Prisons are becoming safer places thanks to a new RFID based tracking program. More than 10 years in the making, one such system has its roots in technology originally developed by Motorola for the U.S. Department of Defense. Now licensed by Technology Systems International, the TSI PRISM solution grants wardens ubiquitous, mandatory and real time […]

The Saturn 5000 Reader developed by On Track Innovations is part of the Smart System Technologies’ PowerPay contactless solution (see related story) that is showing up in U.S. sports stadiums and which allows consumers to pay concessionaries with RFID-enabled tags. OTI and SST Signs VAR Agreement to Deploy OTI’S Contactless Payment Readers in Sports Venues […]

One by one, the advantages of contact chip cards over their contactless counterparts are being chopped off at the knees. Add another to the list. A PC/SC Driver from Inside Contactless enables its Accesso™ USB reader to function like a contact chip reader when attached to a PC. Why is this so remarkable? Because it […]

” The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded $615,000 to the state Agriculture Department for a pilot study to track cattle using radio frequency identification, or RFID, tags attached to the ear. Pennsylvania is one of 29 states participating in the 12-month study. State Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolf said the technology promises to allow animal […]

“Another project of particular interest was the interaction of RFID tags between a cellular device and a wearable personal accessory, such as a wristwatch or bracelet. The wristwatch is embedded with an RFID reader. When someone picks up an object with an RFID tag in the physical world, such as a book, the wristwatch reads […]

RFID Journal – Self-Checkout Gets RFID Upgrade “To demonstrate how RFID tags on individual products can speed customers through checkouts, retailing technology provider NCR has installed an RFID-enabled self-checkout register at Metro Group’s RFID Innovation Center in Neuss-Norf, Germany. To create what NCR says is the world’s first self-checkout solution with an integrated RFID reader, […]

“[Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs’] Radio Frequency Identity and Geometry (RFIG) system consists of a hand-held projector that shines dynamic images onto physical objects of the user’s preference, and radio frequency identification tags augmented with photosensors, which identify objects for the projector. Radio frequency identification tags contain tiny, inexpensive chips that are read using radio waves. […]

“The company redesigned the tag so it could be attached to the inside of a vehicle’s windshield and developed readers for roadside placement. Using RFID in electronic vehicle identification promises to support a range of applications both for government and local authorities and for businesses. The technology is being considered for electronic vehicle licensing, traffic, […]

“This clever “challenge-response” system is also at the base of the Mobil Speedpass system: it’s what makes the Speedpass radio frequency identification (RFID) tag so difficult to clone. Other RFID systems don’t use challenge-response, which makes attacking them comparatively easy.“

“The Federal Drug Administration issued a ruling Tuesday that essentially begins a final review process that will determine whether hospitals can use RFID systems from the Palm Beach, Fla.-based company to identify patients and/or permit relevant hospital staff to access medical records, said Angela Fulcher, vice president of marketing and sales at VeriChip.”