Pharmaceutical fraud continues to be a big problem. But as more and more RFID and drug companies complete successful pilots for tracking controlled substances, it’s also big business. Take Aegate, a company whose business is healthcare authentication business. Results major four-month pilot of fraud-busting technology in the United States, unveiled at the recent Secure Pharma […]

RedPrarie’s press releases brag that theirs is “the fastest growing” supply chain company in the world. And they have a lot of evicence to back it up: The company recently launched an automated RFID labeling system at one of Ocean Spray’s warehouse facilities. That’s a lot of cranberry juice, but more importantly, represents the need […]

MicroTRAK GPS, a provider of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) wireless location services will acquire Fibergrations LLC, a privately held Nashville, Tennessee, company that provides end-to-end Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) integration solutions and hardware, RFID Reader Portals and warehouse management consultants. The acquisition “creates a collaborative platform to develop the first world-class, end-to-end solutions combining RFID […]

By Rhea Wessel, Contributing Editor, RFIDOperations This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations. A pen that was first used on Apollo 7 in 1969 and made famous again 3 decades later on the Seinfeld sitcom because it could write upside down, is now able to do much more. Fisher Space Pen of […]

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations. INDIANAPOLIS—The arrival of spring brings warmer weather and, in many states, the beginning of another season for amusement parks and carnivals. Until now, the latter has also meant a roller coaster of paperwork for state safety inspectors. Nationally, about 3,000 […]

New Navigo travel cards, using ASK’s dual interface contactless technology, have replaced the paper-based Carte Orange passes for mass transit users in Paris and its environs. RATP, Paris’ mass transit authority, SNCF, which operates passenger and freight rail service in France, and other private operators started accepting the new cards this month. More than 1.5 […]

Describing contactless cards as an “intermediate” step, a research company is projecting that 50% of cell phones–some 500 million units–will carry NFC capability by 2010, allowing the phones to be used not only for payments at points of sale, but also able to access information from smart objects. OYSTER BAY, N.Y.–Card-based contactless payment systems may […]

Each has its own merits, but using both is practical and inexpensive. Such is the challenge of the future, with RFID standards, now that we’re well-settled into the technology, says IDTechEx, which just issued a new report discussing the advantages and disadvantages of each for item level tagging. Here’s an excerpt: “We must not repeat […]

The headline reads, “The Healthcare RFID Market is Expected to Continue Growing due to New Tagging of Drugs for Anti-Counterfeiting.” As if we didn’t know that already, right? But thanks to the new report plugged in a handy press release, you now have the figures to prove this is the direction the industry – and […]

So far, the whole RFID thing’s mostly revolved around ‘slap and ship’ operations … at least in the commercial sector. But more and more, companies appear to have the technical prowess to take RFID to the next level, by managing data appropriately. Take OATSystems and ADT, a unit of Tyco Fire & Security. The business […]