A monthly look at government activity at the state and federal levels By Ronald E. Quirk Jr., Esq., Venable LLP During the past month, RFID regulatory trends appear to have shifted. In previous months, the states and the federal government worked to introduce bills aimed at requiring retailers to protect consumer privacy. Now, some states […]

Maintenance and paperwork reductions add to benefits By Marisa Torrieri When the fleet you manage runs on an indoor landscape spanning 220 acres, it’s hard to keep track of who’s running what equipment. And if you have contractors from other companies working on the weekends, you might have no way of guaranteeing they have the […]

By John Edwards As the largest bicycle supplier in the United States and maker of some of the world’s best known models, there was no hiding from Wal-Mart’s RFID edict. And even though Pacific Cycle had no experience with RFID and Ed Matthews, the Wisconsin company’s director of information systems, possessed only a passing knowledge […]

Trailblazing retail giant decides to keep rolling out after successful world-famous pilot program By Stephen Barlas With the Gen 2 standard all but a reality, Metro Group, the large German retailer, is getting ready to push its pilot RFID program to a second stage. Since November, 20 consumer goods vendors have been tagging pallets destined […]

TackTrac, an affordable new equestrian security product, allows users to permanently mark their equipment with a small radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The device can be inserted into various tack equipment and provides an identification number that can be registered in an online database. TackTrac enables users to easily identify and track equipment if lost […]

Reprinted with the permission of the Smart Card Alliance Many applications are now using radio frequency (RF) chip technology to automatically identify objects or people. These applications range from tracking animals and tagging goods for inventory control to enabling fast payment and securely identifying people. While these applications all use radio waves to communicate information, […]

FDA-approved SurgiChip™ supports JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals by helping to eliminate wrong-site, wrong-patient, wrong-procedure surgeries AMTSystems announced today several new pilot programs for SurgiChip™ – the market’s first FDA-approved RFID verification system to help prevent wrong-patient, wrong-procedure and wrong-site surgeries. “With The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) reporting five to eight […]

Awards could mean $200 million in contracts By Peter A. Buxbaum WASHINGTON D.C.—Five vendors won approval to supply the U.S. military with passive tags as part of a larger program that could be worth $200 million in government contracts over the next several years. This is the first of five groups of RFID sales awards. […]

By Andy Kowl, Editor RFID Operations When Wal-Mart announced on Jan. 11 at ProMat in Chicago that 57 suppliers were then shipping RFID-tagged cases and pallets, eyebrows were raised. The retailer has been under increasing scrutiny by the growing RFID industry and the business press, with rumors of poor compliance, low read-rates and broken machines. […]

Suppliers take a variety of routes to reach the RFID destination By Gene J. Koprowski Wal-Mart flexibly managed its 2005 mandate for leading vendors to RFID-enable their containers. The retailer allowed some strategic suppliers to slip past that date, as they worked out an array of compliance problems. By the end of January, the required […]