The Track and Trace Solutions division of 3M Corporation has announced the deployment of its RFID Tracking System at a U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) base. The USMC base in Hawaii is using the solution at its Installation Personnel Administration Center (IPAC) to manage the base’s more than 8,000 personnel records, increasing efficiency in both the […]

Austrian RFID specialist RF-iT Solutions has partnered with medical devices company Biolitec AG to provide RFID-based middleware for biolitec’s laser systems. The system, called You-R Secure, ensures that doctors are unable to accidentally reuse the probes used in the minimally invasive procedures performed by the laser devices. With the You-R Secure system, based on RF-iT […]

Art Channel Galleries, a direct-marketing firm specializing in the collectible art and sports memorabilia markets, has announced plans to deploy RFID technology for authenticating its products. The company has completed the purchase of an RFID software and hardware package, and plans to begin integrating new RFID tracking and authentication software into its enterprise software system. […]

Despite the recent global economic slowdown, ABI Research remains optimistic about the growth prospects for the RFID industry over the coming months. The latest report by the industrial analysis firm predicts an 11% growth in the RFID market by the end of 2010. The glaring weak spot in the otherwise positive outlook is the depressed […]

CenTrak, a provider of RTLS systems for the indoor tracking of equipment and people, has debuted its IT-740 Staff Badge, touted by the firm as the world’s thinnest hybrid active RFID tag currently on the market. Measuring in at a thickness of only 3 millimeters, the badges are nearly as thin as ordinary, non-RFID enabled […]

RedPrairie Corporation, a provider of productivity software solutions, has announced it will provide mobile label printing and RFID execution applications in its warehouse management solution. The solution, which enables individual warehouse workers to encode and tag shipments, supports the Zebra P4T Series mobile thermal transfer RFID printer/encoder, as well as other printing solutions. Mobile RFID […]

Better Online Solutions (BOS), an Israel-based RFID solutions provider, has announced the release of its BOSwine 1.0 tracking solution, an RFID-based platform for monitoring the life cycle of pigs. The system offers pig farmers the ability to better track developments in their herds, including preventative treatment for diseases such as the swine flu. The BOSwine […]

CPI Card Group received two Élan awards and five finalist positions at the 2009 ICMA Annual EXPO. The awards recognize the latest advancements and achievements in card design throughout the industry. Entries were judged on the card’s features and were not identified by company. Delegates attending the Expo selected the People’s Choice Award winners. CPI’s […]

China-based Invengo Technology Corporation, developer of a range of RFID products from inlays to reader modules, has named Can/U.S. Enviro-RFID as its North American distributor. Under the terms of the agreement, Can/U.S. Enviro-RFID, which bills itself as the continent’s only dedicated value-added RFID solutions distributor, will serve as Invengo’s sole channel to serve its North […]

Three major players in the RFID industry, UPM Raflatac, Impinj, and Zebra Technologies, have announced their collaboration on an RFID-enabled product concept. The newly available concept attempts to optimize item-level tagging and validation for process-intensive industries, including electronics and retail manufacturing, health care and pharmaceuticals and third-party logistics. The collaborative effort offers users the ability […]