India-based mining company, Vedanta, has partnered with EssenRFID to leverage its Xtenna vehicle tracking system for the monitoring of over 1,500 trucks entering at its Jharsuguda, Orissa site. Trucks are fitted with an EssenRFID Parka ultra high frequency tag. As the truck passes through an RFID enabled portal details of the truck are being recorded. […]

NEC Corporation announced that its Brazil headquarters has completed the initial phase of an RFID-enabled tracking and monitoring system at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Brazil. Having begun in mid-2009, NEC installed temperature control systems for refrigerators, as well as an asset location tracking system for a pilot set of 500 pieces of medical equipment. […]

A. Harvey & Co. Ltd., a supplier of support services to the offshore oil and gas industries, is employing a real-time locating system from Zebra to enhance logistic operations at its offshore marine base in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Incorporated in this solution is a real-time locating system from Zebra including RFID tags […]

GAO RFID added a 13.56 MHz RFID waterproof wrist band tag to its product collection, designed for use for attendance management in swimming pools, washing centers, saunas and other outdoor water recreational centers. The tag is compliant with the ISO 156693 standard and offers a read range of 1 cm to 10 cm. With a […]

The Live Oak Public Libraries in Savannah, Ga., have integrated automated materials handling from 3M RFID Solutions, and are considering expanding the system to its more than 18 locations. 3M’s Intelligent Return and Sorter System enable library patrons to instantly check their items in, after which the system sorts the items into bins, helping speed […]

Most cell phones today contain a SIM card, which can be swapped with the ones developed by SKT to read the radio waves emitted by the tags attached to medical supplies, whiskey and other products to ensure its authenticity. SK Telecom recently announced the development of a universal subscriber identity module, or USIM, embedded with […]

Boeing and Airbus have both made plans to use RFID technology in the near future to better track and monitor avionics and other aircraft installed parts, according to Aviation Today. Boeing’s 787 Dreamline, due for delivery by the end of the year, will use RFID tags for monitoring maintenance-significant parts. And if you recall, back […]