The Edwards Air Force Base in California is in the process of testing an RFID-enabled aircraft identification system that is said to make air-to-air refueling more efficient and economical. A form of inventory control, the test involved a KC-135 fuel tanker and an F-16 Fighting Falcon equipped with RFID tags. Antennas from fuel tanker scan […]

Dell Direct is now offering turnkey IT asset tracking RFID solutions to increase efficiency and harden security, with the aid of ODIN Technologies. The solutions will allow companies to replace conventional bar code systems and manual processes and offer enhanced server and personal computer tracking. With the aid of ODIN, Dell Direct will offer five […]

European provider of returnable transport packaging for the flower and plant industry, Container Centralen have selected Nordic ID as part of Container Centralen’s Operation Chip It. Operation Chip It is a tagging operation in which all 3.5 million CC Containers get new tags. This is to protect the CC Pool System from illegal copies of […]

Oxford-based asset track-and-trace technology company, Helveta, is working with Carbon Trust Investments to support the development and deployment of software to wipe out the global illegal timber trade, which is said to be a major contributor to climate change. RFID tags are attached to trees while in the forest giving Helveta software the ability to […]

German studies are under way to show the effects of RFID tagging and how it can improve the tracking and verification of pharmaceutical products throughout the supply chain, even down to the individual packs, according to a Securing Pharma report. The RadioPharm project is looking at the use of item-level RFID, in combination with case- […]

Balluff announced the creation of a new industrial RFID tag designed to withstand temperatures as high as 200° C (392° F), for limited exposure times. During high-temperature exposure the tags remain inactive, therefore preserving the data within. Reading and writing data ideally takes place outside of the high temperature areas at around 70° C (158° […]

Confidex announced its newest ultra-high frequency RFID product, the Confidex Captura, which requires no adhesives, screws or other fixings to install. The Class 1 Gen 2 tag comes with both mechanical and electrical seal functions, which give the upper hand in authenticating assets. When a tag is removed or the mechanical seal is broken, it […]

Varlink has signed a deal with Unitech to distribute its handheld portable terminals, RFID readers and industrial PDAs in the UK market. Now a Unitech mobility partner, Varlink is stocking various products such as its PA600 Phone Edition Mobile Computer, PA600 Healthcare PDA and PA600 Mobile Clinic Asssistant. Varlink will also be distributing the hardwearing […]

Cattle farmers in the Maharashtra and Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu are using RFID technology to regulate and monitor cattle nutrition, and to create higher yield on quality milk, according to an article from The Economic Times. Overeating can lead to fatal diseases such as enterotoxaemia, but an insufficient diet can also lead to complications. […]

The Korean government stated that 50% of all its drugs will be equipped with RFID technology by 2015 to improve inventory control and reduce the number of prescription errors, according a Korea Times report. The country’s low recovery rate for second-rate drugs is currently around 20% and government officials have long considered RFID as a […]