Chip supplier INSIDE Contactless, headquartered in Aix-en-Provence, France, and FASVER, a French supplier of security films used in passports and other documents, last year got together to create a new way of producing passports, one that is extremely fraud- and counterfeit-proof. Called smartFilm™, it is designed to protect biodata on official documents, and is simply […]

Bruce Foods will implement industry-leading RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), Transportation and Warehouse Management Solutions from RedPrairie Corporation, a global leader in supply chain technology solutions that drive business process transformation. As a top supplier to Wal-Mart and other major food retailers, Bruce Foods will leverage RedPrairie’s RFID Igniter(TM) to comply with RFID shipping mandates. They […]

“Consider the following scenario: Walking down a street, you spot a poster advertising that you can buy your favorite artist’s new single right then and there. All you have to do is hold your mobile phone up close to the poster, and the song downloads directly to the phone–which also happens to be a digital […]

“Bill Parks and I received the first patent for a passive, read-write RFID tag. In 1969, I was the corporate planning officer to the president and chairman of Communications Satellite Corp. (Comsat). In the spring of 1969, I conceived of the RFID concept to rectify a number of problems with the CARTRAK optical system for […]

“Mexico’s top federal prosecutors and investigators began receiving chip implants in their arms in November in order to get access to restricted areas inside the attorney general’s headquarters, said Antonio Aceves, general director of Solusat, the company that distributes the microchips in Mexico.” “The chips that have been implanted are manufactured by VeriChip Corp., a […]

“The rights and wrongs of using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags on humans have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be chipping children in one primary school.“ And from the Guardian: “Alarmed […]

By Kristine Blackburn and Patrick McGuane, Allsafe Technologies At card manufacturing leader, Allsafe, we believe that the key to success is flexibility. By this, we mean both ‘flexibility’ in terms of what we offer customers and in turn, ‘flexibility’ providing the watchword of how we tool our organization to meet changing customer demands as unlimited […]

By Philippe Held, Sokymat SA The laundry industry is constantly progressing in the automation of its processes. Contactless and RFID technologies are enabling it to achieve the next level of automation, leading to the creation of the “intelligent laundry cycle.” The technology offers significant advantages with regards to other identification techniques adopted by the laundry […]

< ? $key="5729"; ?> The promise of RFID rests on two technologies: the physical recognition provided by tags and the network infrastructure necessary to make automatic identification worthwhile. EPCglobal has chosen a familiar but controversial company to develop the underlying EPC Network technology, Internet titan VeriSign. This second issue of RFID News details the organization […]

EPCglobal’s adoption of tag specifications is paralleled by the construction of a vast item tracking infrastructure. The EPC Network is designed to allow RFID users to share information about the condition and transit of goods as they move through the supply chain. The system allows trading partners to share some or all data gathered by […]