After a few years’ worth of successful pilot testing, Purdue is ready to tag – for real – and track bottles of the controlled painkiller OxyContin, RFID Journal reports. The company plans plans to migrate from the Symbol EPC Class 0 passive UHF inlays it currently uses to EPC Gen 2 passive UHF inlays containing […]

Electronics powerhouse Siemens AG is showing off its full range of RFID products and services from a single source year’s CeBIT. It’s a “comprehensive portfolio,” which will make it easier for companies to launch their RFID-based initiatives and help lower their investment costs. The three Siemens Groups Automation and Drives (A&D), Industrial Solutions and Services […]

There hasn’t been a whole lot of positive response for the RFID chip implant business, despite the industry’s clamoring for volunteers. For a while there, VeriChip’s controversial implantable RFID (developed to improve the accuracy of surgery and other applications) dominated headlines. But according to Mobile magazine and other media, VeriChip has sunk a lot of […]

Mad Cow Disease prevention is big in Europe and The States already, and now – in China, too. Advanced ID says it has been in talks with representatives in several countries, including China, to provide products for livestock tagging trials. New outbreaks of Mad Cow Disease and Bird Flu have increased interest in programs that […]

Purdue Pharma plans to integrate Impinj’s high-speed, RFID-enabled pharmaceutical packaging line. The production-level deployment of Impinj’s GrandPrix UHF RFID suite – which includes Speedway readers and tags powered by Monza chips – is scheduled for the second quarter of 2007. Purdue Pharma Selects Impinj Gen 2 RFID Item-Level Tagging Technology for First-of-Its-Kind High-Speed Packaging Line […]

It’s tiny, energetic, and can be packaged in various configurations, with shelf life lasting decades, yet still able to be activated almost instantaneously on demand. We’re talking about the smart “NanoBattery” for active RFID applications, in the works by mPhase Tecnologies. “Active RFID tags require a small footprint with reliable portable power,” said Ronald A. […]

RFID converting technology specialist Worldlabel, the Internet-based marketing division of Singapore’s Innotech Resources Pte Ltd., today introduced of its premier Infinity V1 RFID Tag and Inlay embedding system for smart RFID label converting. The new, flexible machine targets different market sectors, its makers calling it a low-cost alternative for converting RFID inlays so they are […]

UPM Raflatac, which manufactures RFID tags and inlays, will supply the goods for Moscow Metro passengers. Moscow metro is one of the world’s most heavily used mass-transit systems, and carries 8.2 million passengers on a normal weekday. The new RFID inlays will replace some of the short-term commuter cards with magnetic strips. RFID Inlays: UPM […]

Xterprise, which develops and manages the complete lifecycle of RFID-enabled supply chain operations for iGPS – from source tagging to network wide inventory management – placed one of the biggest orders yet for 4.5 million RFID tags. The company iGPS manages a large North American pool of RFID-enabled reusable plastic shipping pallets. Alien, Avery Dennison, […]

Stratum Global, Intermec, and other vendors are going full speed ahead in helping to establish the RFID program at Oakton Community College. Based in Des Plaines, Ill., Oakton’s RFID program provides hands-on experience in a simulated industrial warehouse environment to prepare students for opportunities in the workplace. Among the goods delivered: Intermec provided its IF5 […]