B.O.S. Better Online Solutions Ltd. announced that it has received orders for a mobile RFID livestock identification system for a project in an African country. The B.O.S. livestock system is comprised of hardware and software, including mobile handheld devices managed by the B.O.S. ID software, RFID tags and readers, the B.O.S. RFID server and BOS […]

Greenfingers Global School, a co-educational English medium school in Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, has installed RFID technology on school grounds to record attendance and monitor student whereabouts, according to a New Delhi Television report. The school’s 850 students will wear RFID-embedded ID cards, which are captured by installed RFID readers and antenna. Once transmitted to the […]

School districts in Texas have begun monitoring students on campus by issuing identification badges equipped with RFID technology, according to the Houston Chronicle. The Spring school district in Houston has distributed the RFID-enabled badges to about 13,500 of its 36,000 students since December 2008. About 30 miles south, the Santa Fe school district began using […]

GlobeRanger Corp. announced the successful demonstration of active and passive RFID interoperability in support of the ISO 18000-7 technology for the Department of Defense. The ISO 18000-7 specification defines the air interface for RFID devices operating as an active radio frequency tag in the 433 Mhz band used in item management applications. On average, the […]

Awarepoint, a provider of real-time location solutions for health care, announced that it be participate at the RFID in Health Care East Conference, being held Oct. 12 in Philadelphia. Awarepoint customers, Texoma Medical Center and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, will present how enterprise-wide real-time location systems for hospital asset tracking is […]

Digital Angel Corporation announced that its subsidiary Destron Fearing has won a bid to supply the Servicio Nacional de Sanidade Agraria (SENASA), an agency with the Agricultural Ministry of Peru, with electronic identification equipment for the country’s official cattle ID program. The initial order includes more than 140,000 electronic identification tags, with SENASA agreeing to […]

The Commonwealth Games organizing committee has began issuing RFID tags to vehicles enabling entry inside the event’s competition venues, reports The Times of India. Sources said that the tags would make the identifying of a vehicle easier for the police, which in turn streamlines the process of entry inside the stadiums, thus saving on time […]