RFID hardware supplier iDTRONIC has announced it will showcase its new active RFID system, Active NOW, at the RFID World conference this month in Las Vegas. The new system is designed to support a broad range of RFID applications and solutions, while being easy to integrate into existing networks. Component of the Active NOW system […]

PeakWorks, a provider of personal protection gear such as safety harnesses, has announced it will use N4 System’s Field ID network to provide traceability for its line of fall protection gear. The system uses RFID tags and associated technology and software to increase traceability of safety equipment for distributors, customers, and safety inspectors “Fall protection […]

Terso Solutions, a provider of RFID solutions for the health care industry, has announced an October release date for a new version of the company’s RFID-enabled medical cabinets. The new edition of the system will feature tags and interrogators compliant with the UHF EPC Gen-2 air-interface standard. Terso offers a line of cabinets, refrigerators and […]

RedPrairie Corp., the consumer driven optimization company, has announced the integration of RFID technology into the yard management module of its Warehouse Management System (WMS) solutions. The RFID-enabled system tracks trailers from gate check-in through check-out, enabling customers to reduce the time, cost and uncertainties of managing trailer movements within their campuses. The new WMS […]

Checkpoint Systems Inc. has announced it will acquire OATSystems Inc. in an all-cash transaction. Checkpoint Systems plans to operate OATSystems as a division of its company, continuing to use and develop the OATSystems brand and software platform while also retaining the company’s senior management. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. OATSystems provides software solutions […]

Texas-based McLane Advanced Technologies LLC (MAT) has announced its purchase of another Texas firm, the software company RFID Systems Inc. MAT, a provider of information technology and logistics services to government and commercial customers, has not disclosed the terms of the sale, beyond a plan to move all of RFID Systems operations to its Temple, […]

Secured Digital Applications Inc. has announced its selection by New Alliance Ltd. to install the EyStar Warehouse Management System for a subsidiary company in Fuzhou, China. The contract, valued at $1.76 million, is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2009. The EyStar system incorporates inventory, shipping, receiving and picking capabilities into one […]

Canadian-based AppLocation, a specialist in wireless supply chain tracking, has announced it has been awarded a contract to track cable reels in a network of supply yards across Canada. The system will use active RFID tags and the company’s MOBILEfusion platform to track cable reels from a distribution center to nine yards, with the prospect […]

Freight deliverer DHL and European retailer METRO Group have announced they will cooperate to launch France’s largest RFID-enabled retail logistics system. Beginning in fall 2008, DHL will use RFID tags to track all its shipments to the 89 Metro Cash & Carry wholesale stores in France. This translates to around 1.3 million pallets being tracked […]

Speaking at an RFID conference in Fargo, North Dakota, Alien Technology CEO George Everhart offered a look at his company’s recent growth spurt and predicted more of the same in the next few years. According to Everhart, in the last 18 months Alien has gone from having one major customer, Wal-Mart, to a roster of […]