Advanced ID Corporation will produce a minimum of 2 million RFID tags, along with an unspecified number of readers, for major Chinese tire manufacturer Qingdao Mesnac. The deal will make Mesnac the world’s first tire maker to the world’s first tire manufacturer to commit to embedding RFID tire tags in a commercial truck line. Mesnac […]

Sunnyvale, Calif., company Mu-Gahat officially launched today by announcing its “revolutionary custom RFID inlay design service, low-volume production minimums, and stock inlay line.” “Label converters, integrators, design engineers, and frustrated end-users have needed a solution for rapid prototyping and low-medium volume RFID production for quite some time,” said Baxter Watkins, CEO. “Our research showed that […]

Representatives of the European R&D institute Holst Centre say their 64 bit, inductively coupled, passive RFID tag has achieved a record 78 bit per seconds data readout. This represents a five-fold increase in bit-rate performance over plastic RFIDs, and could help pave the way for low-cost, high-volume RFID tags to replace bar codes in retail […]

Precision Dynamics Corporation’s new RFID wristband, announced today, offers its users the chance to make fun shapes. And that’s not all. The Smart SuperBand with Custom Shapes RFID wristband helps amusement parks, casinos and other similar operations greater security against counterfeits and exclusive branding options for venue management and identification. www.pdcorp.com/smartband Precision Dynamics Corporation Introduces […]

Cardinal Health, a global provider of products and services that improve the safety and productivity of health care, today announced an agreement with ClearCount Medical Solutions to distribute the first system cleared by the Food and Drug Administration that integrates both counting and detection for sponge management during surgeries. “Technologically advanced hospitals have been seeking […]

Austroads, the Australian transit and traffic authority, has formed a multi-state licencing and registration task force to explore the use of RFID tags on vehicles to improve identification and reduce crime. Some proponents of the technology hope it could be used to increase revenue by using fixed and portable scanners that could detect whether cars […]

iDTRONIC today introduced two new AXR200 RFID Desktop Readers for reading and writing of both LF and HF transponders. The new Desktop Reader/Writer “combines a very modern design with high functionality,” according to the company, which develops and sells RFID hardware components. Its product portfolio includes ISO cards, keyfobs, tags, RFID readers, mobile and handheld […]

New Passport Card introduces new technology, new set of issues By Zack Martin, Editor Another type of travel document has joined the fray: the Passport Card. The ID card is being touted as an alternative to the traditional passport book, but is an additional technology that customs and border officials will have to be prepared […]

Purchase jumpstarts payment processor’s entry into the college and university market By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor The recently announced purchase of campus card supplier General Meters Corp. (GMC) by payments processors, Heartland Payment Systems, has likely delivered the resources the small company needed to stay competitive. Heartland’s campus card appetite was first whetted with its […]

San Diego, Calif., company Awarepoint Corporation, a provider of active RFID real-time location system solutions to the healthcare market, announced today it has been granted U.S. Patent No. 7,324,824. The patent covers Awarepoint’s mesh network plug-in sensor appliance and describes the use of a plug-in network appliance to perform a bridge between two wireless communication […]