The NFC Forum has released its technology architecture and first five forum specifications, the first steps towards defining a modular NFC device architecture, and protocols for data exchange and service delivery. The specifications will be available sometime during the third quarter. During a press conference June 5, the Forum also released its mandatory tag formats […]

Meet the man who will decide if you are Gen 2 compliant (This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations) WHETHER YOU ARE selling or buying Gen 2 products, the readers and tags under development are about to be put to the test. RFID Operations decided to speak to the man in charge […]

Tracking ordinary peeps with RFID has stirred a bit of controversy as of late (um, VeriChip). But BP Refinery’s on its way to a big thumb’s up in OSHA compliance, in using RFID technology for its evacuation system, reports RFID Journal. According to the article, BP Refinery’s Cherry Point, Washington, facility uses an ultra-wideband tracking […]

Delray Beach, Fla.-based VeriChip Corp., under fire lately by critics of its human-implantable chips, is taking its Hugs® and HALO infant protection system overseas. Using wearable RFID tags placed on infants and mothers combined with electronic monitoring of exits, VeriChip’s systems are designed to help protect newborns from possible abduction and to help ensure mothers […]

UHF RFID product manufacturer Alien Technology issued a lawsuit against intermec Inc. “to prove non-infringement of RFID patents,” according to a press release posted at 9:38 a.m. EST today. The suit, filed in federal district court in the District of North Dakota, seeks a declaratory judgment for patent non-infringement “and invalidity on ten Intermec patents […]

Low-cost contactless mass transit ticketing got a big boost recently from systems integrator Cubic, which is now offering support for Innovision Research and Technology’s contactless Jewel chip designed for use in disposable tickets. Jewel, the flagship, low-cost, smart ticketing chip developed by Innovision Research & Technology, the leading RFID design services company, is now supported […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Even with a commercial rollout a short time ago for NFC-enabled phones, Philips continues to tweak the new technology. A study the company conducted late last year raised a couple of issues which will probably find their way into newer NFC iterations, although one of the findings had to do […]

Score another for durable chips with 2048-bit memories in the LRI2K and LRIS2K chips introduced this week by STMicroelectronics – created to meet demands for increased memory in cost-sensitive RFID applications requiring both data storage and high security. The Geneva vendor will market these babies to businesses looking for better access control, library automation, and […]

Jena University Hospital (in Jena, Germany) has high hopes on reducing medication errors (and improving patient care) with internationally based SAP AG’s NetWeaver software package – which it will implement ASAP, says a news release. By applying RFID hardware infrastructure provided by Intel® Solution Services — including port scanners, communication and radio devices and RFID […]

Frozen food industry distributor Atlas Cold Storage is teaming with Ship2Save to use the latter’s RFID system. The goal: to move frozen food faster, offering more “value-added” services to clients that need to meet Wal-Mart (and other mass-market retailer) mandates. “With this new RFID installment, we continue to expand our RFID services offering,” said Darryl […]