Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) has deployed a RFID tracking system throughout its pork processing plant, allowing it to track its product from a whole hog’s arrival at the slaughterhouse to packaged pork landing on the store shelf. Newly arrived hogs are placed on hang rails carrying RFID tags. These tags record the hog’s origin, […]

The Mulenhof museum in Munich, Germany now features an interactive multimedia exhibit based on RFID technology, thanks to a partnership between the Münster School of Business Administration and Economics and electronics producer Elatec. Using RFID tags and readers donated by Elatec, students from the school created a “Mobile Visitor Information System” (MoVIS) for the open-air […]

Wal-Mart’s five-year-old mandate for all its suppliers to adopt RFID technology has not been an overwhelming success. Just a small percentage of the mega-retailer’s 60,000 suppliers are tagging their crates and pallets as requested; on the receiving end, just over a third of Wal-Mart’s approximately 3,600 stores have implemented the technology. The plan’s failures can […]

In racing, photo finishes don’t come cheap: high speed cameras can cost upwards of $25,000, making them impractical for all but the highest levels of most motor sports. RFID tags can cost just a few dollars per competitor – some marathon officials are already using them to time their runners – but they are hard […]

Veratag, a New York-based start-up, says that a decades-old technology used in atomic microscopes can be adapted to establish a new level of security for RFID application. Micro electromechanical systems (MEMS) have been used for about 20 years by scientists measuring molecular structures. Now a new technology based on them, MEMSflakes, could replace traditional RFID […]

In this time of budget cutbacks, donations mean a lot to a college’s bottom line. That’s the premise behind Heartland Payment Systems’ Give Something Back Network that can be tied to a student’s campus card and that’s the reason Heartland was presented the Best in Payments Editor’s Choice award recently by Cards and Payments Magazine. […]

Industry trade association AIM Global marked Earth Day with an examination of environmentally-friendly RFID applications, finding that the green sector is one of the most promising segments for the RFID market. RFID is now being used in a wide array of civic environmental programs, including the monitoring of vehicle emissions, the collection of recyclable materials, […]

By Jerry Banks and Les G. Thompson, co-authors of RFID Applied It is hard to label any component of an RFID system as being more critical than any of the others. In past articles we have discussed the RFID tag, as well as, the RFID antenna hardware. Both of these fundamental pieces are integral parts […]

George Schmitt & Co., a leading producer of RFID enabled labels, has been awarded the contract for RFID-enabled baggage handling at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). The labels use Alien Technology’s Squiggle tags. HKIA operates twenty-four hours a day, and is one of the world’s busiest airports in terms of international passenger and cargo movement. […]

The demise of checks in western Europe is set to accelerate over the next few years, with around 60% of retailers no longer accepting them by 2015 as electronic cards and mobile payments gain in popularity, according to research commissioned by Visa. The Center for Retail Research – which surveyed more than 300 retailers in […]