RFID Tribe’s new report The RFID Workforce Report 2007 calls the RFID worker bees “an emerging community” comprising more than one million individuals. The 60-page report provides “a clear picture of where RFID professionals work, how they innovate, the challenges they face and the roles they play,” according to RFID Tribe’s Press release. NewswireToday – […]

AeroScout and Cisco are linked more closely now that the Wi-Fi active RFID entrepreneur’s tags work with the networking giant’s CCX tag format. This compatibility, according to AeroScout, “enables Cisco customers to add the most advanced location functionality to their Wi-Fi networks.” RFID Tag: AeroScout Announces Enhanced Location And Sensor Capabilities With Cisco 5/25/2007 AeroScout, […]

Digital Angel Corporation, an advanced technology company in the field of rapid and accurate identification, location tracking and condition monitoring of high-value assets, and VeriChip Corporation, a provider of RFID systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, announced they have established a joint committee to design and develop a working, implantable glucose microchip to determine glucose […]

Singapore’s aquarium has tagged some of its fishes using microchips to help visitors identify the different species on display. Visitors to the Underwater World aquarium can see the name, species and other information displayed on a computer screen whenever any of the 20 tagged fish swim past a sensor.   

AeroScout, Inc. announced the full compatibility of its market-leading Wi-Fi tags with Cisco’s newly released CCX tag format. This enables Cisco customers to add the most advanced location functionality to their Wi-Fi networks through AeroScout’s award-winning Active RFID hardware and software solutions. AeroScout Announces Enhanced Location and Sensor Capabilities With Cisco Long-Standing Technology Partnership Delivers […]

Galleries are tagging collections to improve inventory control, security, and the total customer experience By Ryan Kline, Contributing Editor After leaving a museum, you may think you are an expert on everything from painting to sculpture, but there are a lot of artifacts that you passed right by. It wasn’t that you went too fast […]

Sagem Défense Sécurité (SAFRAN Group) is launching two new biometric access control products during one of the main security trade shows in Europe. The MorphoAccess™ 500, a physical access control terminal, and MorphoSmart™ 1350, a logical access control reader will be introduced at IFSEC 2007. Sagem Défense Sécurité launches new range of biometric access control […]

By Jerry Banks and Les G. Thompson, co-authors of RFID Applied In the previous article, “The principles of RFID: Hardware Basics,” we discussed the key hardware components found in most RFID solutions. This article will focus on the active tag, an RFID tag that has an onboard power source. This power source is, in most […]

Neurotechnologija, a provider of high-precision biometric identification technologies, announced that the company’s MegaMatcher 2.0 fingerprint recognition algorithm has received full certification in the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Minutiae Interoperability Exchange Test (MINEX). The MINEX test evaluates fingerprint template encoding and matching to determine compliance with the government’s Personal Identity Verification […]

AuthenTec announced that its AES2501 fingerprint sensor is now being integrated into the new OMNIKEY CardMan® 7121 smart card reader. The new USB card reader combines smart card technology with fingerprint recognition which is tailored for logical access control in high-security business or government environments. AuthenTec Fingerprint Sensor Selected by ASSA ABLOY Identification Technologies to […]