Another device joins the recent parade of products from China’s Daily RFID. The newest addition to the Daily RFID family is a long range reader intended for use in car access control solutions. The new DL910 reader has a read range of up to 15 meters and supports multiple protocols including ISO 18000-6C (EPC Gen […]

Dutch firm Ambient Systems has launched its Product Series 3000, billing the solution as a “third generation” RFID innovation. The new system offers three functions simultaneously: the ability to check a tagged item’s condition, track it through a series of fixed checkpoints and trace its progression through a system all in real time. The new […]

A partnership between two Benelux firms has produced a rectifier with plastic diodes for UHF RFID antennas. The two companies, Belgium’s IMEC and TNO from the Netherlands, worked under the auspices of the Holst Centre to produce the rectifier, which the team hails as the world’s first. The rectifier is a critical component of devices […]

MysticMD Inc. has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation. The $98,622 grant will fund the development of a screen printable conductive ink for RFID antenna applications. MysticMd is an advanced materials company which develops nanocoatings and nanofilms used to improve the function of a variety […]

California-based RFID solutions provider Intelleflex has introduced a new personnel tag to its European product line. The BAT-7300-EU is designed for personnel tracking applications in a variety of settings, from offices to large commercial or industrial settings. The new tag offers a thin badge profile and a durable design, along with long-range operation with a […]

Zetes, a Belgian-based provider of automatic identification solutions including RFID-enabled systems, has announced the recent successful implementation of a supply chain traceability soltion for Campofrio, one of Spain’s leading producers of processed meats. Zetes’s Spanish subsidiary partnered with ImageID to create the solution, which tracks pallets and packaging throughout a Campofrio processing plant and as […]

Microsoft will unveil two RFID-oriented software packs for its BizTalk enterprise connectivity software suite. The RFID enhancements are part of Monday’s first public beta release of BizTalk Server 2009, which takes advantage of virtualization and enhanced failover clustering featured in Windows Server 2008. The new RFID offerings include BizTalk RFID Mobile, which extends BizTalk RFID […]

A system based on RFID devices from Sirit Inc. has been selected to upgrade operations on Uruguay’s only automated tollway. The automatic vehicle identification (AVI) system is a cooperative effort by Uruguay-based Telsis S.A. and Telectronica, a company which has deployed AVI systems throughout Latin America. The system, which will use Sirit IDentity 5100 readers […]

In an effort to reduce its return rate of unsold books, Japanese publishing house Shogakukan Inc. has introduced a two-tiered distribution system for retailers. The publisher has deployed RFID technology to keep the potentially complex system accurate. Unsold books returning from bookstores is an unwanted reality of the publishing business, especially since many of the […]

By David C. Wyld, Southeastern Louisiana University The global postal and package shipping market has long been projected to be one of the largest potential RFID applications. However, while leading shippers UPS and FexEx were early proponents of RFID, they have backed off on significant RFID projects, due to their sizable investments in bar code […]