If you want standards, go to the body that has one of the best track records at developing them. Thirty years ago the Uniform Code Council (UCC) created standards around the barcode for consumer products. Now, it’s beginning to have the same impact on RFID standards through EPCglobal. Created just last year (September, 2003), EPCglobal, […]

The field deployment of RFID tags has been accelerated by last September’s EPC standards announcement by EPCglobal and Wal-Mart’s tagging mandates. But the EPC is important beyond its use in RFID tags: the “Internet of Things” can and should include intangible things. And the information architecture intended to make an RFID tagging scheme practical will […]

Legislation that would regulate RFID use continues to pop up in a handful of states, likely spurred by one lawmaker’s efforts in California. No state has yet passed and had signed into law legislation that would limit how RFID can be used. But Sen. Debra Bowen, a California Democrat, has had the most success. A […]

WebVTS, JSA Technologies’ flagship product, is a key way to generate revenues for colleges and universities that use it as part of their campus card program. It enables students and parents to revalue card accounts via the web, bringing more dollars into play. And, if students have more to spend, they…well, they spend it. “We […]

H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Company, the seventh largest pharmaceutical wholesaler, and Matrics Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of EPC-compliant Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, today announced that H.D. Smith is the first wholesaler to install an EPC RFID system to track controlled substance pharmaceuticals in their distribution center. According to Liz […]

Cypak AB, a leading developer of low cost computing technologies, will be demonstrating its latest innovations at CeBIT 2004 in Germany. The Swedish technology company has created the world s first disposable paperboard computer by integrating innovative microelectronics and printable sensors into paperboard. Cypak will demonstrate this unique technology in the product form of intelligent […]

Last week, we reported that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had awarded a major contract to Accenture to provide support for the US-VISIT program. The program is intended to better secure entry and exit at ports of entry and enforce the visa and immigration policies–including those that will add new technologies (e.g. biometrics, contactless) […]

The UK-based vehicle licence plate manufacturer, Hills Numberplates Ltd, has chosen long-range RFID tags and readers from Identec Solutions to be embedded in licence plates that will automatically and reliably identify vehicles in the UK. The new e-Plates project uses active (battery powered) RFID tags embedded in the plates to identify vehicles in real time. […]

Attaching a small contactless tag to an item of clothing enables garment rental companies and laundries to better keep track of items throughout their lifecycle. The chip is embedded inside a heat- and chemical-resistant token such that it can withstand frequent laundering and abuse. Sokymat has offered contactless laundry tags in the past, but this […]

The indoor positioning solutions firm, Radianse Inc., has teamed up with St. Croix Systems (developer of the ‘WOSYST’ clinical engineering software for asset management) in a non-exclusive development partnership to integrate Radianse’s active RFID technology into WOSYST for the real-time tracking and management of medical devices. An indoor positioning system (IPS) provides an indoor equivalent […]