends to purchase RFID readers and associated peripherals from A.C.C. Systems Inc. for a space flight inventory system on the International Space Station. NASA has a requirement for forty-one RFID readers and other associated peripherals— for example extra batteries, handle battery, USB cable and power controller. The RFID […]