Cattle farmers in the Maharashtra and Thanjavur district of Tamil Nadu are using RFID technology to regulate and monitor cattle nutrition, and to create higher yield on quality milk, according to an article from The Economic Times. Overeating can lead to fatal diseases such as enterotoxaemia, but an insufficient diet can also lead to complications. […]

The Korean government stated that 50% of all its drugs will be equipped with RFID technology by 2015 to improve inventory control and reduce the number of prescription errors, according a Korea Times report. The country’s low recovery rate for second-rate drugs is currently around 20% and government officials have long considered RFID as a […]

Geared towards small and medium businesses, Socket Mobile along with 3M Track and Trace Solutions announced that it will provide a flexible, easy and secure method of tracking, locating and managing assets. The asset and inventory tracking system will consist of 3M software and Socket hardware including 3M RFID or bar code tags, the Socket […]

Motorola and Franwell Inc. are working together to provide an RFID solution at H&M Bay’s cross-docking distribution center in Federalsburg, Md. The system will assist its frozen food transportation system in meeting deadlines and maintaining industry standards on proper temperature controls. Motorola and Franwell supplied an RFID hardware and software solution that would locate and […]

Upstate New York-based Adirondack Trust Company is now offering Bling Nation’s mobile payments system to its customers and community. Customers with a checking account at Adirondack Trust can now sign up for a BlingTag, a quarter-sized sticker that is applied to the back of their mobile phone to enable mobile payments. Customers can also use […]

MIKOH announced a five-year partnership contract, with a five-year option, to implement a national electronic vehicle registration system in Thailand. The system, which MIKOH officials say will go live during the second half of 2010, will employ Destruct-on-Removal RFID Smart&Secure EVR tags, RFID decals and RFID readers. MIKOH Smart&Secure RFID tags provide the certainty that […]

Destron Fearing, a subsidiary of Digital Angel, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for its passive integrated transponder fish-monitoring RFID tags. In Pacific Northwest region, the U. S. federal agencies will utilize Destron’s PIT technology in conjunction RFID antennas to monitor salmonid – salmon, whitefish, and trout – movement […]

The Prescott Public Library in Arizona has an easier means of sorting returned books, DVDs, and other loaned items, all with the use of RFID, reports The Prescott Daily Courier. An automated sorter, with RFID technology provided by Tech Logic, reads tags placed on each returned item that is dropped into the return bins. It […]

I.D. Systems announced that it has been awarded patents 7,656,271 and 7,656,273 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, covering, respectively, a system for controlling access to mobile assets, and a mobile portal for tracking the movement of luggage. The mobile portal for tracking luggage describes baggage handling vehicles equipped with both a RFID reader […]

Some 30 gold mines throughout South America are anticipated to use an RFID solution from PlasmaTech to increase worker safety and emergency response in the event of an industrial accident requiring evacuation. Each worker entering the mine wears an RFID tag, which enable installed fixed readers to gather data and wireless transmit it to a […]