Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. announced development of a RFID tag that can use the foil of pharmaceutical blister packs as an antenna. Leveraging Murata’s MAGICSTRAP technology the product equipped will essentially become the RFID tag. It can also be embedded or molded into products as hidden protection against counterfeiting. MAGICSTRAP, also marketed as the LXMS31 […]

Versus was recently selected to support the Bethesda Hospital’s Emergency Preparedness Partnership real-time locating system initiative, in which the Versus Advantages system was utilized during the organizations disaster preparedness drill. During the drill, as victims arrived at triage areas, they were decontaminated, triaged and assigned Versus ID badges, which communicated the patient’s location and triage […]

Digital Angel announced that through its subsidiary Destron Fearing it has been approved to supply RFID-equipped animal identification technology to support a government cattle identification program in Columbia. Destron Fearing RFID tags and DTR4 handheld readers will be used to help SINIGAN, the government organization responsible for cattle identification in Columbia, track and identify the […]

Austriamicrosystems and NXP Semiconductors announced development of a reference design incorporating RFID technology for product authentication in embedded consumer applications. The authentication system includes the AS399x ultra-high frequency RFID reader from AMS and the G2iL microcontroller from NXP, and offers password protected features, privacy commands and anti-tampering functions. Designed for applications where authentication of consumables […]

UPM Raflatac and Digilogics announced a partnership with Mexico-based retailer Common People to implement an enhanced item-level RFID solution that uses interactive sales tools to cross-sell and up-sell merchandise. All store items are tagged with UPM Raflatac ultra-high frequency RFID tags, including ShortDipole hangtags for apparel, ShortDipole tags for books and shoes, Trap tags for […]

Convergent Software announced the launch of two initial product offerings designed to comply with the new ISO 28560-2 requirements recently announced on the RFID for Libraries Support Web site. Introduced first was planning and modeling software that allows libraries to experiment with the encoding options of the new ISO 28560-2 standard by selecting and arranging […]

At this year’s AIM Expo, FEIG ELECTRONICS announced the unveil of the latest addition to its line of ultra-high frequency long-range readers. Licensed according to ETSI and FCC, the long-range reader LRU3500 has a detection range of up to 10 meters and its decoding engine reads FM0- and Miller coded return link signals for, as […]